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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1776: Employment Rights

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 1776 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Employment Rights. Primary sponsor: Stan McClain (Republican), Commerce and Tourism. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Judiciary.

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.

Employment Rights; Revising the definition of the term “independent contractor”; revising the prohibitions against retaliatory personnel action against an employee by his or her employer; providing that an employee may not recover in an action against an employer for a retaliatory personnel action unless the employee can prove certain claims by clear and convincing evidence; requiring, rather than authorizing, a court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party for retaliatory personnel actions, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Stan McClainPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate9
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 Judiciary
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
  4. Now in Judiciary
  5. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  6. CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 6 NAYS 3
  7. On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
  8. Introduced
  9. Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules
  10. Filed

Sources

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