State AI law
Florida
AI laws
We track 41 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in Florida. 10 have been signed or enacted, and 1 is still moving.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where Florida’s bills stand
41 bills- Introduced
- 0
- In committee
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- Passed a chamber
- 1
- Signed or enacted
- 10
- Dead or vetoed
- 30
Overview
How Florida regulates AI
Florida has 41 published AI-related bills in our register, 10 of them signed or enacted. Every bill below links to its own page with the status, dates and a plain-English summary.
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Not law: passed the Senate but died in the House. Florida's SB 2-D (2026 special session D) would have created an "Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights" (new part IX of ch. 501, F.S.): parental consent and parental controls for minors on companion chatbot platforms, an hourly pop-up telling users a bot is not human, limits on selling AI users' personal data, an AI-image consent rule for commercial use of name, image or likeness, rules for AI in schools and a ban on state contracts with AI vendors tied to foreign countries of concern. The Senate passed it 37-1 on April 28, 2026; it died in the House Information Technology Budget & Policy Subcommittee on April 29, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights
Florida's SB 2-D (2026 special session D), the Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights, would have required companion chatbot platforms to get parental consent before a minor holds an account, required bots to tell users hourly that they are not talking to a human, barred AI companies from selling users' personal information unless deidentified, restricted AI tools in schools, and required AI vendors to government to attest they are not owned, controlled or based in a foreign country of concern. It passed the Senate 37-1 on April 28, 2026, was referred in the House to the Information Technology Budget & Policy Subcommittee, and died there on April 29, 2026. It did not become law.
Public Records/Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs
Florida's SB 4-D (2026 Special Session D) would have made information the Department of Legal Affairs holds about notifications or investigations of violations of the companion chatbot, bot consumer-protection and deidentified-data sections created by SB 2-D (the Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights) confidential and exempt from public records laws. It passed the Senate 33-4 on April 28, 2026 and died in the House Information Technology Budget & Policy Subcommittee on April 29, 2026; it did not become law.
Sexual Offenses
Florida's CS/CS/HB 1159 (Chapter 2026-20) amends s. 827.072, F.S., on generated child sexual abuse material (computer-created or altered images of a fictitious person who appears to be a minor in sexual conduct). Intentionally creating it becomes a second-degree felony (was third-degree), and transmitting it to another person becomes a new second-degree felony; possession or intentional viewing stays a third-degree felony. 'Transmit' now covers sharing cloud-stored material through links or credentials. The act also replaces 'child pornography' with 'child sexual abuse material'. Effective July 1, 2026.
Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Not law: died in committee. Florida's HB 1469 would have amended s. 319.145, F.S., the autonomous vehicle requirements. Per its title, it would have required autonomous vehicles registered in Florida to comply with federal motor vehicle standards, regulations and laws, and barred autonomous vehicles from interstate commerce or carrying passengers or goods for hire unless a licensed human operator is physically present to monitor the vehicle and take control if needed. It died in the Government Operations Subcommittee on March 13, 2026.
Delivery of Commercial Goods by Autonomous Vehicles
Not law: died in committee. Florida's SB 1258 would have added s. 316.85(6), F.S., providing that an autonomous vehicle may not be used to deliver commercial goods directly to a residence or business for use or retail sale unless a licensed human operator is physically present in the vehicle. The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles would have had to report to the Legislature, after consulting the Highway Patrol, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation and independent experts. It died in Transportation on March 13, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Not law: died in committee. Florida's SB 1458 would have created the Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Study Group to examine how AI affects academic integrity (including contract cheating), teaching, advising, grading, research, privacy, intellectual property and data security in the State University System and Florida College System. It would have had to report findings, recommendations and model policies to the Governor, Senate President and House Speaker by December 1, 2026, and the section would have expired December 31, 2026. It died in Education Postsecondary on March 13, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence in Education
Florida's SB 1194 (Jones) would require the State Board of Education to adopt statewide standards and a policy for school and student use of AI, direct the Department of Education to collect AI metrics, train teachers and review district compliance, require instruction in digital literacy and AI ethics for grades 6 to 12, and add AI policies to student codes of conduct. Filed January 6, 2026; it died in the Education Pre-K - 12 Committee March 13, 2026.
Mandatory Human Reviews of Insurance Claim Denials
Not law: passed the House but died in the Senate when the session ended. Florida's CS/CS/HB 527 (2026) would have let workers' compensation carriers, insurers and HMOs use AI to help process claims but barred AI from being the sole basis for denying or reducing a claim; a qualified human professional would have had to review the facts independently and decide, keep records, and tell claimants in writing. The House passed it 108-0 on March 5, 2026; it died in Senate Rules on March 13, 2026.
Eyewitness Identification
Not law: died in committee. Florida's HB 875, the House counterpart of SB 1202, would have amended s. 92.70, F.S., to set eyewitness identification procedures: a recorded description, independent lineup administrators, lineups with the suspect and at least five fillers, limits on show-ups and first-time in-court identifications, and audio and video recording. If facial recognition technology identified a suspect, a lineup could not be held without a basis independent of the technology. It died in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee on March 13, 2026.
Interactions with Artificial Intelligence
Not law: died in committee. Florida's HB 659 would have created s. 501.172, F.S., requiring operators of companion chatbots to display a notice that companion chatbots are AI-generated, not human and may not be suitable for some minors, maintain a protocol against suicide and self-harm content that refers users to the 988 lifeline, offer age verification and, for known minors, disclose the AI, show a break reminder at least every 3 hours and take reasonable measures against sexually explicit material. Annual reports to the Department of Legal Affairs would have started July 1, 2027. It died in subcommittee on March 13, 2026.
Mandatory Human Reviews of Insurance Claim Denials
Not law: died in committee. Florida's SB 202 would have created s. 627.4263, F.S., requiring that an insurer's decision to deny a claim or part of a claim be made by a qualified human professional who independently analyzes the facts and policy and reviews any AI or algorithm output. AI, machine learning or algorithms could not be the sole basis for adjusting or denying a claim. Denial notices would have had to name the human decision-maker, and the Office of Insurance Regulation could conduct market conduct examinations. It died in Banking and Insurance on March 13, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence
Not law: died in subcommittee. Florida's HB 1395 (2026) would have created an "Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights" (new part IX of ch. 501): parental consent and controls for minors on companion chatbot platforms, an hourly not-human pop-up for bots, a ban on selling users' personal information unless deidentified, and consent for commercial use of generative-AI likenesses. It would also have barred government AI contracts with foreign-country-of-concern entities. It died on March 13, 2026.
Eyewitness Identification
Not law: died in committee. Florida's SB 1202 would have amended s. 92.70, F.S., on eyewitness identification: officers would have had to record the eyewitness's description in the offense report, use lineups with the suspect and at least five fillers, make efforts to use a lineup instead of a show-up, and record procedures on audio and video. If facial recognition technology identified a suspect, a lineup could not be held unless there was a basis independent of the facial recognition result. It died in Criminal Justice on March 13, 2026.
Transportation
Not law: died in committee. Florida's CS/SB 1274 was a broad transportation bill. Its AI-related part would have amended s. 339.85 to create the Next-generation Traffic Signal Modernization Grant Program for signals with "artificial intelligence- and machine learning-enabled" detection, controllers, communications and software, with $20 million a year from FY 2026-2027. It also would have allowed private license plate recognition systems on property the entity owns or controls. It died in Appropriations on March 13, 2026; companion SB 488 became Chapter 2026-39, but its enrolled text has neither provision.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Psychological, Clinical, Counseling, and Therapy Services
Florida's SB 344 (Grall) would create ss. 490.016 and 491.019, prohibiting licensees from using AI in the practice of psychology and school psychology, and licensees, registered interns and certificateholders from using AI in clinical social work, marriage and family therapy and mental health counseling, with exceptions for administrative support and consented session recording. Filed November 4, 2025; it died in the Health Policy Committee March 13, 2026.
Companion Artificial Intelligence Chatbots
Not law: died in committee. SB 1344 would have required operators of companion AI chatbots in Florida (bots built mainly to simulate friendship, companionship, emotional or therapeutic conversation) to require user accounts and verify every user's age, freezing existing accounts on July 1, 2026 until verified. Minors would have needed a verified parental account and parental consent and been blocked from bots that suggest sexually explicit communication, and every user would have seen a pop-up at the start and every 60 minutes saying they are not talking to a human. It died in the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee on March 13, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights
Not law: passed the Senate but died in the House when the session ended. Florida's CS/SB 482 (2026), the "Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights," would have required parental consent and controls for minors on companion chatbot platforms, an hourly not-human notice from bot operators, deidentified data for any sale of user data by AI companies, consent for generative-AI likenesses, and rules for AI tools in schools. The Senate passed it 35-2 on March 4, 2026; it died in House Messages on March 13, 2026.
Use of Artificial Intelligence by State Agencies
Not law: died in committee. Florida's SB 146 would have required the Florida Digital Service to conduct a study of the impact of state agencies procuring, implementing or operating AI-powered technology, including a list of agencies that use AI, the purposes of each agency's use and the cost to procure, implement and operate it. A written report would have been due to the Governor, Senate President and House Speaker by March 1, 2027. It died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability on March 13, 2026.
CyberBay
Florida's Senate Resolution 1816 recognizes CyberBay as a cybersecurity and artificial intelligence innovation region within the Tampa Bay area. It acknowledges Florida's leadership in cybersecurity preparedness and the roles of the University of South Florida, its Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing, Cyber Florida, municipal partners and private-sector stakeholders in workforce development and innovation, and affirms the importance of continued public-private collaboration. Adopted by the Senate March 12, 2026; a resolution of one chamber that does not change the law.
Technology Education
Not law: died when the 2026 session ended. Florida's CS/SB 1694 (2026) would have required general education core courses that integrate technology to give students chances to improve digital literacy and to include instruction on applying AI tools to the course, and would have said high school computer science courses with AI instruction "should provide" a foundational understanding of AI. On March 6, 2026 the Senate substituted House bill CS/CS/HB 1503 and laid SB 1694 on the table; HB 1503 passed both chambers in different versions and died in returning Messages on March 13.
Statewide Study on Automation and Workforce Impact
Vetoed. Florida's SB 936 and its identical House bill, HB 827, would have required the Bureau of Workforce Statistics and Economic Research in the Department of Commerce to study the economic impact of automation, AI and robotics on employment, focusing on job losses and gains, and report to the Governor and legislative leaders by December 1, 2025 and every 3 years after. On April 29, 2025 the Senate substituted HB 827 for SB 936 and laid SB 936 on the table; HB 827 passed both chambers (House 112-1, Senate 35-0) and the Governor vetoed it on June 27, 2025.
Use of Artificial Intelligence to Detect Firearms
Not law. SB 562 would have banned using artificial intelligence, including with cameras, video recording or live-streaming devices, to detect firearms in public areas in Florida, making it a first-degree misdemeanor. School grounds and the places where a concealed-carry license does not authorize carrying were exempt. It was indefinitely postponed and withdrawn on May 3, 2025 and died in the Criminal Justice Committee.
Provenance of Digital Content
Not law: died in committee. The committee substitute for Florida's SB 702 would have required online content purporting to feature an electoral candidate to carry provenance data if made with generative AI, and required generative AI providers to apply provenance data to content wholly generated by their tools and offer public detection tools and a free provenance reader. Social media platforms would have retained and shown provenance data, capture devices sold in Florida would have needed an option to record it, and violations would have been unfair or deceptive acts under s. 501.204 enforced by the Attorney General after a 30-day cure period. Died in Ethics and Elections June 16, 2025.
K-12 School Transportation
Not law: died in committee. Florida's SB 1424 (2025) would have revised school transportation rules in ss. 1002.20, 1006.21 and 1006.23, F.S.: transport for students living more than 1 mile from school, bus stops within 1,000 feet of the home, faster and more efficient routes, and use of AI route programs "if available" within 3 years, with a 15 percent cut in state transportation funds for districts that did not. It was indefinitely postponed May 3 and died in Education Pre-K - 12 on June 16, 2025.
Insurers' Liabilities and Responsibilities
Florida's HB 1555 (Cassel) would require insurers' claim denials to be reviewed, approved and signed off by a qualified human professional, bar AI, machine learning algorithms and automated systems from serving as the basis for denying a claim, and require surplus lines insurers to comply with the valued policy law. Filed February 28, 2025; indefinitely postponed May 3, 2025; it died in the Insurance & Banking Subcommittee June 16, 2025.
Mandatory Human Reviews of Insurance Claim Denials
Florida's CS/SB 794 (Banking and Insurance Committee; Bradley) would require an insurer's decision to deny a claim or part of a claim to be made by a qualified human professional and bar algorithms, AI and machine learning systems from being the sole basis for determining whether to adjust or deny a claim. Committee substitute reported 9-0 on March 25, 2025; it died in Appropriations on June 16, 2025.
Removal of Altered Sexual Depictions Posted without Consent
Florida's CS/CS/HB 1161 (Chapter 2025-133), Brooke's Law, amends s. 836.13, F.S. Covered platforms (sites, services or apps that mainly host user content, or regularly make nonconsensual altered sexual depictions available) had to set up by December 31, 2025 a process for people to request removal of sexual deepfakes of them posted without consent. Within 48 hours of a valid request the platform must remove the content and make reasonable efforts to remove identical copies, and it must post plain-language notice of the process. Good-faith removals are immune; unreasonable noncompliance is a FDUTPA violation. Effective June 10, 2025.
Sexual Images
Florida's CS/CS/HB 757 (Chapter 2025-99) extends s. 836.13, F.S., on altered sexual depictions (sexual deepfakes) to their creation. 'Generate' means creating or altering an image by computer or other means to portray an identifiable person, or offering or agreeing to do so. Willfully generating, or soliciting, an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without consent, or possessing one with intent to maliciously promote it, is a third-degree felony. New s. 800.045 covers lewd images of an identifiable minor, including images created or altered by electronic means. Effective October 1, 2025.
Education
Florida's CS/HB 1361 (Chapter 2024-162) amends s. 1002.321(3), F.S., to fund school district grants for artificial intelligence platforms that support learning in grades 6-12. A recipient must pick a platform that uses a GPT-4-class large language model (or equivalent or successor) on a closed system, trains teachers, gives one-on-one tutoring aligned to Florida's B.E.S.T. standards, provides standards-aligned lesson plans and progress insights, and offers district and school reporting and parental access to the AI interactions. The University of Florida Lastinger Center awards the grants. Effective July 1, 2024.
Artificial Intelligence Use in Political Advertising
Florida's HB 919 (s. 106.145, F.S.) requires political ads, electioneering communications and other political advertisements to prominently state "Created in whole or in part with the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI)." when they contain AI-generated content that appears to depict a real person doing something that did not happen, created with intent to injure a candidate or deceive about a ballot issue. A person paying for, sponsoring or approving the ad who omits the disclaimer commits a first-degree misdemeanor; anyone may complain to the Florida Elections Commission, which holds expedited hearings. Approved April 26, 2024 (Chapter 2024-126); effective July 1, 2024.
Advanced Technology
Florida's CS/CS/SB 1680 (Chapter 2024-118) creates the Government Technology Modernization Council (s. 282.802, F.S.), chaired by the Lieutenant Governor, to study AI in government: a state code of ethics for AI systems, AI safety and security standards, how automated decision systems affect legal rights, how bad actors exploit AI, and provenance disclosure for AI-generated images and audio. It reports each December 31 from 2024. New s. 827.072 makes knowingly possessing or intentionally viewing, or intentionally creating, generated child pornography (computer-created or altered images of a fictitious minor) a third-degree felony. Effective July 1, 2024.
Public Records/Artificial Intelligence Transparency Violations
Not law: died in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Florida's SB 1682 (2024) would have made confidential and exempt from public records the information the Department of Legal Affairs receives from notices of violations of a proposed AI transparency section (s. 501.174) or from its investigations, until the investigation is completed or ceases to be active. Its linked bill CS/CS/SB 1680 became Chapter 2024-118, but as enacted it did not create s. 501.174 or this exemption, so none of SB 1682 became law.
Artificial Intelligence
Not law: died in committee. Florida's SB 972 (2024) would have created a nine-member Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council in the Department of Management Services, required each state agency to inventory its automated decision systems by July 1, 2025, and barred counties, municipalities and political subdivisions from regulating private or public use of AI. It died March 8, 2024. None of it became law through companion CS/CS/SB 1680 (Ch. 2024-118), which instead created a different advisory body, the Government Technology Modernization Council.
Advanced Technology
Laid on the table; parts became law through its companion. Florida's CS/CS/CS/HB 1459 (2024) would have created the Government Technology Modernization Council, required safety and transparency disclosures for commercial AI-generated chatbot, image, audio and video output (s. 501.174), and made generated child pornography a third-degree felony. Companion CS/CS/SB 1680 (Chapter 2024-118, approved April 26, 2024, effective July 1, 2024) enacted the council and the generated child pornography crimes, but not the AI transparency and disclosure rules.
Sexually Related Offenses
Florida's CS/CS/SB 1798 (Chapter 2022-212) created s. 836.13, F.S. An altered sexual depiction is an image modified by digital or other means to show a realistic identifiable person with another person's or computer-generated nude body parts, or in sexual conduct they did not engage in. Willfully and maliciously promoting one without consent, knowing it is altered, is a third-degree felony; a disclaimer is no defense. Victims may sue for an injunction, the greater of $10,000 or actual damages, and attorney fees. Effective October 1, 2022.
Autonomous Vehicles
Florida's CS/CS/HB 1289 (Chapter 2021-233) defines a low-speed autonomous delivery vehicle (fully autonomous, meeting the federal low-speed vehicle standard, not built to carry people) and lets it run on roads posted at 35 mph or less and, under conditions, up to 45 mph (about one continuous mile unless allowed more, right lane, pulling over for queued traffic). It needs specified lights and identification and autonomous-vehicle insurance, which the owner, teleoperation system owner or remote operator may provide. Equipment rules aimed at human drivers do not apply to fully autonomous vehicles. Effective July 1, 2021.
Autonomous Vehicles
Florida's HB 311 lets fully autonomous vehicles operate in Florida whether or not a human operator is in the vehicle, needing no licensed human operator, and deems the automated driving system the operator when engaged. Fully autonomous vehicles must be able to reach a minimal risk condition if the system fails. On-demand autonomous vehicle networks follow transportation network company law, with $1 million primary liability, PIP and uninsured motorist coverage while logged on. Local governments may not impose taxes, fees or other requirements on autonomous vehicles. Approved June 13, 2019 (Chapter 2019-101); effective July 1, 2019.
Autonomous Vehicles
Florida's CS/SB 712 (2018, committee substitute) would have let a fully autonomous vehicle operate in Florida whether or not a licensed human operator is physically present, with the automated driving system deemed the operator. It would have required fully autonomous vehicles to carry at least $500,000 in combined liability coverage (plus PIP and uninsured motorist coverage), allowed the Florida Turnpike Enterprise to build test facilities, and exempted autonomous vehicles from the in-vehicle video display ban. Scheduled to take effect July 1, 2018, it died in Banking and Insurance on March 10, 2018.
Autonomous Vehicles
Not law: died in committee. Florida's CS/HB 725 (2017) would have let a person with a valid driver license engage a vehicle's autonomous technology and treated that person as the operator for traffic laws, deemed the technology validly licensed in autonomous mode, and required registered autonomous vehicles to alert people to a technology failure and, if no human takes control, be capable of bringing the vehicle to a complete stop. It was indefinitely postponed and died in the Government Accountability Committee on May 5, 2017.
Vehicles with Autonomous Technology
Florida's CS/HB 1207 (2012) defines an autonomous vehicle as one equipped with technology that can drive without active human control or monitoring, lets a person with a valid driver license operate one in autonomous mode (that person is the operator), sets equipment standards for registration, and permits testing by manufacturers' designees with a human monitor (except on a closed course) after proof of $5 million in insurance. The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles must report to the Legislature by February 12, 2014. Approved April 13, 2012 (Chapter 2012-111); effective July 1, 2012.
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