Florida · Senate Bill 700 · 2026 Regular Session

States of Emergency

SB 700 Sponsored by Carlos Guillermo Smith Died in committee

  1. Introduced Dec 2, 2025
  2. In committee Dec 16, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  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.

States of Emergency; Providing that a state of emergency renewed by the Governor expires within a specified timeframe; authorizing the Legislature to extend the state of emergency under specified circumstances; requiring the Governor to immediately issue a certain executive order or proclamation consistent with the Legislature’s concurrent resolution terminating a state of emergency; requiring the Auditor General to update quarterly a specified audit, rather than annually, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Rules · Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. CommitteeDied in Governmental Oversight and Accountability · Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

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