Emergency Alerts
- Introduced Dec 9, 2025
- In committee Dec 16, 2025
- Passed the Senate
- Passed the House
- To the governor
- Became law Oct 1, 2026
What it does
The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.
Emergency Alerts; Requiring a local law enforcement agency to activate the emergency alert system and issue a Ya Ya Alert to public and private schools and child care facilities under certain circumstances; requiring local law enforcement agencies to create and maintain a list of such schools and facilities within their jurisdictions; providing immunity from civil liability to certain persons for damages for…
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Emergency Alerts; Requiring a local law enforcement agency to activate the emergency alert system and issue a Ya Ya Alert to public and private schools and child care facilities under certain circumstances; requiring local law enforcement agencies to create and maintain a list of such schools and facilities within their jurisdictions; providing immunity from civil liability to certain persons for damages for complying in good faith with specified provisions; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement, in cooperation with specified departments, to activate the emergency alert system and issue an Imminent Threat Alert at the request of a local law enforcement agency under certain circumstances, etc.
Every action
4 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.
- SenateFiled
- CommitteeReferred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy · Senate Criminal Justice
- SenateIntroduced
- CommitteeDied in Criminal Justice · Senate Criminal Justice
Roll calls
No recorded votes on this bill yet.
Sponsors
The member who introduced it, joined by 2 cosponsors: 2 Democrats.
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Shevrin D. "Shev" JonesD Primary sponsor · District 34
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.