---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foreign and Alien Bail Bond Insurers"
description: "Foreign and Alien Bail Bond Insurers; Provides duties of certain foreign & alien bail bond insurers relating to reporting bail bond premiums to OIR, keeping records of considerations paid for bail bonds written by insurers, & disclosing certain information in financial statements filed with office."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 271"
citation: "Florida HB 271 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-61"
primary_sponsors: ["Valdés"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-10-28"
last_action: "2026-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4264520e-4ba4-4f18-bb42-1800016c6c70"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/271/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9e86290ebe6b884e7331dc8f5b90fc22754558d42e995332032569e2d47172cb"
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 HB 271 (2026) — Foreign and Alien Bail Bond Insurers

Foreign and Alien Bail Bond Insurers; Provides duties of certain foreign & alien bail bond insurers relating to reporting bail bond premiums to OIR, keeping records of considerations paid for bail bonds written by insurers, & disclosing certain information in financial statements filed with office.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-61.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 271 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/271/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 271 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/271/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **107–1** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Commerce Committee) — **22–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valdés — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-11-04** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-04** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-04** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-01-27** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2026-01-29** Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-29** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2026-01-29** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2026-01-30** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2026-02-03** Favorable by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2026-02-03** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2026-02-03** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/17/2026)
- **2026-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Passed; YEAS 107, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2026-02-17** In Messages
- **2026-02-18** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18** Received `enrolled`
- **2026-03-06** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2026-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-03-06** Substituted for SB 642
- **2026-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-06** Passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-06** In Messages
- **2026-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-30** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-07** Chapter No. 2026-61

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4264520e-4ba4-4f18-bb42-1800016c6c70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).