Florida · Senate Bill 1416 · 2025 Regular Session

Election Dates for Municipal Office

  1. Introduced Feb 26, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 6, 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.

Election Dates for Municipal Office; Requiring that elections for municipal offices be held on the same date as the general election; preempting to the state the authority to establish election dates for municipal elections; requiring that municipal recall elections be held concurrently with municipal elections under certain conditions; repealing provisions relating to change of dates for cause in municipal elections, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Ethics and Elections; Community Affairs; Rules · Senate Ethics and Elections
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 03/31/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building · Senate Ethics and Elections
  5. CommitteeFavorable by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 · Senate Ethics and Elections8–0 vote
  6. CommitteeNow in Community Affairs · Senate Community Affairs
  7. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  8. CommitteeDied in Community Affairs · Senate Community Affairs

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

DateWhereQuestionResult
Mar 31, 2025 Senate Ethics and Elections Favorable by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
Members

Yes · 8

Not voting · 1

8–0

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.