---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder"
description: "Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to establish a program to improve communication between individuals with autism spectrum disorder and law enforcement officers under certain circumstances; requiring the department to develop and make available to individuals with autism spectrum disorder a certain envelope and card by a specified date; defining the terms “agency” and “autism spectrum disorder”; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission within the Department of Law Enforcement to establish an employment training component relating to individuals with autism spectrum disorder, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 418"
citation: "Florida SB 418 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)", "motor vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-147"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-11-06"
last_action: "2026-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d5317f7-135e-497a-9de4-4a9d90c1f4d6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/ByCategory"
source_hash: "404bd30f05b6b9aa49c304b03234eef16db3c1def5c32e0ef4ac6145149e54bc"
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 418 (2026) — Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to establish a program to improve communication between individuals with autism spectrum disorder and law enforcement officers under certain circumstances; requiring the department to develop and make available to individuals with autism spectrum disorder a certain envelope and card by a specified date; defining the terms “agency” and “autism spectrum disorder”; requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission within the Department of Law Enforcement to establish an employment training component relating to individuals with autism spectrum disorder, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-147.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 418 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 418 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 418 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-06** Filed `filing`
- **2025-11-17** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-21** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/26/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-26** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-27** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2026-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-02-04** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-04** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-12** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-19** 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 (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Amendment 376741 adopted
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** Passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-10** In returning messages
- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (376741)
- **2026-03-11** Passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-17** Chapter No. 2026-147

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d5317f7-135e-497a-9de4-4a9d90c1f4d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).