Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sexual Offenders and Sexual Predators"
+description: "Sexual Offenders and Sexual Predators; Revising residency restrictions for persons convicted of certain sexual offenses occurring on or after a specified date; revising the prohibition of specified offenders from coming within a specified distance of a place where children congregate; requiring a person who has been convicted of specified offenses to provide notice to a school or child care facility under certain circumstances; authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person if a law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe the person committed specified offenses, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 212"
+citation: "Florida SB 212 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2026-17"
+primary_sponsors: ["Judiciary", "McClain"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-10-16"
+last_action: "2026-04-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c3543e8-4039-4eb8-b37b-8af08996b1db"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/212/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "cdbc7da5518717be38358d8a878474257f35b0d4b4a7c6e2e8d9cdc3dcab24a2"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida SB 212 (2026) — Sexual Offenders and Sexual Predators
+
+Sexual Offenders and Sexual Predators; Revising residency restrictions for persons convicted of certain sexual offenses occurring on or after a specified date; revising the prohibition of specified offenders from coming within a specified distance of a place where children congregate; requiring a person who has been convicted of specified offenses to provide notice to a school or child care facility under certain circumstances; authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person if a law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe the person committed specified offenses, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-17.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 212 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/212/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 212 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/212/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 212 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/212/BillText/c2/HTML)
+4. **S 212 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/212/BillText/c3/HTML)
+5. **S 212 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/212/BillText/e1/HTML)
+6. **S 212 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/212/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **31–6** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **103–9** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–1** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–1** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–5** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Criminal Justice — primary (organization)
+- Judiciary — primary (person)
+- McClain — primary (person)
+- Rules — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-10-16** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-11-03** Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2026-01-15** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/20/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2026-01-20** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 1
+- **2026-01-21** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2026-01-22** Now in Judiciary
+- **2026-01-22** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
+- **2026-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
+- **2026-02-10** CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 1
+- **2026-02-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2026-02-12** Now in Rules
+- **2026-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/17/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
+- **2026-02-17** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 5
+- **2026-02-18** CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
+- **2026-02-19** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2026-02-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2026-02-19** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
+- **2026-02-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
+- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-26** Amendment(s) adopted (786080)
+- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 31 NAYS 6 `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
+- **2026-02-26** In Messages
+- **2026-03-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
+- **2026-03-10** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 103, NAYS 9 `passage`
+- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2026-03-30** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-31** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-01** Chapter No. 2026-17
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c3543e8-4039-4eb8-b37b-8af08996b1db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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