The Florida Legislature passed eight election-related bills during its 2026 regular and special sessions, all of which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed between April and June.

Among those bills was HB 991, which requires officials to verify whether a prospective voter provided proof of citizenship when applying for a driver’s license or state ID card. If not, the person must provide proof of citizenship to be registered to vote. This also applies to individuals updating their registration due to a change of name, address, or party affiliation. 

If a voter does not provide proof of citizenship, they would be issued a provisional ballot. The ballot would only be counted if the voter provided proof of citizenship before 5 p.m. on the second day following the election.

HB 991 also enacted a number of other election-related policies, including:

• Requiring the Department of State to use information from federal jury coordinators that an individual was disqualified or potentially disqualified from jury service due to not having U.S. citizenship, being convicted of a felony, being deceased, or not being a resident of Florida or the relevant county to identify potentially ineligible voters and voter registration applicants.
• Requiring candidates for federal office to state in writing whether they intend to trade stocks in specified manners while serving in office.
• Adding the following forms of identification to the list of acceptable IDs presented by voters when entering a polling place: U.S. passport cards and U.S. uniformed service or Merchant Marine IDs.
• Removing the following forms of identification from the list of acceptable IDs presented by voters when entering a polling place: debit or credit cards, student IDs, retirement center IDs, neighborhood association IDs, and public assistance IDs.

The Florida Senate passed HB 991 27-12 on March 12, with 26 Republicans and one independent voting in favor and 11 Democrats and one Republican voting against. Later that day, the Florida House of Representatives approved the bill 77-28, with 77 Republicans voting in favor and 27 Democrats and one Republican voting against. DeSantis signed the bill on April 1.

Other election bills enacted in the 2026 regular session include:

• H91, which requires a person running for office to affirm that they have not changed their name during the 365-day period before the qualifying period begins, unless they changed their name while getting married, dissolving a marriage, or adopting a child. 
• H905, which prohibits candidates from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a person from a foreign terrorist organization or a foreign country of concern.
• H7031, which establishes when a county must place a millage referendum for a school district on the ballot.
• S572, which amends the definition of relative for certain campaign finance purposes.
• S1180, which allows for members of the board of supervisors of a community development district to be recalled.

Following an April special session on redistricting, DeSantis signed HB 1-D, which enacted new congressional maps in the state ahead of the 2026 elections. Florida is one of seven states to enact a new congressional map between the 2024 and 2026 elections.

HB 1-D passed the state House 83-28 on April 29, with 81 Republicans and two Democrats voting in favor and 27 Democrats and one Republican voting in opposition. It passed the state Senate 21-17 later that day, with 21 Republicans voting in favor and 12 Democrats, four Republicans, and one independent voting against. DeSantis signed the bill on May 4.

SB 4-F, also passed during a special session, allows a ballot measure summary to exceed the statutory limit of 75 words for a constitutional amendment submitted to the voters on Nov. 3, 2026, regarding certain subsections of Article VII of the state Constitution.

Florida enacted one election-related bill in 2025, five bills or resolutions in 2024, and five bills in 2023.