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Florida · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1396: Litigation Financing Consumer Protection

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 1396 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on January 8, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Litigation Financing Consumer Protection. Primary sponsor: Colleen Burton (Republican), Rules. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 2026): Died on Calendar.

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.

Litigation Financing Consumer Protection; Citing this act as the “Litigation Investment Safeguards and Transparency Act”; authorizing courts to consider the existence of a litigation financing agreement under certain circumstances; prohibiting specified acts by litigation financiers; requiring certain parties to a legal proceeding, or their counsels of record, which have entered into a litigation financing agreement with a foreign person, a foreign principal, or a sovereign wealth fund to file and serve a notice identifying specified information with the court, agency, or tribunal and all other parties to the legal proceeding within a specified timeframe, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Colleen BurtonPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate12
RulesPrimary 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 on Calendar
  2. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  3. CS by Rules read 1st time
  4. Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  5. CS by- Rules; YEAS 13 NAYS 10
  6. On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
  7. Now in Rules
  8. Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 8 NAYS 2
  9. Introduced
  10. On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/27/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
  11. Referred to Judiciary; Rules
  12. Filed

Sources

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