Florida legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Florida H1445: Public Officers and Employees
Status: Vetoed, July 1, 2025
Requiring that, beginning on a specified date, secretaries and executive directors of departments, chief administrative officers of certain units of state government, members of commissions and licensing boards, chairs of governing boards or certain chief executives of certain statewide entities, or any persons appointed to hold state office in the executive branch of state government be United States citizens and residents of this state; providing that a specified provision applies to each such offices; requiring that, beginning on a specified date, members of the board of trustees for state universities be United States citizens and residents of this state or graduates of the state university that the board oversees.
Sponsors
- State Affairs Committee · primary sponsor
- Hodgers, Brian (R, HD-032) · primary sponsor
- Gentry, Richard (R, HD-027)
Votes
- House: Third Reading RCS#422 (May 2, 2025): 97 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#21 (May 1, 2025): 37 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Third Reading RCS#105 (April 16, 2025): 111 yea, 1 nay, passed
- House State Affairs Committee (April 8, 2025): 22 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Government Operations Subcommittee (March 11, 2025): 17 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is H1445?
- H1445 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Public Officers and Employees.
- What does H1445 do?
- Requiring that, beginning on a specified date, secretaries and executive directors of departments, chief administrative officers of certain units of state government, members of commissions and licensing boards, chairs of governing boards or certain chief executives of certain statewide entities, or any persons appointed to hold state office in the executive branch of state government be United States citizens and residents of this state; providing that a specified provision applies to each such offices; requiring that, beginning on a specified date, members of the board of trustees for state universities be United States citizens and residents of this state or graduates of the state university that the board oversees.