S 0132

Restoration of Voting RightsMiami-Dade

Would have created a state database showing whether a person with a felony conviction has had their voting rights restored. People who checked the database and registered or voted in good faith based on it could not be prosecuted for illegal voting. The bill died in committee.

Timeline

March 13, 2026Died in Fiscal Policy
February 10, 2026CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
February 6, 2026Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
February 6, 2026Now in Fiscal Policy
February 4, 2026CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 08–0
January 30, 2026On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/04/26, 3:45 pm, 37 Senate Building
January 27, 2026Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
January 26, 2026Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 07–0
January 21, 2026On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/26/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
January 13, 2026Introduced
October 21, 2025Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
October 8, 2025Filed

Status

Died in Fiscal Policy

Stage:: Failed
Chamber:: Senate
Last movement:: March 13, 2026

Why Miami-Dade cares

Miami-Dade has one of Florida's largest returning-citizen populations, so a safe-harbor voting database would have had outsized local impact on voter registration rates. It is tracked in our Miami-Dade filter on the Bill Tracker.

Bill text, sponsors and roll-call data via LegiScan · 2026 Regular Session of the Florida Legislature.