Political Advertisements by Governmental Officials
- Introduced Feb 19, 2025
- In committee Feb 28, 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.
Political Advertisements by Governmental Officials; Citing this act as the “Broadcast Freedom Protection Act”; prohibiting elected and appointed officials from using or threatening to use their official authority, position, and influence to compel, coerce, induce, or intimidate broadcasters to air or refrain from airing certain political advertisements; prohibiting such officials from threatening to withhold or…
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Political Advertisements by Governmental Officials; Citing this act as the “Broadcast Freedom Protection Act”; prohibiting elected and appointed officials from using or threatening to use their official authority, position, and influence to compel, coerce, induce, or intimidate broadcasters to air or refrain from airing certain political advertisements; prohibiting such officials from threatening to withhold or promise to grant state funding, permits, or other benefits to such broadcasters or initiating or threatening regulatory action, investigations, or audits against such broadcasters; providing criminal and administrative penalties, etc.
Every action
5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
- SenateFiled
- CommitteeReferred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules · Senate Ethics and Elections
- SenateIntroduced
- SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- CommitteeDied in Ethics and Elections · Senate Ethics and Elections
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.