SB 132 Florida Senate · 2026 Regular Session

Restoration of Voting Rights

Summary

Restoration of Voting Rights; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database containing certain information for a certain purpose; requiring the Department of Management Services, acting through the Florida Digital Service, to provide certain technical assistance to the commission; providing that a person who takes certain actions in reasonable reliance on the database has an affirmative right to register and to vote and may not be charged with certain violations of criminal law, etc.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Mar 13, 2026

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What changed between versions

S 132 Filed → S 132 c1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to add a critical funding safeguard, requiring legislative appropriation before the Commission on Offender Review can publish the voting rights database online. Additionally, the bill's title and summary were updated to explicitly mention this funding requirement, clarifying that the database will only be made public if the legislature approves the necessary budget.

Scope change

The bill's scope regarding the public availability of the database was modified to include a legislative appropriation condition, meaning the database will not be published until funding is approved.

FISCAL

Added the phrase 'subject to legislative appropriation' to the requirement that the database be made available to the public on an Internet website.

REQUIREMENT

Updated the bill title and summary to explicitly state that the database availability is contingent upon legislative funding approval.

TECHNICAL

Changed the bill identifier from 'S 132 Filed' to 'Committee Substitute 1' and updated the document header to reflect the Appropriations Committee's version.

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Committee

Feb 6, 2026

Upper · Passed

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

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Feb 4, 2026

Upper · Passed

CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0

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Jan 30, 2026

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 37 Senate Building

upper

Jan 27, 2026

Upper · Passed

Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

upper

Jan 26, 2026

Upper · Passed

Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0

upper

Jan 21, 2026

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/26/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building

upper

Jan 13, 2026

Introduced

upper

Oct 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy

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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors