Florida · House Bill 985 · 2025 Regular Session

Deferred Compensation Plans for Public Employees

HB 985 Sponsored by Juan Carlos Porras Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 24, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 2, 2025
  3. Passed the House  
  4. Passed the Senate  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Deferred Compensation Plans for Public Employees ; Authorizes that certain employees' payable compensation be deducted & contributed to deferred compensation plan through automatic enrollment arrangement unless employee makes certain election; requires that automatic enrollment arrangement be established with default contribution rate; authorizes periodic reenrollment of specified government employees; authorizes…

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Deferred Compensation Plans for Public Employees ; Authorizes that certain employees' payable compensation be deducted & contributed to deferred compensation plan through automatic enrollment arrangement unless employee makes certain election; requires that automatic enrollment arrangement be established with default contribution rate; authorizes periodic reenrollment of specified government employees; authorizes periodic resetting of contribution rates for specified government employees; requires that automatic enrollment arrangement provide employees ability to make certain elections regarding contributions; requires that plan provide for default investment into which contributions must be placed under specified circumstance; authorizes counties, municipalities, political subdivisions, & constitutional county officers to adopt automatic enrollment arrangements for specified deferred compensation programs; provides that deferred compensation plan may only include automatic enrollment arrangement upon approval of Legislature; authorizes that certain automatic deferrals be made by payroll deduction; requires that certain deduction of wages or salary of employees be treated in specified manner.

Every action

7 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. HouseFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Government Operations Subcommittee · House Government Operations Subcommittee
  3. CommitteeReferred to State Affairs Committee · House State Affairs Committee
  4. CommitteeNow in Government Operations Subcommittee · House Government Operations Subcommittee
  5. House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  6. HouseIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  7. CommitteeDied in Government Operations Subcommittee · House Government Operations Subcommittee

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.