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Florida 2026

SB 554

Nonprofit Corporations

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

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Florida
Session
2026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
(vetoed), business organizations, social welfare, subject index, veterans
Introduced / first action
2025-11-18 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Nonprofit Corporations; Renaming the “Florida Not For Profit Corporation Act” as the “Florida Nonprofit Corporation Act”; revising the circumstances in which a domestic or foreign corporation may correct a document filed with the department; requiring all courts, public offices, and official bodies to receive all certificates issued by the department as prima facie evidence of certain facts; authorizing a corporation to register under a name that is not otherwise distinguishable on the records of the department under certain circumstances; prohibiting a corporation from paying any dividend and making distributions of any part of its net income or net earnings to its members, directors, or officers, etc.

Sponsors

  • Fiscal Policy (primary), primary
  • Bernard (primary), primary

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 797 (Ch. 2026-168)

    deferral
  2. Substituted CS/CS/HB 797

  3. Read 2nd time

    reading-2
  4. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/26

  5. CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time

  6. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

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

  8. CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0

  9. On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/18/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building

  10. Now in Fiscal Policy

  11. Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable
  12. On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

  13. Now in Judiciary

  14. Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 10 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable
  15. On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/21/26, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building

  16. Introduced

    introduction
  17. Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Fiscal Policy

    referral-committee
  18. Filed

    filing