---
type: "Bill"
title: "Victims of Domestic Violence and Dating Violence"
description: "Victims of Domestic Violence and Dating Violence; Requiring the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of Management Services to consult with certain entities to conduct a feasibility study regarding a specified alert system; providing requirements for such alert system; authorizing victims of dating violence to apply to participate in the Attorney General’s address confidentiality program; requiring the Attorney General to designate certain entities to assist victims of dating violence applying to be address confidentiality program participants, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Florida SB 296 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-91"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-10-28"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a38c6347-9caf-4bda-92d7-125d90c1e054"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/296/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a0e02ce7b86158f0e2d37e513426b16dd7ff7ba8e55e88a384abe0df550875d4"
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 296 (2026) — Victims of Domestic Violence and Dating Violence

Victims of Domestic Violence and Dating Violence; Requiring the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of Management Services to consult with certain entities to conduct a feasibility study regarding a specified alert system; providing requirements for such alert system; authorizing victims of dating violence to apply to participate in the Attorney General’s address confidentiality program; requiring the Attorney General to designate certain entities to assist victims of dating violence applying to be address confidentiality program participants, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-91.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 296 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/296/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 296 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/296/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 296 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/296/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berman — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice — primary (organization)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Harrell — cosponsor (person)
- Sharief — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-11-17** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-01** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 12/09/25, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-12-09** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2025-12-10** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-12-11** 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`
- **2026-01-13** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2026-01-14** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-15** Now in Rules
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-01-27** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 0 `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 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Immediately certified
- **2026-01-29** 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 1) `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 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-26** Chapter No. 2026-91

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a38c6347-9caf-4bda-92d7-125d90c1e054`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).