Florida · Senate Bill 1554 · 2025 Regular Session

Public Safety

SB 1554 Sponsored by Jay Collins Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 27, 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 Safety; Citing this act as the “Florida First Responder and Florida Public Safety Act”; establishing a Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Unit within the Department of Law Enforcement; prohibiting first responder employment discrimination; providing for a unified 911 system for every county-level first responder agency by a specified date; requiring a 911 call center to dispatch the closest unit to an emergency regardless of jurisdiction; creating the Florida Medal of Valor and the Florida Blue/Red Heart Medal, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy · Senate Criminal Justice
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  5. CommitteeDied in Criminal Justice, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 421 (Ch. 2025-9 ), CS/CS/CS/HB 1371 (Ch. 2025-176 ) · Senate Criminal Justice

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.