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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 490: Concealed Carry Licensing Requirements for Law Enforcement Officers, Correctional Officers, Correctional Probation Officers, and Military Servicemembers

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 490 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 5, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Concealed Carry Licensing Requirements for Law Enforcement Officers, Correctional Officers, Correctional Probation Officers, and Military Servicemembers. Primary sponsor: Collins, Criminal Justice. Most recent recorded action (April 28, 2025): Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 383 (Ch. 2025-120).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Concealed Carry Licensing Requirements for Law Enforcement Officers, Correctional Officers, Correctional Probation Officers, and Military Servicemembers; Specifying that correctional probation officers have the right to carry concealed firearms, during off-duty hours, at the discretion of their superior officers; authorizing correctional probation officers to perform certain law enforcement functions under limited circumstances; revising the exceptions to the required 3-day waiting period between purchase and delivery of a firearm, etc.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
CollinsPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Criminal JusticePrimary 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. Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 383 (Ch. 2025-120)
  2. Substituted CS/CS/HB 383
  3. Read 2nd time
  4. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/25
  5. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  6. Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
  7. On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
  8. Now in Fiscal Policy
  9. Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 1
  10. On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 04/10/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
  11. CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
  12. Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

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Sources

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