---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel"
description: "Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel; Citing this act as the \"Officer Jason Raynor Act\"; revising a prohibition on the use or threatened use of force to resist arrest or detention; providing for enhanced punishment for manslaughter when committed against specified officers; revising provisions concerning assault or battery upon specified officers and other personnel; revising a provision concerning resisting, obstructing, or opposing specified officers or legally authorized persons, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Florida SB 156 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-144"
primary_sponsors: ["Leek"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-10-09"
last_action: "2026-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02134ff4-8f7d-495a-8ff3-c230f12193ba"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/156/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7747199fba50283e538fbad2ee36674a7d6d158b65d9fb72efe8f10a1ba7951f"
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 156 (2026) — Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel

Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel; Citing this act as the "Officer Jason Raynor Act"; revising a prohibition on the use or threatened use of force to resist arrest or detention; providing for enhanced punishment for manslaughter when committed against specified officers; revising provisions concerning assault or battery upon specified officers and other personnel; revising a provision concerning resisting, obstructing, or opposing specified officers or legally authorized persons, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-144.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 156 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/156/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 156 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/156/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 156 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/156/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **103–8** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **31–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
- Leek — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-09** Filed `filing`
- **2025-10-21** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-10** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 11/18/25, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2025-12-01** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 12/09/25, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-12-09** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-12-09** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2026-01-09** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 01/14/26, 2:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 1
- **2026-01-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-01-16** Now in Rules
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-01-22** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
- **2026-01-27** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-01-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/26
- **2026-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-01-29** CS passed; YEAS 31 NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Immediately certified
- **2026-01-29** 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 (Committee Substitute 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 8 `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. 2026-144

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02134ff4-8f7d-495a-8ff3-c230f12193ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).