Florida SB 420: Motor Vehicle Insurance Coverage Exclusions

Bill Text

420 
Patriotic Displays at Public Schools 
2026-01-30T11:08:34Z 
Requiring, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require the display of portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at each public school in the district; requiring the Department of Education to select the portraits and make them available to each school district, etc. 
Committee Substitute 1 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for SB 420 

 By the Appropriations Committee on Pre-K - 12 Education; and 
 Senators Burgess, Yarborough, and Gaetz 

 602-02300-26 2026420c1 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to patriotic displays at public 
 3 schools; amending s. 1003.44, F.S.; requiring, subject 
 4 to legislative appropriation, each district school 
 5 board to adopt rules to require the display of 
 6 portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln at 
 7 each public school in the district; requiring the 
 8 Department of Education to select the portraits and 
 9 make them available to each school district; providing 
 10 an effective date. 
 11 
 12 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 13 
 14 Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 1003.44, Florida 
 15 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 16 1003.44 Patriotic programs; rules.— 
 17 (4) Each district school board shall adopt rules to 
 18 require, in all of the schools of the district and in each 
 19 building used by the district school board:, 
 20 (a) The display of the state motto, “In God We Trust,” 
 21 designated under s. 15.0301, in a conspicuous place at each 
 22 public school in the district and in each building used by the 
 23 district school board. 
 24 (b) Subject to legislative appropriation, the display of 
 25 portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in a 
 26 conspicuous place at each public school in the district. The 
 27 Department of Education shall select the portraits and make them 
 28 available to each school district. 
 29 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.