---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Safety"
description: "School Safety; Revising the Chris Hixon, Coach Aaron Feis, and Coach Scott Beigel Guardian Program to include child care facilities; requiring a sheriff to establish a guardian program under certain circumstances; revising firearm requirements for school guardians and school security guards; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to convene a workgroup of specified entities; requiring specified school safety requirements to be implemented during specified time periods, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1470"
citation: "Florida SB 1470 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["judicial branch", "t"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-58"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/179f07d6-2526-439d-8058-8ac260809827"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1470/ByCategory"
source_hash: "120f5c62b629a300170facde15b6a8260e947b9718caae7a1e02d4e67562762e"
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 1470 (2025) — School Safety

School Safety; Revising the Chris Hixon, Coach Aaron Feis, and Coach Scott Beigel Guardian Program to include child care facilities; requiring a sheriff to establish a guardian program under certain circumstances; revising firearm requirements for school guardians and school security guards; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to convene a workgroup of specified entities; requiring specified school safety requirements to be implemented during specified time periods, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-58.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 1470 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1470/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1470 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1470/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1470 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1470/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1470 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1470/BillText/e2/HTML)
5. **S 1470 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1470/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education — primary (organization)
- Burgess — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-26** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-11** Favorable by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Now in Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education
- **2025-03-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education, 03/24/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-24** CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-26** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-26** CS by Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education read 1st time
- **2025-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-02** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment(s) adopted (777016)
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 856085 adopted
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 110, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In returning messages
- **2025-05-01** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (856085)
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-19** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Chapter No. 2025-58

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/179f07d6-2526-439d-8058-8ac260809827`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).