Florida Senate Bill 1598

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: Failed on March 13 2026 - 100% progression
Action: 2026-03-13 - Died in Ethics and Elections
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring that the Secretary of State be elected, rather than appointed, and serve a specified term; requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; authorizing a person who meets certain requirements to register to vote for the early voting period or election day at an early voting site or his or her polling place and cast a ballot immediately thereafter; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to preregister certain individuals to vote; revising the information a third-party voter registration organization is required to provide to the Division of Elections of the Department of State, etc.

Elections

Sen. LaVon Bracy Davis [D]	Sen. Lori Berman [D]	Sen. Kristen Arrington [D]	Sen. Tracie Davis [D]
Sen. Mackenson Bernard [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-13	Senate	Died in Ethics and Elections
2026-01-22	Senate	Introduced
2026-01-16	Senate	Referred to Ethics and Elections; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy
2026-01-09	Senate	Filed

H73 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Information Technology Budget & Policy Subcommittee
S132 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Fiscal Policy
H1419 (Same As) 2026-03-13 - Died in Government Operations Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
100	371		Amended Code	See Bill Text
100	51		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	016		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	019		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	048		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	572		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	62		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	64		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	65		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	68		Amended Code	See Bill Text
101	69		Amended Code	See Bill Text
104	0616		Amended Code	See Bill Text
104	155		Amended Code	See Bill Text
104	42		Amended Code	See Bill Text
20	10		Amended Code	See Bill Text
20	32		Amended Code	See Bill Text
921	0022		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	021		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	022		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	0291		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	0556		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	057		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	0575		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	21		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	22		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	23		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	24		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	25		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	26		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	27		Amended Code	See Bill Text
97	28		Amended Code	See Bill Text
98	045		Amended Code	See Bill Text
98	255		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1598
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1598/BillText/Filed/HTML