The Florida Senate

HB 1419: Elections

GENERAL BILL by Young

Elections; Requires that Secretary of State be elected, rather than appointed, & serve specified term; requires Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop & maintain database for specified purpose; provides that driver license or ID card applications, driver license or ID card renewal applications, & applications for changes of address for existing driver licenses or ID cards submitted to DHSMV serve as voter registration applications; requires DHSMV to transmit voter registration information electronically to DOS within specified timeframe; removes provision prohibiting persons providing voter registration services for driver license office from making changes to applicant's party affiliation without applicant's consent & separate signature; revises certain penalties; provides circumstances used to determine whether elections in local government exhibit racially polarized voting; authorizes party that sent notification letter to submit claim for reimbursement from local government; authorizes specified entities to file certain enforcement actions; creates Florida Voting Rights Act Commission within DOS; requires DOS instead of Office of Election Crimes & Security to conduct certain preliminary investigation; establishes General Election Day as paid holiday.

Expand All Collapse All

• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  1/9/2026	House	• Filed

  Top of SectionTop of Page

• HB 1419, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/9/2026 at 2:45 PM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Citations - Statutes (33)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  20.10	Department of State.
  20.32	Florida Commission on Offender Review.
  97.021	Definitions.
  97.022	Office of Election Crimes and Security; creation; purpose and duties.
  97.0291	Prohibition on use of private funds for election-related expenses.
  97.0556
  97.057	Voter registration by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
  97.0575	Third-party voter registration organizations.
  97.21
  97.22
  97.23
  97.24
  97.25
  97.26
  97.27
  97.28
  98.045	Administration of voter registration.
  98.255	Voter education programs.
  100.371	Initiatives; procedure for placement on ballot.
  100.51
  101.016
  101.019	Ranked-choice voting prohibited.
  101.048	Provisional ballots.
  101.572	Public inspection of ballots.
  101.62	Request for vote-by-mail ballots.
  101.64	Delivery of vote-by-mail ballots; envelopes; form.
  101.65	Instructions to absent electors.
  101.68	Canvassing of vote-by-mail ballot.
  101.69	Voting in person; return of vote-by-mail ballot.
  104.0616	Vote-by-mail ballots and voting; violations.
  104.155	Unqualified noncitizen electors willfully voting; prohibited defenses; aiding or soliciting noncitizen electors in voting prohibited.
  104.42	Fraudulent registration and illegal voting; investigation.
  921.0022	Criminal Punishment Code; offense severity ranking chart.

  Top of SectionTop of Page