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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 440: Gender Identity Employment Practices

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 440 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Gender Identity Employment Practices. Primary sponsor: Stan McClain (Republican), Governmental Oversight and Accountability. 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.

Gender Identity Employment Practices; Citing this act as the "Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act"; specifying an employment policy of this state relating to a person’s sex; prohibiting employees and contractors of certain employers from being required to use certain pronouns or requiring such employer to use a pronoun that does not correspond to the employee’s or contractor’s sex; providing that it is an unlawful employment practice for the state or any county, municipality, special district, or other political subdivision to require certain training, instruction, or activity as a condition of employment, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Stan McClainPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate9
Governmental Oversight and AccountabilityPrimary 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 Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration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 Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
  4. Now in Judiciary
  5. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  6. CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 2
  7. On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
  8. On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Not Considered
  9. Introduced
  10. Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Judiciary; Fiscal Policy
  11. Filed

Sources

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