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Florida 2026

SB 1178

Foreign Influence

Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 03:11:01 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Florida
Session
2026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
civil practice and procedure, domestic relations, electors and elections, motor vehicles, public business, real and personal property, subject index
Introduced / first action
2026-01-06 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Foreign Influence; Citing this act as the “Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act”; prohibiting preplanned adoption agreements unless certain conditions are met; prohibiting specified persons from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a designated foreign terrorist organization, a foreign country of concern, or persons or entities representing such organizations or countries; authorizing any appropriate tax collector to revoke or refuse to renew business tax receipts of specified individuals, businesses, or entities; prohibiting a governmental entity from knowingly entering into certain contracts with foreign sources of concern; removing the Florida-China Institute from the list of linkage institutes, etc.

Sponsors

  • Appropriations (primary), primary
  • Ethics and Elections (primary), primary
  • Grall (primary), primary
  • Avila, cosponsor

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 905 (Ch. 2026-66)

    failure
  2. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  3. CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time

  4. Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  5. CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 11 NAYS 5

  6. On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/02/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

  7. Now in Appropriations

  8. Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable
  9. On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/03/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

  10. CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time

  11. Now in Judiciary

  12. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  13. CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 7 NAYS 0

  14. On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 01/28/26, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Building

  15. Introduced

    introduction
  16. Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Appropriations

    referral-committee
  17. Filed

    filing