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type: "Bill"
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title: "Firefighter Cancer Benefits"
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description: "Firefighter Cancer Benefits; Requiring a former employer to provide death benefits to certain beneficiaries for a specified time period under certain circumstances, 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 984"
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citation: "Florida SB 984 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2026-99"
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primary_sponsors: ["DiCeglie"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 37
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2025-12-19"
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last_action: "2026-05-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50738990-0f8e-4a84-a178-671c0870d511"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "b279f9b292ae8c8d9c0c6e704b51ff4d1a93241e0a30566557f1957c034245fc"
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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 984 (2026) — Firefighter Cancer Benefits
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Firefighter Cancer Benefits; Requiring a former employer to provide death benefits to certain beneficiaries for a specified time period under certain circumstances, etc.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-99.
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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 984 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 984 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 984 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/c2/HTML)
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4. **S 984 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/e1/HTML)
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5. **S 984 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/984/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
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- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Appropriations — primary (organization)
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- DiCeglie — primary (person)
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- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (organization)
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- Arrington — cosponsor (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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- **2025-12-19** Filed `filing`
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- **2026-01-07** Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/27/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
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- **2026-01-27** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-01-28** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
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- **2026-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 02/11/26, 3:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
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- **2026-02-11** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
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- **2026-02-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2026-02-12** Now in Appropriations
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- **2026-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
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- **2026-02-18** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
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- **2026-02-18** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
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- **2026-02-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2026-02-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2026-02-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
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- **2026-02-24** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
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- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
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- **2026-02-26** In Messages
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- **2026-03-05** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2026-03-05** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)
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- **2026-03-05** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
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- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-09** Amendment 761459 adopted
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- **2026-03-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-03-09** In returning messages
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- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (761459)
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- **2026-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2026-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2026-05-26** Chapter No. 2026-99
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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/50738990-0f8e-4a84-a178-671c0870d511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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