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type: "Bill"
title: "Immigration"
description: "Immigration; Providing that certain persons who vote in an election are guilty of a felony; prohibiting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from issuing a driver license or identification card to unauthorized aliens and undocumented immigrants; requiring a state attorney to seek to have the court sentence certain persons as dangerous unauthorized alien offenders; creating the State Board of Immigration Enforcement within the Department of Law Enforcement; creating the State Immigration Enforcement Council within the State Board of Immigration Enforcement for a specified purpose; requiring the Attorney General to initiate judicial proceedings in the name of the state in order to enforce compliance with an immigration detainer issued by a federal immigration agency; creating the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program within the Division of Emergency Management within the Executive Office of the Governor for a specified purpose, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025C"
identifier: "SB 2C"
citation: "Florida SB 2C (2025C)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "crimes", "criminal procedure and corrections", "electors and elections", "k", "motor vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-1"
primary_sponsors: ["Gruters"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfe6795d-34b3-4fb8-b65c-9b89aa404b54"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025C/2C/ByCategory"
source_hash: "35246deea95e866b4aee35e533c804d8431e67faea5069f55b7386c09124ee8f"
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 2C (2025C) — Immigration
Immigration; Providing that certain persons who vote in an election are guilty of a felony; prohibiting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from issuing a driver license or identification card to unauthorized aliens and undocumented immigrants; requiring a state attorney to seek to have the court sentence certain persons as dangerous unauthorized alien offenders; creating the State Board of Immigration Enforcement within the Department of Law Enforcement; creating the State Immigration Enforcement Council within the State Board of Immigration Enforcement for a specified purpose; requiring the Attorney General to initiate judicial proceedings in the name of the state in order to enforce compliance with an immigration detainer issued by a federal immigration agency; creating the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program within the Division of Emergency Management within the Executive Office of the Governor for a specified purpose, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-1.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 2C Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025C/2C/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 2C er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025C/2C/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **2710** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **126** (pass) · upper
- A - 682278, Amendment, Second Reading — **1422** (fail) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **8530** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gruters — primary (person)
- Fine — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-10** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/12/25, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-02-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 12 NAYS 6 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-02-12** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/13/25
- **2025-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** Amendment(s) ruled out of order (885906)
- **2025-02-13** Amendment(s) failed (682278)
- **2025-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13** Passed; YEAS 27 NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2025-02-13** In Messages
- **2025-02-13** Substituted for HB 1C
- **2025-02-13** Read 1st time
- **2025-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** Amendment 115685 Failed
- **2025-02-13** Amendment 046705 Failed
- **2025-02-13** Amendment 418549 Failed
- **2025-02-13** Amendment 881101 Failed
- **2025-02-13** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13** Passed; YEAS 85, NAYS 30 `passage`
- **2025-02-13** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-13** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-14** Chapter No. 2025-1
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfe6795d-34b3-4fb8-b65c-9b89aa404b54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).