Florida legislation · 2025 Third Special Session
Florida S2: Immigration
Status: Chaptered, February 14, 2025
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.
Sponsors
- Gruters, Joe (R, SD-022) · primary sponsor
- Randy Fine (R, HD-053)
Votes
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#4 (February 13, 2025): 27 yea, 10 nay, passed
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#3 (February 13, 2025): 14 yea, 22 nay, failed
- House: Third Reading RCS#13 (February 13, 2025): 85 yea, 30 nay, passed
- Senate Appropriations (February 12, 2025): 12 yea, 6 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is S2?
- S2 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2025 Third Special Session): Immigration.
- What does S2 do?
- 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.