Florida · Senate Bill 1040 · 2025 Regular Session

Homelessness

SB 1040 Sponsored by Carlos Guillermo Smith Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 24, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 3, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  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.

Homelessness; Citing this act as the “Homeless Persons Dignity Act”; prohibiting the denial or abridgment of a person’s ability to access public services solely because he or she is homeless; providing that a person experiencing homelessness has specified rights; authorizing a court to award certain relief, damages, and attorney fees and costs to a prevailing plaintiff in certain civil actions, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Community Affairs; Fiscal Policy · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  5. CommitteeDied in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.