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Votes at a glance: Senate passes appropriations, implementing and conforming bills; near-unanimous floor votes

Florida Senate · February 20, 2026

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Summary

The Florida Senate passed the Senate's appropriations vehicle and a set of implementing and conforming bills on largely unanimous recorded votes and moved them to conference with the House; key measures and vote tallies are listed.

The Florida Senate passed a package of appropriations and related implementing and conforming measures and moved the bills to conference with the House. Below are the bills taken on the special order calendar, the floor outcomes, and the recorded vote tallies as announced on the floor.

- HB 5001 (substituted for SB 2500, General Appropriations Act): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays). Senate moved to request conference with the House.

- HB 5003 (substituted for SB 2502, implementing the GAA): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays). Motion to request conference adopted.

- HB 5201 (substituted for SB 2504, collective bargaining/placeholder for state-employee non-economic issues): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays). Moved to conference.

- HB 5205 (substituted for CS/SB 7028, retirement): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays). Moved to conference.

- SB 2506 (fuel sales tax distribution revisions): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays). Sponsor asked the House to include it in budget conference.

- SB 2508 (removes expiration on $3 surcharge supporting the statewide law enforcement radio system): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays).

- HB 5401 (substituted for SB 2510, terminates an unused mediation/arbitration trust fund): Passed (37 yays, 0 nays).

- SB 2512 (judicial certification; authorizes 13 circuit and 12 county judgeships): Passed (37 yays, 0 nays).

- SB 2514 (education conforming changes to align statutes with Senate budget): Passed (37 yays, 0 nays).

- SB 2516 (higher education statute conforming; nursing and workforce provisions): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays).

- SB 2518 (health conforming measures including managed care projections and foster care/grant changes): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays).

- CS/SB 1004 (domestic animals consumer protections; disclosures and financing rules): Passed (36 yays, 0 nays).

Many of these floor votes were unanimous or near-unanimous; sponsors moved that the Senate request the House pass the measures as passed by the Senate or include them in budget conference. Those conference negotiations are the next formal step before final enactment or veto.