SB 440 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Gender Identity Employment Practices

Summary

Gender Identity Employment Practices; Citing this act as the "Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act"; specifying an employment policy of this state relating to a person’s sex; prohibiting employees and contractors of certain employers from being required to use certain pronouns or requiring such employer to use a pronoun that does not correspond to the employee’s or contractor’s sex; providing that it is an unlawful employment practice for the state or any county, municipality, special district, or other political subdivision to require certain training, instruction, or activity as a condition of employment, etc.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 10, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025

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S 440 Filed → S 440 c1 · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill was amended from its original version to include new provisions prohibiting nonbinary options on job applications and authorizing the Department of Management Services to adopt administrative rules. The amendment also adds a new subsection to the unlawful employment practices section regarding gender identity training requirements for government employers.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to include specific restrictions on job application forms and administrative rulemaking authority for the Department of Management Services.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new provision prohibiting job applications from including nonbinary or other options beyond male or female for sex designation.

Added a new subsection to section 760.10 making it an unlawful employment practice for government entities to require training on gender identity or gender expression as a condition of employment.

ENFORCEMENT

Added authority for the Department of Management Services to adopt rules to administer the new personal pronoun section.

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Committee

Mar 26, 2025

Upper · Passed

Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

upper

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building

upper

Mar 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Not Considered

upper

Mar 10, 2025

Introduced

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Committee

Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Judiciary; Fiscal Policy

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors