Florida · Senate Bill 1434 · 2025 Regular Session

Public Records

SB 1434 Sponsored by Darryl Ervin Rouson Died in committee

  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.

Public Records; Revising the definition of the term “actual cost of duplication”; providing that it is a violation of ch. 119, F.S., to fail to acknowledge a public record request promptly and in good faith; prohibiting an agency from asserting that a record was exempt or confidential and exempt under specified circumstances; defining the term “any electronic medium stored, maintained, or used by an agency”; providing a civil penalty for persons who violate provisions related to accessing public records, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy · Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  5. CommitteeDied in Governmental Oversight and Accountability · Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability

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.