HB 5503 Florida House · 2026 Regular Session

Trust Funds/Re-creation/Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/EOG

Summary

Trust Funds/Re-creation/Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/EOG; Re-creates Emergency Preparedness & Response Fund within EOG, Division of Emergency Management; revises & provides uses of moneys deposited in fund; provides requirements for deposit of federal reimbursements of state emergency expenditures; provides reporting requirements; revises provisions relating to termination of fund; provides for retroactive application.

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Feb 2026

House Passage

Feb 2026

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 16, 2026 Last action Mar 13, 2026

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What changed between versions

H 5503 Filed → H 5503 e1 · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill was renumbered to indicate it is an engrossed version and the page count increased from 3 to 4. The core policy text regarding the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund remains substantively unchanged, with only minor formatting adjustments to spacing and line breaks.

TECHNICAL

The bill header was updated to reflect the 'Engrossed 1' status, and the document page count was updated from 3 to 4.

Minor formatting changes were made to the spacing and indentation of the bill title and section headers.

Floor votes · House Feb 19, 2026

How they voted

85–18

Passed · 15 other

Total votes 118

Feb 19, 2026

D Democratic34

6 Yea 18 Nay 10

52% Nay

R Republican84

79 Yea 5

94% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Mar 3, 2026

Introduced

Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Amendments)

upper

Mar 2, 2026

Introduced

Favorable with 1 amendment(s) by- Appropriations (347342); YEAS 17 NAYS 0

upper

Feb 25, 2026

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/02/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

upper

Feb 20, 2026

Lower · Passed

Conference Committee appointed

lower

Feb 19, 2026

Committee

Referred to Appropriations

upper

Feb 19, 2026

Lower · Passed

Requests that the Senate pass the bill as passed by the House or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference

lower

Feb 19, 2026

Lower · Passed

Passed as amended; YEAS 84, NAYS 18

lower

Feb 19, 2026

Lower · Passed

Amendment 032609 adopted

lower

Feb 16, 2026

Committee

Bill referred to House Calendar

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors