Immigration and State-issued Identification
- Introduced Feb 28, 2025
- In committee Mar 7, 2025
- Passed the Senate
- Passed the House
- To the governor
- Became law Jul 1, 2025
What it does
The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.
Immigration and State-issued Identification; Citing this act as the “Florida Economic Prosperity and Immigration Act”; establishing the Office for New Americans in the Department of Commerce; deleting a provision authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to require applicants to produce certain documents from the United States Department of Homeland Security for certain purposes; deleting a…
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Immigration and State-issued Identification; Citing this act as the “Florida Economic Prosperity and Immigration Act”; establishing the Office for New Americans in the Department of Commerce; deleting a provision authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to require applicants to produce certain documents from the United States Department of Homeland Security for certain purposes; deleting a requirement for certain private employers to use the E-Verify system; prohibiting a person or entity from discriminating against an individual because the individual holds or presents a driver license that does not comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005, etc.
Every action
5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
- SenateFiled
- CommitteeReferred to Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy · Senate Commerce and Tourism
- SenateIntroduced
- SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- CommitteeDied in Commerce and Tourism · Senate Commerce and Tourism
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it.
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Carlos Guillermo SmithD Primary sponsor · District 17
From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.