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CS/SB 7026: Public Safety

GENERAL BILL by Appropriations ; Rules

Public Safety; Citing this act as the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act”; authorizing the awarding of grants through the Crime Stoppers Trust Fund for student crime watch programs; establishing the Office of Safe Schools within the Department of Education; providing that each sheriff may establish a Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program and appoint certain volunteer school employees as school guardians; prohibiting a person who has been adjudicated mentally defective or been committed to a mental institution from owning or possessing a firearm until certain relief is obtained; prohibiting a person younger than a certain age from purchasing a firearm; prohibiting specified acts relating to the sale and possession of bump-fire stocks; creating the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission within the Department of Law Enforcement, etc. APPROPRIATION: $400,000,000.00

Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect upon becoming a law
Last Action: 3/6/2018 House - Read 2nd time
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Appropriations (AP)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
2/21/2018 Senate • Submitted for consideration by Rules
• On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/18, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
2/26/2018 Senate • Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Rules; YEAS 9 NAYS 4
• Filed
• Referred to Appropriations -SJ 386
• On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/18, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• Introduced -SJ 385
2/27/2018 Senate • CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 12 NAYS 8 -SJ 409
2/28/2018 Senate • Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading -SJ 409
• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/18 -SJ 435
• CS by Appropriations read 1st time -SJ 413
3/1/2018 Senate • Retained on Special Order Calendar -SJ 435
3/2/2018 Senate • Retained on Special Order Calendar for 03/03/2018 -SJ 564
3/3/2018 Senate • Read 2nd time -SJ 582
• Amendment(s) adopted (234288) -SJ 583, 682
• Ordered engrossed -SJ 682
• Placed on 3rd reading
3/5/2018 Senate • Read 3rd time -SJ 738
• Amendment(s) adopted (126060, 685428) -SJ 739, 740
• CS passed as amended; YEAS 20 NAYS 18 -SJ 740
3/5/2018 House • In Messages
• Referred to Calendar
• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/18
• Received
3/6/2018 House • Read 2nd time