Florida Senate Bill 1580

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on March 13 2026 - 100% progression
Action: 2026-03-13 - Died in returning Messages
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Repealing a provision relating to penalties and violations related to illegal gambling; authorizing a person who is ineligible for employment with the commission to submit a waiver request to the commission asking to be considered eligible for employment if the person possesses certain expertise or experience; revising the standards of conduct for current and former commissioners and employees of the commission; authorizing a slot machine licensee to apply to the commission to change the location of its designated slot machine gaming area under certain circumstances; providing criminal penalties for persons who stake, bet, or wager any money or other thing of value upon the result of certain games, contests, matches, races, or sports if such persons have knowledge that the outcome of the games, contests, matches, races, or sports is prearranged or predetermined; revising the criminal penalties for persons who rent or lease a house for gambling purposes, etc.

Illegal Gaming

Senate Rules Committee

Senate Regulated Industries Committee

Sen. Jonathan Martin [R]

2026-03-11 - House - House: Third Reading RCS#788 (Y: 82 N: 31 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2026-03-06 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#31 (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2026-03-03 - Senate - Senate Rules (Y: 21 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2026-02-25 - Senate - Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2026-02-10 - Senate - Senate Regulated Industries (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-13	Senate	Died in returning Messages
2026-03-11	Senate	In returning messages
2026-03-11	House	CS passed as amended; YEAS 82, NAYS 31
2026-03-11	House	Read 3rd time
2026-03-11	House	Added to Third Reading Calendar
2026-03-11	House	Amendment 409731 adopted
2026-03-11	House	Read 2nd time
2026-03-10	House	1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
2026-03-10	House	Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
2026-03-10	House	Bill referred to House Calendar
2026-03-06	House	In Messages
2026-03-06	Senate	CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0
2026-03-06	Senate	Read 3rd time
2026-03-06	Senate	Read 2nd time
2026-03-04	Senate	CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
2026-03-04	Senate	Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/26
2026-03-04	Senate	Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2026-03-04	Senate	Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2026-03-03	Senate	CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 21 NAYS 1
2026-02-26	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
2026-02-25	Senate	Now in Rules
2026-02-25	Senate	Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
2026-02-20	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/25/26, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
2026-02-18	Senate	CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
2026-02-12	Senate	Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
2026-02-12	Senate	Remaining references corrected to Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Rules
2026-02-12	Senate	Original reference(s) removed: Fiscal Policy
2026-02-12	Senate	Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2026-02-10	Senate	CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
2026-02-05	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
2026-01-22	Senate	Introduced
2026-01-16	Senate	Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
2026-01-09	Senate	Filed

H189 (Similar To) 2026-03-11 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/SB 1580
H591 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
S1164 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Regulated Industries
S204 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Rules

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	71		Amended Code	See Bill Text
16	712		Amended Code	See Bill Text
16	713		Amended Code	See Bill Text
16	715		Amended Code	See Bill Text
20	055		Amended Code	See Bill Text
546	10		Amended Code	See Bill Text
551	107		Amended Code	See Bill Text
551	114		Amended Code	See Bill Text
772	102		Amended Code	See Bill Text
782	04		Amended Code	See Bill Text
838	12		Amended Code	See Bill Text
843	08		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	01		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	021		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	023		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	03		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	08		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	086		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	09		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	11		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	13		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	14		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	15		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	155		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	157		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	17		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	18		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	181		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	20		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	21		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	22		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	23		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	47		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	48		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	49		Amended Code	See Bill Text
849	51		Amended Code	See Bill Text
895	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
903	046		Amended Code	See Bill Text
921	0022		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/BillText/c1/HTML
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/BillText/c2/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Amendment/178928/HTML
Amendment	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Amendment/409731/PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Analyses/2026s01580.pre.ri.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Analyses/2026s01580.ri.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Analyses/2026s01580.pre.aeg.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Analyses/2026s01580.aeg.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Analyses/2026s01580.pre.rc.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Analyses/2026s01580.rc.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Analyses/2026s01580.hms.ri.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Vote/2026-02-10%201200PM~S01580%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Vote/2026-02-25%200130PM~S01580%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Vote/2026-03-03%200900AM~S01580%20Vote%20Record.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Vote/SenateVote_s01580c2031.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1580/Vote/HouseVote_s01580c2788.PDF