Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program

What it does

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

Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program; Citing this act as the "Hunger-Free Campus Act"; establishing, subject to legislative appropriation, the pilot program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified period; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to identify the three state universities or Florida College System institutions with the highest percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students for participation in the pilot program; providing requirements for participating universities and institutions, etc.

Every action

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

1. Nov 17, 2025SenateFiled
2. Dec 1, 2025CommitteeReferred to Agriculture; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy · Senate Agriculture
3. Jan 8, 2026CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 01/13/26, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building · Senate Agriculture
4. Jan 13, 2026CommitteeFavorable by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 · Senate Agriculture4–0 vote
5. Jan 13, 2026CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government · Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
6. Jan 13, 2026SenateIntroduced
7. Mar 13, 2026CommitteeDied in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government · Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 1 cosponsor: 1 Democrat.

• Mack BernardD Primary sponsor · District 24