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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1172: Preferences for Veterans and Military Spouses

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

SB 1172 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 25, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Preferences for Veterans and Military Spouses. Primary sponsor: Shev Jones (Democratic), Commerce and Tourism. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Finance and Tax.

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.

Preferences for Veterans and Military Spouses; Requiring the state and its political subdivisions to give preference in appointment and retention in positions of employment to the spouses of wartime veterans, veterans, members of any reserve component of the United States Armed Forces or the Florida National Guard, and certain active duty servicemembers; defining the term “veteran-owned or military spouse-owned business”; providing for contracting preferences for such businesses; citing this act as the "Florida Veterans and Military Spouse Business Development Act", etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Shev JonesPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate34
Commerce and TourismPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“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 Finance and Tax
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
  4. Now in Finance and Tax
  5. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  6. CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
  7. On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
  8. Introduced
  9. Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Finance and Tax; Appropriations
  10. Filed

Sources

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