2026 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

After the Gavel: Florida

Republicans hold 28 of 40 Senate seats and 86 of 120 House seats (1 vacant), a supermajority in both chambers.

After the Gavel analyzed bills from Florida's 2026 legislative session, including two special sessions, organized into 10 posts. Some are grouped by theme, because a single bill rarely tells the whole story and related bills, read together, usually do.

This is our read of the bill. We encourage every reader to read the legislation for themselves and reach their own conclusions.

Every post links to the enrolled text, the fiscal note, and the roll call it draws from. Every claim here traces to the enrolled bill, the roll call, or a named outside source. Projections are labeled as projections until they're checked against the fiscal note.

H5001-E · H5003-E
Florida’s $114 Billion Budget Has Two Sentences About Government Identity Systems. That’s the Problem.

Two government identity projects, funded again, described nowhere in the text the Legislature actually voted on.

2 Bills, One Pattern H0445
Once a Jury Says Guilty, Why Was Florida Ever Letting That Person Go Home?

Missy’s Law requires immediate remand once guilt is established, not merely charged.

1 Bill H0961
Florida Just Deleted a Federal Identity Standard From State Law

The first Florida law to cite a federal NIST identity-assurance standard just deleted that citation instead of adding one.

1 Bill H0991
Florida’s New Elections Law Verifies Citizenship the Right Way. It Also Builds Something Bigger.

Real citizenship verification, built on cross-agency data-linkage with none of the guardrails that should come with it.

1 Bill H0001-D
Florida Redrew Its Congressional Map Mid-Decade. Ask What Happens When the Other Side Does It Back.

A mid-decade map, three pending lawsuits, and a constitutional amendment voters passed to stop exactly this.

1 Bill H1217 · H0399
Florida Shut Down Two Hidden Taxes This Session. One on Carbon, One on Construction.

A net-zero mandate ban and a development-fee cost-basis rule, the same principle applied in two directions.

2 Bills, One Pattern S0484
A Data Center Wants to Move Into Florida. Who Should Pay If It Can’t Cover Its Own Bill?

Large-load customers now cover their own cost of service, so ordinary ratepayers don’t subsidize the buildout.

1 Bill H0167
Before You Can Sue Over Contamination on an Old Phosphate Mine, Florida Now Makes You Prove It First

A state radiation-survey program paired with a pleading-stage burden that falls hardest on plaintiffs without resources.

1 Bill H1471
Florida Gave Three Elected Officials the Power to Call You a Terrorist. What Happens When Different Officials Hold It?

A designation power built for real threats, with no independent check before the reputational damage is done.

1 Bill S1134
Florida Banned DEI in Local Government. Then It Left the Back Door Open for One Group.

Eight careful carve-outs protect local government directly. The contractor certification requirement doesn’t cross-reference them.

1 Bill

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