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

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type: "Bill"
title: "Felony Battery"
description: "Felony Battery; Revising the definition of “prison releasee reoffender” to include a defendant who commits or attempts to commit battery on a law enforcement officer which results in bodily injury; providing enhanced criminal penalties for persons who commit a second or subsequent battery after having a prior conviction for resisting an officer with violence, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 436"
citation: "Florida SB 436 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-149"
primary_sponsors: ["Leek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-11-07"
last_action: "2026-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77438478-adb1-4787-a445-de873a9dd843"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/436/ByCategory"
source_hash: "aab3ddb98715b37ed833cc31876e6a7b4b17552c2df246fb0b4895f381bc8819"
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 436 (2026) — Felony Battery
Felony Battery; Revising the definition of “prison releasee reoffender” to include a defendant who commits or attempts to commit battery on a law enforcement officer which results in bodily injury; providing enhanced criminal penalties for persons who commit a second or subsequent battery after having a prior conviction for resisting an officer with violence, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-149.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 436 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/436/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 436 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/436/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 436 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/436/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 436 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/436/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **230** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1101** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Criminal Justice — primary (organization)
- Leek — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-11-07** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-01** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/12/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-12** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2026-01-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-13** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2026-01-14** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2026-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/18/26, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-02-18** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-19** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-19** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/24/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-19** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2026-02-24** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-26** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 110, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-17** Chapter No. 2026-149
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77438478-adb1-4787-a445-de873a9dd843`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).