Florida · House Bill 279 · 2026 Regular Session

Luggage for Children Placed in Out-of-home Care

HB 279 Sponsored by Robin Bartleman and Lindsay Cross Died in committee

  1. Introduced Oct 28, 2025
  2. In committee Nov 4, 2025
  3. Passed the House  
  4. Passed the Senate  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2026

What it does

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

Luggage for Children Placed in Out-of-home Care; Requires DCF to provide certain children with piece of luggage for certain purposes; provides department requirements; requires department to submit specified annual report to Legislature; provides sources of funding for distribution of pieces of luggage; requires department's direct-support organization to receive & use certain funding to administer law.

Every action

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

  1. HouseFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Human Services Subcommittee · House Human Services Subcommittee
  3. CommitteeReferred to Health Care Budget Subcommittee · House Health Care Budget Subcommittee
  4. CommitteeReferred to Health & Human Services Committee · House Health & Human Services Committee
  5. CommitteeNow in Human Services Subcommittee · House Human Services Subcommittee
  6. House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  7. CommitteeDied in Human Services Subcommittee · House Human Services Subcommittee

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The 2 members who introduced it, joined by 4 cosponsors: 4 Democrats.

All 4 cosponsors

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.