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FL S0440

Bill

Status

Failed

6/16/2025

Primary Sponsor

Governmental Oversight and Accountability

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes the "Freedom of Conscience in the Workplace Act," creating s. 110.1051, F.S., which declares it is state policy that sex is an immutable biological trait and defines "gender ideology" and "gender identity" in explicitly critical terms

  • Prohibits state, county, municipal, and special district employers from requiring employees or contractors to use pronouns that do not correspond to a person's biological sex as a condition of employment or to avoid adverse personnel action

  • Prohibits employees and contractors from requiring their government employer to use preferred pronouns that do not correspond to the individual's biological sex

  • Requires that job applications and related employment forms offering a sex field provide only "male" or "female" options, with no nonbinary or other alternative selections

  • Makes it an unlawful employment practice for the state or any political subdivision to require training, instruction, or other activity on gender identity or gender expression as a condition of employment, with violations subject to administrative and civil remedies under s. 760.11, F.S., effective July 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Gender Identity Employment Practices

Last Action

Died in Judiciary

6/16/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/26/2025

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