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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 280: Candidate Qualification

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 280 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on January 15, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Candidate Qualification. Primary sponsor: Kristen Arrington (Democratic), Ethics and Elections. It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Messages.

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.

Candidate Qualification; Providing eligibility requirements for persons seeking to qualify for nomination as candidates of a political party or as candidates with no party affiliation; providing that certain entities may bring an action for declaratory and injunctive relief based on a certain claim; prohibiting a person from qualifying as a candidate for election and prohibiting his or her name from appearing on the ballot under certain circumstances, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Kristen ArringtonPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate25
Ethics and ElectionsPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
CollinsCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Tracie DavisCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate5
Ed HooperCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate21

“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 Messages
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. In Messages
  4. Immediately certified
  5. CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
  6. Read 3rd time
  7. Read 2nd time
  8. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/27/25
  9. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  10. Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0
  11. On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/19/25, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
  12. Now in Rules

Showing 12 most recent of 22 actions. Full history

Sources

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