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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 980: Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program

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 980 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program. Primary sponsor: Mack Bernard (Democratic). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government.

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.

Hunger-Free Campus Pilot Program; Citing this act as the "Hunger-Free Campus Act"; establishing the pilot program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified period; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to identify the three state universities or Florida College System institutions with the highest percentage of Pell Grant-eligible students for participation in the pilot program; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to conduct a study to evaluate food insecurity on the campuses of state universities and Florida College System institutions, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Independent 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mack BernardPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate24
Jason PizzoCo-sponsorIndependentSenate37

“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 Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
  4. Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
  5. On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
  6. Introduced
  7. Referred to Agriculture; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
  8. Filed

Sources

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