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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1217: Public Employee Collective Bargaining

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1217 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Public Employee Collective Bargaining. Primary sponsor: Dean Black (Republican). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Government Operations Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Public Employee Collective Bargaining; Provides additional provisions that Public Employees Relations Commission may waive for certain employee organizations; revises requirements for certification, recertification, or decertification of employee organization; removes provisions relating to revocation of certification of employee organization; provides prohibitions on public employers, their agents or representatives, or any person acting on their behalf; authorizes certain actions by public employee upon agreement between public employer & bargaining agent; provides exceptions for certain bargaining units.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Dean BlackPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse15

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Government Operations Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Government Operations Subcommittee
  4. Referred to State Affairs Committee
  5. Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee
  6. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  7. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source