Florida Senate Bill 1396

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2026 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2026-03-13 - Died on Calendar
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Citing this act as the "Litigation Investment Safeguards and Transparency Act"; authorizing courts to consider the existence of a litigation financing agreement under certain circumstances; prohibiting specified acts by litigation financiers; requiring certain parties to a legal proceeding, or their counsels of record, which have entered into a litigation financing agreement with a foreign person, a foreign principal, or a sovereign wealth fund to file and serve a notice identifying specified information with the court, agency, or tribunal and all other parties to the legal proceeding within a specified timeframe, etc.

Litigation Financing Consumer Protection

Senate Rules Committee

Sen. Colleen Burton [R]

2026-02-03 - Senate - Senate Rules (Y: 13 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2026-01-27 - Senate - Senate Judiciary (Y: 8 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-13	Senate	Died on Calendar
2026-02-04	Senate	Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2026-02-04	Senate	CS by Rules read 1st time
2026-02-04	Senate	Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2026-02-03	Senate	CS by- Rules; YEAS 13 NAYS 10
2026-01-29	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
2026-01-27	Senate	Now in Rules
2026-01-27	Senate	Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 8 NAYS 2
2026-01-22	Senate	Introduced
2026-01-22	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/27/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
2026-01-16	Senate	Referred to Judiciary; Rules
2026-01-08	Senate	Filed

H1157 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
69	101		Amended Code	See Bill Text
69	103		Amended Code	See Bill Text
69	105		Amended Code	See Bill Text
69	107		Amended Code	See Bill Text
69	109		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/BillText/c1/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/Amendment/707190/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/Analyses/2026s01396.pre.ju.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/Analyses/2026s01396.ju.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/Analyses/2026s01396.pre.rc.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/Analyses/2026s01396.rc.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/Vote/2026-01-27%200100PM~S01396%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1396/Vote/2026-02-03%200900AM~S01396%20Vote%20Record.PDF