SB 490 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Concealed Carry Licensing Requirements for Law Enforcement Officers, Correctional Officers, Correctional Probation Officers, and Military Servicemembers

Summary

Concealed Carry Licensing Requirements for Law Enforcement Officers, Correctional Officers, Correctional Probation Officers, and Military Servicemembers; Specifying that correctional probation officers have the right to carry concealed firearms, during off-duty hours, at the discretion of their superior officers; authorizing correctional probation officers to perform certain law enforcement functions under limited circumstances; revising the exceptions to the required 3-day waiting period between purchase and delivery of a firearm, etc.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 4, 2025 Last action Apr 28, 2025

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S 490 Filed → S 490 c1 · 5 edits

MODERATE

This bill expands concealed carry rights for correctional probation officers to include off-duty hours with superior officer approval, adds correctional probation officers to the list of law enforcement personnel exempt from certain licensing requirements, and clarifies the definition of 'holder of a concealed weapons or concealed firearms license' to include these officers. It also updates the waiting period exceptions for firearm purchases to include correctional probation officers alongside other law enforcement and correctional officers.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from covering only law enforcement, correctional officers, and military servicemembers to also include correctional probation officers, extending their rights to carry concealed firearms off-duty and purchasing firearms without the standard waiting period.

ELIGIBILITY

Correctional probation officers are now explicitly included as eligible to carry concealed firearms off-duty at the discretion of their superior officers.

Correctional probation officers are added to the list of personnel exempt from concealed carry licensing requirements when acting in the line of duty.

REQUIREMENT

The 3-day waiting period for firearm purchases no longer applies to correctional probation officers, placing them on equal footing with other law enforcement and correctional officers.

Superior officers of the Department of Corrections must now file a statement with the governing body if they direct correctional probation officers to carry concealed firearms off-duty.

DEFINITION

The definition of 'holder of a concealed weapons or concealed firearms license' was expanded to include correctional probation officers as defined in s. 943.10.

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Committee

Apr 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0

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Apr 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building

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Apr 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 1

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Apr 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 04/10/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building

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Mar 6, 2025

Upper · Passed

Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Upper · Passed

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

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Mar 4, 2025

Introduced

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Feb 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/04/25, 2:00 pm, 37 Senate Building

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Feb 20, 2025

Committee

Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy

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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors