---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighter Cancer Benefits"
description: "Firefighter Cancer Benefits; Requiring a former employer to provide death benefits to certain beneficiaries for a specified time period under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 984"
citation: "Florida SB 984 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-99"
primary_sponsors: ["DiCeglie"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-12-19"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50738990-0f8e-4a84-a178-671c0870d511"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b279f9b292ae8c8d9c0c6e704b51ff4d1a93241e0a30566557f1957c034245fc"
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 984 (2026) — Firefighter Cancer Benefits

Firefighter Cancer Benefits; Requiring a former employer to provide death benefits to certain beneficiaries for a specified time period under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-99.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 984 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 984 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 984 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 984 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 984 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (organization)
- DiCeglie — primary (person)
- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (organization)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-19** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-07** Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/27/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-27** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2026-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 02/11/26, 3:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-11** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-12** Now in Appropriations
- **2026-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-18** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2026-02-18** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- **2026-02-24** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-26** 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 (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 761459 adopted
- **2026-03-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-09** In returning messages
- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (761459)
- **2026-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-26** Chapter No. 2026-99

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50738990-0f8e-4a84-a178-671c0870d511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).