Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 880
       
       
        
       By Senator Garcia
       
       
       
       
       
       36-00786-25                                            2025880__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to designation of the state birds;
    3         creating s. 15.0352, F.S.; designating the American
    4         flamingo as the official state bird and the Florida
    5         scrub-jay as the official state songbird; providing
    6         that such designations supersede the designation of
    7         the mockingbird as the official Florida state bird;
    8         providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 15.0352, Florida Statutes, is created to
   13  read:
   14         15.0352 Official state birds.—
   15         (1) The American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) is
   16  designated the official Florida state bird.
   17         (2) The Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) is
   18  designated the official Florida state songbird.
   19         Section 2. The designations of the American flamingo as the
   20  official Florida state bird and the Florida scrub-jay as the
   21  official Florida state songbird by s. 15.0352, Florida Statutes,
   22  supersede the designation of the mockingbird as the official
   23  Florida state bird by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 3,
   24  adopted during the 1927 Regular Session.
   25         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.