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type: "Bill"
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title: "Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder"
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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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "SB 418"
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citation: "Florida SB 418 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["(vetoed)", "motor vehicles"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2026-147"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 33
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2025-11-06"
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last_action: "2026-06-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d5317f7-135e-497a-9de4-4a9d90c1f4d6"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "404bd30f05b6b9aa49c304b03234eef16db3c1def5c32e0ef4ac6145149e54bc"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 418 (2026) — Law Enforcement Officer Interactions with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-147.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 418 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 418 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/BillText/e1/HTML)
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3. **S 418 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/418/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
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- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Jones — primary (person)
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- Smith — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-11-06** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-11-17** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2026-01-21** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/26/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
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- **2026-01-26** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-01-27** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
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- **2026-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 37 Senate Building
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- **2026-02-04** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-02-04** Now in Fiscal Policy
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- **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
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- **2026-02-12** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-02-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2026-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
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- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-02-19** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
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- **2026-02-19** In Messages
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- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
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- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
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- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-10** Amendment 376741 adopted
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- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-10** Passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-03-10** In returning messages
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- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (376741)
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- **2026-03-11** Passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2026-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2026-06-17** Chapter No. 2026-147
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## Source
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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).
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