Florida · Senate Bill 956 · 2025 Regular Session

Candidate Qualifying

SB 956 Sponsored by Mack Bernard Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 21, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 28, 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.

Candidate Qualifying ; Authorizing a candidate to pay the filing fee by a debit card linked to the candidate’s campaign account; revising the timeframe during which a candidate may pay a filing fee if the initial payment is rejected by a bank, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules · Senate Ethics and Elections
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  5. CommitteeDied in Ethics and Elections · Senate Ethics and Elections

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

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.