Restoration of Voting Rights

What it does

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

Restoration of Voting Rights; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database containing certain information for a certain purpose; requiring the Department of Management Services, acting through the Florida Digital Service, to provide certain technical assistance to the commission; providing that a person who takes certain actions in reasonable reliance on the database has an affirmative right to register and to vote and may not be charged with certain violations of criminal law, etc.

Every action

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

1. Oct 8, 2025SenateFiled
2. Oct 21, 2025CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy · Senate Criminal Justice
3. Jan 13, 2026SenateIntroduced
4. Jan 21, 2026CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/26/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building · Senate Criminal Justice
5. Jan 26, 2026CommitteeFavorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 · Senate Criminal Justice7–0 vote
6. Jan 27, 2026CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice · Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
7. Jan 30, 2026CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 37 Senate Building · Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
8. Feb 4, 2026CommitteeCS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 · Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice8–0 vote
9. Feb 6, 2026SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
10. Feb 6, 2026CommitteeNow in Fiscal Policy · Senate Fiscal Policy
11. Feb 10, 2026CommitteeCS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time · Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
12. Mar 13, 2026CommitteeDied in Fiscal Policy · Senate Fiscal Policy

Roll calls

2 recorded votes: 0 on the floor, 2 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

• Tina Scott PolskyD Primary sponsor · District 30
• AC Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Sponsoring committee