Florida · Senate Bill 16 · 2025 Special Session A

Combatting Illegal Immigration

  1. Introduced Jan 26, 2025
  2. In committee  
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Mar 31, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Combatting Illegal Immigration; Prohibiting licensed money services businesses from initiating foreign remittance transfers unless they have verified that the sender is not an unauthorized alien; defining the term “foreign remittance transfer”; requiring the Financial Services Commission to adopt certain rules; requiring that licensees make, keep, and preserve for 5 years records of certain documentation and penalties paid; authorizing the Office of Financial Regulation of the commission to request, and requiring licensees to provide, records of certain documentation, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. SenateDied, not introduced

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.