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type: "Bill"
title: "School Safety"
description: "School Safety; Requires sheriffs to assist public postsecondary educational institutions in implementing guardian programs under certain provisions; authorizes public postsecondary educational institutions to participate in the school guardian program; requires a sheriff to establish a guardian training program or contract with certain other sheriff's offices to do so in certain circumstances; creates the offense of discharging a weapon or firearm within 1,000 feet of a school; provides that a person arrested for certain offenses must be held in custody until brought before the court for admittance to bail; ranks an offense created by the act on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; authorizes the State Board of Education and the Board of Governors to adopt rules and regulations, respectively, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 757"
citation: "Florida HB 757 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-80"
primary_sponsors: ["Rizo", "Salzman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 57
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-12-12"
last_action: "2026-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6b1a901-7a16-48e8-a4d6-782b1891d06f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/757/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a0fec7e2e5162c1eae909f9b33feba58d80b382e29a9f4ec5115f195eddc4785"
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 HB 757 (2026) — School Safety
School Safety; Requires sheriffs to assist public postsecondary educational institutions in implementing guardian programs under certain provisions; authorizes public postsecondary educational institutions to participate in the school guardian program; requires a sheriff to establish a guardian training program or contract with certain other sheriff's offices to do so in certain circumstances; creates the offense of discharging a weapon or firearm within 1,000 feet of a school; provides that a person arrested for certain offenses must be held in custody until brought before the court for admittance to bail; ranks an offense created by the act on the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code; authorizes the State Board of Education and the Board of Governors to adopt rules and regulations, respectively, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-80.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 757 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/757/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 757 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/757/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 757 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/757/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 757 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/757/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 757 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/757/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 757 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/757/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable With Amendment(s) (Budget Committee) — **235** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Judiciary Committee) — **200** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **8325** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **2610** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **8820** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Education & Employment Committee) — **170** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Budget Committee — primary (organization)
- Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
- Rizo — primary (person)
- Salzman — primary (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-12** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-05** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-05** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-05** Referred to Budget Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-05** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-01-23** PCS added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2026-01-27** Favorable with CS by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-27** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2026-01-27** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2026-01-27** CS Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-27** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-01-28** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Referred to Budget Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2026-01-30** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2026-02-03** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2026-02-03** Now in Budget Committee
- **2026-02-06** PCS added to Budget Committee agenda
- **2026-02-10** Favorable with CS by Budget Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-11** Reported out of Budget Committee
- **2026-02-11** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2026-02-11** CS Filed `filing`
- **2026-02-11** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2026-02-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-02-12** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/25/2026)
- **2026-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 055721 adopted
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 429727 adopted
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 714819 adopted
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 872267 Failed
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 330695 Failed
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 347527 Failed
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 020155 Failed
- **2026-02-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** CS passed as amended; YEAS 83, NAYS 25 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** In Messages
- **2026-02-26** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2026-03-11** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2026-03-11** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-03-11** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 896
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Amendment(s) adopted (263022)
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 26 NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** In Messages
- **2026-03-12** Added to Senate Message List
- **2026-03-12** Amendment 263022 Concur
- **2026-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 88, NAYS 20 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-15** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-18** Chapter No. 2026-80
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6b1a901-7a16-48e8-a4d6-782b1891d06f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).