SB 2C — Immigration
Last action — Chapter No. 2025-1
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Senate
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✓Passed House
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 10, 2025. Enacted.
Signed by Governor Ron DeSantis (Republican) on February 13, 2025.
Prognosis
Where this bill stands today.
Odds of enactment
HighHow often bills like it became law.
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Enacted
Current position in the legislative process.
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2 sponsors
1 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.
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Single-party support
Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 R).
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Mixed recorded votes
3 passed, 1 failed in recorded votes so far.
Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.
Summary
Immigration; Providing that certain persons who vote in an election are guilty of a felony; prohibiting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from issuing a driver license or identification card to unauthorized aliens and undocumented immigrants; requiring a state attorney to seek to have the court sentence certain persons as dangerous unauthorized alien offenders; creating the State Board of Immigration Enforcement within the Department of Law Enforcement; creating the State Immigration Enforcement Council within the State Board of Immigration Enforcement for a specified purpose; requiring the Attorney General to initiate judicial proceedings in the name of the state in order to enforce compliance with an immigration detainer issued by a federal immigration agency; creating the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program within the Division of Emergency Management within the Executive Office of the Governor for a specified purpose, etc. APPROPRIATION: $298,830,552
Bill Text
What changed in the latest version
154 added · 104 removed154 line(s) added, 104 removed.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C By20252Cer Senator2 Gruters 22-00003-25C 20252C__ A bill to be entitled An act relating to immigration;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ penalties for offenses committed by an unauthorized alien;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ providing council duties;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ Customs Enforcement;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 104.155 Unqualified noncitizen electors willfully voting;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ Florida Statutes, to read:
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 322.033 Unauthorized aliens and undocumented immigrants;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ visitors of invalid licenses, shall maintain on its website a list of out-of-state classes of driver licenses that are invalid in this state.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ United States Department of Homeland Security;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ having a current priority date for processing by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ Section 8.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ (5)(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if a licensee established his or her identity for a driver license using an identification document authorized under s.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ (a) For a felony punishable by life, by a term of life imprisonment.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ felony of the third degree.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ unauthorized alien as defined in s.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 9.8.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ real estate timeshare plans.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 903.046, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to create a presumption in favor of release on nonmonetary conditions for any person who is granted pretrial release unless such person is charged with a dangerous crime as defined in subsection (5) or such person is an unauthorized alien charged with a forcible felony as described in subsection (6).
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 1.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 24.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ preponderance of the evidence that the defendant is an unauthorized alien, the court shall presume that the defendant presents a substantial flight risk and that no conditions of release will ensure his or her appearance at trial and shall order pretrial detention.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ such law enforcement agency in, or prohibit the agency from:
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ the enforcement of federal immigration laws and other matters related to the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ federal agencies having authority over immigration enforcement.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ vacancy shall be filled within 2 weeks after such a vacancy by appointment by the original appointing authority for the unexpired portion of the term.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ and funding criteria for the program.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 4.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ (a) Subletting detention beds to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ payments, after considering recommendations of the State Immigration Enforcement Council related to funding criteria.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ of this section.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ sheriff or chief correctional officer operating a county detention facility must provide the requesting federal immigration agency a list of all inmates booked into a county detention facility and any information regarding each inmate’s immigration status.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ imprisonment, involuntary servitude, fraud in foreign labor contracting, blackmail, extortion, or witness tampering, provided that such crime was committed in the United States.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ good faith or upon advice of counsel.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ detention facility must enter into a written agreement with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to participate in the immigration program established under s.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ (a) The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement must specifically request assistance from the division with the transport of unauthorized aliens pursuant to specific federal legal authority.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ elude law enforcement officer who is in a patrol vehicle with siren and lights activated.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 784.078 3rd Battery of facility employee by throwing, tossing, or expelling certain fluids or materials.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 787.04(3) 3rd Carrying child beyond state lines with criminal intent to avoid producing child at custody hearing or delivering to designated person.
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FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 810.02(4)(a) 3rd Burglary, or attempted burglary, of an unoccupied structure;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 812.014(2)(e)3.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 817.625(2)(c) 3rd Possess, sell, or deliver skimming device.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 839.13(2)(c) 3rd Falsifying records of the Department of Children and Families.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ 874.05(1)(a) 3rd Encouraging or recruiting another to join a criminal gang.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ (cellular telephone or other portable communication device) into correctional institution.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ Section 26.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ physical assets in order to further the nation’s mission to address illegal immigration.
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ code 2228, pay plan 08;
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ Enforcement budget entity in specific appropriations categories:
FloridaENROLLED SenateLegislature - 2025 SB 2-C 22-00003-25C20252Cer 20252C__ occurs in this act with the date this act becomes a law.
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Action History
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Chapter No. 2025-1
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Approved by Governor
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Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
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Ordered enrolled
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Passed; YEAS 85, NAYS 30
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Read 3rd time
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Added to Third Reading Calendar
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Placed on 3rd reading
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Amendment 881101 Failed
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Amendment 418549 Failed
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Amendment 046705 Failed
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Amendment 115685 Failed
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Read 2nd time
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Read 1st time
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Substituted for HB 1C
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In Messages
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Passed; YEAS 27 NAYS 10
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Read 3rd time
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Amendment(s) failed (682278)
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Amendment(s) ruled out of order (885906)
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Read 2nd time
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Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/13/25
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Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 12 NAYS 6
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Introduced
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On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/12/25, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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Referred to Appropriations
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Filed
Sponsors
- Fine · Cosponsor
- Joe Gruters · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 162 not signed on · 57 voted No
Sponsors (1)
- Gruters, Joe Republican Voted No
Co-sponsors (1)
- Fine
Not signed on (162)
162 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 162 →"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Republican | 80 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Democrat | 1 | 29 | 0 | 3 |
| Unaffiliated | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 85 | 30 | 0 | 4 |
| % of votes cast | 71% | 25% | 0% | 3% |
How each member voted (119)
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Democrat | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 4 | 19 | 0 | 2 |
| Unaffiliated | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| No Party Affiliation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 22 | 0 | 4 |
| % of votes cast | 35% | 55% | 0% | 10% |
How each member voted (40)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Ingoglia | — | Nay |
| Collins | — | Nay |
| Fine | — | Nay |
| Thompson, Geraldine F. "Geri" | — | Not Voting |
| Arrington, Kristen Aston | Democrat | Yea |
| Berman, Lori | Democrat | Yea |
| Bernard, Mack | Democrat | Yea |
| Davis, Tracie | Democrat | Yea |
| Jones, Shevrin D. "Shev" | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Osgood, Rosalind | Democrat | Yea |
| Polsky, Tina Scott | Democrat | Yea |
| Rouson, Darryl Ervin | Democrat | Yea |
| Sharief, Barbara | Democrat | Yea |
| Smith, Carlos Guillermo | Democrat | Yea |
| Pizzo, Jason W. B. | No Party Affiliation | Yea |
| Albritton, Ben | Republican | Nay |
| Boyd, Jim | Republican | Nay |
| Bradley, Jennifer | Republican | Yea |
| Brodeur, Jason | Republican | Not Voting |
| Burgess, Danny | Republican | Nay |
| Burton, Colleen | Republican | Nay |
| Calatayud, Alexis | Republican | Yea |
| DiCeglie, Nick | Republican | Nay |
| Gaetz, Don | Republican | Nay |
| Garcia, Ileana | Republican | Yea |
| Grall, Erin | Republican | Not Voting |
| Gruters, Joe | Republican | Nay |
| Harrell, Gayle | Republican | Nay |
| Hooper, Ed | Republican | Nay |
| Leek, Thomas J. "Tom" | Republican | Nay |
| Martin, Jonathan | Republican | Nay |
| McClain, Stan | Republican | Nay |
| Passidomo, Kathleen | Republican | Nay |
| Rodriguez, Ana Maria | Republican | Yea |
| Simon, Corey | Republican | Nay |
| Truenow, Keith L. | Republican | Nay |
| Trumbull, Jay | Republican | Nay |
| Vacant | Republican | Nay |
| Wright, Tom A. | Republican | Nay |
| Yarborough, Clay | Republican | Nay |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Democrat | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Unaffiliated | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| No Party Affiliation | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 27 | 10 | 0 | 3 |
| % of votes cast | 68% | 25% | 0% | 8% |
How each member voted (40)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Ingoglia | — | Yea |
| Collins | — | Yea |
| Fine | — | Yea |
| Thompson, Geraldine F. "Geri" | — | Not Voting |
| Arrington, Kristen Aston | Democrat | Nay |
| Berman, Lori | Democrat | Nay |
| Bernard, Mack | Democrat | Nay |
| Davis, Tracie | Democrat | Nay |
| Jones, Shevrin D. "Shev" | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Osgood, Rosalind | Democrat | Nay |
| Polsky, Tina Scott | Democrat | Nay |
| Rouson, Darryl Ervin | Democrat | Nay |
| Sharief, Barbara | Democrat | Nay |
| Smith, Carlos Guillermo | Democrat | Nay |
| Pizzo, Jason W. B. | No Party Affiliation | Nay |
| Albritton, Ben | Republican | Yea |
| Boyd, Jim | Republican | Yea |
| Bradley, Jennifer | Republican | Yea |
| Brodeur, Jason | Republican | Yea |
| Burgess, Danny | Republican | Yea |
| Burton, Colleen | Republican | Yea |
| Calatayud, Alexis | Republican | Yea |
| DiCeglie, Nick | Republican | Yea |
| Gaetz, Don | Republican | Yea |
| Garcia, Ileana | Republican | Yea |
| Grall, Erin | Republican | Not Voting |
| Gruters, Joe | Republican | Yea |
| Harrell, Gayle | Republican | Yea |
| Hooper, Ed | Republican | Yea |
| Leek, Thomas J. "Tom" | Republican | Yea |
| Martin, Jonathan | Republican | Yea |
| McClain, Stan | Republican | Yea |
| Passidomo, Kathleen | Republican | Yea |
| Rodriguez, Ana Maria | Republican | Yea |
| Simon, Corey | Republican | Yea |
| Truenow, Keith L. | Republican | Yea |
| Trumbull, Jay | Republican | Yea |
| Vacant | Republican | Yea |
| Wright, Tom A. | Republican | Yea |
| Yarborough, Clay | Republican | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Republican | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Unaffiliated | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Democrat | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| No Party Affiliation | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| % of votes cast | 63% | 32% | 0% | 5% |
How each member voted (19)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Collins | — | Yea |
| Fine | — | Yea |
| Berman, Lori | Democrat | Nay |
| Polsky, Tina Scott | Democrat | Nay |
| Rouson, Darryl Ervin | Democrat | Nay |
| Sharief, Barbara | Democrat | Nay |
| Smith, Carlos Guillermo | Democrat | Nay |
| Pizzo, Jason W. B. | No Party Affiliation | Nay |
| Brodeur, Jason | Republican | Yea |
| Burgess, Danny | Republican | Yea |
| DiCeglie, Nick | Republican | Yea |
| Garcia, Ileana | Republican | Yea |
| Grall, Erin | Republican | Not Voting |
| Harrell, Gayle | Republican | Yea |
| Hooper, Ed | Republican | Yea |
| Martin, Jonathan | Republican | Yea |
| McClain, Stan | Republican | Yea |
| Trumbull, Jay | Republican | Yea |
| Wright, Tom A. | Republican | Yea |
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does SB 2C do?
- Immigration; Providing that certain persons who vote in an election are guilty of a felony; prohibiting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from issuing a driver license or identification card to unauthorized aliens and undocumented immigrants; requiring a state attorney to seek to have the court sentence certain persons as dangerous unauthorized alien offenders; creating the State Board of Immigration Enforcement within the Department of Law Enforcement; creating the State Immigration Enforcement Council within the State Board of Immigration Enforcement for a specified purpose; requiring the Attorney General to initiate judicial proceedings in the name of the state in order to enforce compliance with an immigration detainer issued by a federal immigration agency; creating the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program within the Division of Emergency Management within the Executive Office of the Governor for a specified purpose, etc. APPROPRIATION: $298,830,552
- Who sponsors SB 2C?
- SB 2C is sponsored by Fine and Gruters, Joe (Republican).
- What is the current status of SB 2C?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 10, 2025. Enacted.
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