Florida · House Bill 55 · 2026 Regular Session

Treatment of Inmates

HB 55 Sponsored by Dianne "Ms Dee" Hart-Lowman Died in committee

  1. Introduced Sep 29, 2025
  2. In committee Oct 7, 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.

Treatment of Inmates; Specifies rights of inmates in state correctional system; requires written copy of rights to be provided to each inmate; authorizes relief for deprivation of rights; revises definition of "permanently incapacitated inmate" for purposes of conditional medical release.

Every action

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

  1. HouseFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee · House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  3. CommitteeReferred to Justice Budget Subcommittee · House Justice Budget Subcommittee
  4. CommitteeReferred to Judiciary Committee · House Judiciary Committee
  5. CommitteeNow in Criminal Justice Subcommittee · House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
  6. House1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  7. CommitteeDied in Criminal Justice Subcommittee · House Criminal Justice Subcommittee

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

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

All 2 cosponsors

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.