Florida · Senate Bill 688 · 2025 Regular Session
Canine Support Grant Program for First Responders
- Introduced Feb 12, 2025
- In committee Feb 25, 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.
Citing this act as the “Canine Heroes for First Responders Act”; defining the term “State Fire Marshal”; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement and the State Fire Marshal to establish and jointly administer the grant program; providing support dog requirements, etc.
Every action
6 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
- SenateFiled
- CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy · Senate Criminal Justice
- SenateIntroduced
- CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/11/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed · Senate Criminal Justice
- SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- CommitteeDied in Criminal Justice · Senate Criminal Justice
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it.
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Jay CollinsR Primary sponsor · District 14
From Florida's official records (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.