---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/Executive Office of the Governor"
description: "Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/Executive Office of the Governor; Re-creating the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund within the Executive Office of the Governor; specifying that moneys are appropriated to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund by the Legislature or pursuant to a specified provision; requiring that federal reimbursements of state emergency expenditures be deposited in a separate account within the fund; prohibiting moneys in the fund from being used to purchase aircraft, boats, or motor vehicles, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 7040"
citation: "Florida SB 7040 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["military affairs and related matters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-02-02"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0b64553-d152-4d00-b544-3c0fb0c4e8e2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/7040/ByCategory"
source_hash: "96ab72376ea1703dfc1692f636beca4f76dcedc11acb9239a236d57ca2b2a3e8"
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 7040 (2026) — Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/Executive Office of the Governor

Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/Executive Office of the Governor; Re-creating the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund within the Executive Office of the Governor; specifying that moneys are appropriated to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund by the Legislature or pursuant to a specified provision; requiring that federal reimbursements of state emergency expenditures be deposited in a separate account within the fund; prohibiting moneys in the fund from being used to purchase aircraft, boats, or motor vehicles, etc.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 7040 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/7040/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 7040 pb** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/7040/BillText/pb/HTML)
3. **S 7040 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/7040/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 7040 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/7040/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage — **80–20** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **29–7** (pass) · upper
- A - 722464, Amendment, Second Reading — **12–27** (fail) · upper
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee — **12–5** (pass) · upper
- Motion to read Third Time, Second Reading — **27–12** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **29–7** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **82–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-02** Submitted for consideration by Appropriations
- **2026-02-02** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/05/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-05** Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations; YEAS 12 NAYS 5
- **2026-02-06** Filed `filing`
- **2026-02-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/11/26
- **2026-02-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-11** Amendment(s) failed (722464)
- **2026-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-11** Passed; YEAS 29 NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2026-02-11** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-11** In Messages
- **2026-03-05** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-05** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)
- **2026-03-05** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 347925 Failed
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 520451 adopted
- **2026-03-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Passed as amended; YEAS 82, NAYS 25 `passage`
- **2026-03-09** In returning messages
- **2026-03-13** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (877368)
- **2026-03-13** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (520451)
- **2026-03-13** Passed as amended; YEAS 29 NAYS 7 `passage`
- **2026-03-13** In Messages
- **2026-03-13** Added to Senate Message List
- **2026-03-13** Amendment 877368 Concur
- **2026-03-13** Passed as amended; YEAS 80, NAYS 20 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0b64553-d152-4d00-b544-3c0fb0c4e8e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).