TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida lawmakers have filed new payments for the 2026 session Wednesday with new proposals geared toward supporting first responders, boosting early childhood literacy, increasing parental oversight of faculty supplies and offering protections in opposition to marriage fraud.
Increasing assist for first responders
What it does: HB 1129 expands assist for first responders by a number of measures
- The invoice provides newly employed firefighters to the state’s Regulation Enforcement Officer & Firefighter Recruitment Bonus Fee Program.
- Requires the Division of Commerce to confirm applicant info with the Division of State Fireplace Marshal and duties the division with defining firefighter misconduct by rule.
- Revises and extends this system’s expiration date.
- Authorizes the Chief Monetary Officer to nominate a overview panel to judge grants, with specified membership and duties.
- Establishes basic program assist grants and particular fireplace program grants, requiring inclusion of permitted candidates in funds requests and funding till appropriated funds are depleted.
Sponsor: The invoice has been filed by Republican Rep. Danny Alvarez. An an identical invoice has been filed, SB 1286, by Republican Sen. Tom Wright.
If handed, it will take impact upon turning into a legislation.
Strengthening oversight of faculty supplies
What it does: HB 1119 enhances protections relating to academic content material.
- Defines the time period “dangerous to minors” in state legislation.
- Revises and expands the record of classroom supplies topic to the objection course of by mother and father or county residents.
- Any materials objected to on the grounds of being pornographic, prohibited below state obscenity legal guidelines, or “dangerous to minors” have to be eliminated inside 5 college days of the objection.
- As soon as eliminated, these supplies should stay unavailable to all college students till the objection is formally resolved.
- Mother and father who disagree with a college board’s ultimate resolution on an objection can request the Commissioner of Schooling to nominate a Particular Justice of the Peace to overview the case on the college district’s expense.
- The State Board of Schooling will conduct common audits to make sure district compliance. Non-compliant districts face the potential withholding of state funds.
The invoice additionally states that oldsters have the best to learn passages from any challenged materials in the course of the course of. If a college board denies this proper as a result of the content material is taken into account too offensive to learn aloud, the district should robotically discontinue the usage of that materials.
- Mother and father have the best to learn passages from any challenged materials in the course of the course of. If a college board denies this proper as a result of the content material is taken into account too offensive to learn aloud, the district should robotically discontinue the usage of that materials.
Sponsor: The invoice has been filed by Republican Rep. Doug Bankson. A Senate associated model has but to be filed.
If handed, it will take impact July 1, 2026.
Protections in opposition to marriage fraud
What it does: SB 1316 supplies new treatments for victims of fraudulent marriages.
- Defines the time period “marriage fraud.”
- Creates a reason for motion for an injunction for defense in opposition to marriage fraud.
- Permits victims to file a petition for such an injunction, no matter some other pending authorized actions.
- Prohibits clerks of the court docket from charging submitting charges for these petitions.
- Requires courts to set a listening to promptly upon the submitting of a petition.
Sponsor: The invoice has been filed by Republican Sen. Clay Yarborough. A comparable Home model has been filed, HB 485, by Republican Rep. Berny Jacques and Democratic Rep. Kimberly Daniels.
If handed, it will take impact October 1, 2026.
The legislative session is about to start Jan. 13.
