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Ileana Garcia
Republican · Senator

Ileana Garcia

Represents District 36 in the State Senate.

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Votes with Republicans
78%
on 46 party-line votes · Senate Republicans median 97%
Cast a vote
91%
Yea or Nay on 671 of 734 roll calls · Senate median 97%
Their bills that became law
1 of 30
as a primary sponsor, this session · Republicans median 3
Roll calls on record
734
2026 Regular Session
Votes and bills updated Oct 10, 2026 from LegiScan (CC BY 4.0), which republishes the legislature’s own records. Profile details from OpenStates / Plural Policy. Figures cover 2026 Regular Session.

How Ileana Garcia votes

A party-line vote is a roll call where most voting Democrats and most voting Republicans took opposite sides. Absences and not-voting are never counted. Same method as our Congress pages.

Where Ileana Garcia sits in the Senate

Each dot is one member of the Senate, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. Ileana Garcia is circled.

Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side
Times they broke with their party

10 of 46 party-line votes.

S1296 · Public Employees Relations Commission
In plain English Revises rules for the Public Employees Relations Commission regarding subpoenas, employee organization registration, election procedures, bargaining unit petitions, and filing charges.
Nay
Senate: Third Reading RCS#33 · 2026-03-06 · Passed 20–14 · most Republicans voted the other way
S1296 · Public Employees Relations Commission
In plain English Revises rules for the Public Employees Relations Commission regarding subpoenas, employee organization registration, election procedures, bargaining unit petitions, and filing charges.
Nay
Senate: Third Reading RCS#34 · 2026-03-05 · Passed 21–13 · most Republicans voted the other way
H1473 · Pub. Rec./Terrorist Organizations
Nay
Senate: Third Reading RCS#37 · 2026-03-05 · Passed 26–8 · most Republicans voted the other way
H1471 · Systems of Law and Terrorist Organizations
Nay
Senate: Third Reading RCS#33 · 2026-03-05 · Passed 25–11 · most Republicans voted the other way
S1134 · Official Actions of Local Governments
In plain English Prohibits counties and municipalities from funding, promoting, or taking official action related to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
Yea
Senate: Third Reading RCS#16 · 2026-03-04 · Failed 13–21 · most Republicans voted the other way
S0354 · Blue Ribbon Projects
Nay
Senate Rules · 2026-03-03 · Failed 12–10 · most Republicans voted the other way
S0896 · School Safety
Nay
Senate Appropriations · 2026-02-24 · Passed 11–6 · most Republicans voted the other way
S1506 · Civil Litigation
Nay
Senate Rules · 2026-02-17 · Failed 11–13 · most Republicans voted the other way
S1118 · Public Records/Data Centers
Nay
Senate Rules · 2026-02-17 · Passed 16–8 · most Republicans voted the other way
S1396 · Litigation Financing Consumer Protection
Nay
Senate Rules · 2026-02-03 · Passed 13–10 · most Republicans voted the other way
Closest votes they cast

Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.

S0354 · Blue Ribbon Projects
Nay
Senate Rules · 2026-03-03 · Failed 12–10
S1634 · Public Records/Chief of Domestic Security
Yea
Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice · 2026-02-25 · Passed 5–3
S1632 · Ideologies Inconsistent with American Principles
Yea
Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice · 2026-02-25 · Passed 5–3
S0536 · Criteria for Determining Criminal Gang Membership
Yea
Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice · 2026-02-25 · Passed 5–3
S1506 · Civil Litigation
Nay
Senate Rules · 2026-02-17 · Failed 11–13
Democrats they vote with most

Share of contested roll calls (the losing side got at least 10%) where both voted and landed on the same side. Unanimous votes are left out, because on those everyone agrees.

Darryl RousonDemocrat · District 16 · 49 shared contested votes
61%
Mack BernardDemocrat · District 24 · 35 shared contested votes
51%
Shev JonesDemocrat · District 34 · 40 shared contested votes
45%
Their session, month by month

Dark bars are roll calls they were recorded on each month; the red part is the ones without a Yea or Nay (63 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.

2025-11: 4 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-12: 9 roll calls, 9 without a Yea or Nay2026-01: 109 roll calls, 19 without a Yea or Nay2026-02: 355 roll calls, 20 without a Yea or Nay2026-03: 257 roll calls, 15 without a Yea or NayNov 2025Jan 2026Mar 2026
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Their bills, from filing to law

Bills Ileana Garcia was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.

Introduced30
Out of committee3
Passed one chamber3
Passed both chambers1
Became law1
Never left committee2

For comparison, the median Republican member of the Senate has 3 bills that became law this session.

Coastal Resiliency
Prohibiting the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund from approving the dredging or filling of the submerged lands of the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve unless such dredging and filling occurs for certain reasons; authorizing certain dredging and filling of submerged lands and…
Became lawChapter No. 2026-1 · 2026-03-20
Access to Applied Behavior Analysis Services
Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to consider certain factors when evaluating network adequacy for applied behavior analysis services under the Medicaid program; requiring Medicaid managed care plans to take reasonable steps to support workforce retention and recruitment; requiring managed care plans to notify…
FailedDied in Health Policy · 2026-03-13
Caller Identification Information
Prohibiting the transmission of misleading or inaccurate caller identification information; requiring a telecommunications company to provide the telephone number and location from which each telephone call originates; defining the term "STIR/SHAKEN authentication framework"; requiring each telecommunications company to file a certification with the Federal Communications…
FailedDied in Regulated Industries · 2026-03-13
Structure and Legislative Oversight of Executive Agencies
Providing that divisions, offices, bureaus, sections, and subsections in an executive department may be established only by specific statutory enactment; providing that certain appointments made by the Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation are subject to review and approval by the Legislature; providing that certain…
FailedDied in Governmental Oversight and Accountability · 2026-03-13
Required Notice of Intent to Contact a Victim
Requiring specified persons acting on behalf of a criminal defendant to file a specified notice within a specified timeframe before contacting a victim in a criminal proceeding for a specified purpose; requiring that such notice be filed on a standard form developed by the state…
FailedDied in Criminal Justice · 2026-03-13
Coral Reefs
Revising legislative findings; providing a legislative designation, etc.
FailedDied in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government · 2026-03-13
Redesignations of State University and Florida College System Institution Roads
Requiring state university and Florida College System institution boards of trustees to redesignate specified roads or portions of roads to certain names relating to Charlie James Kirk within a specified time period; requiring that state funds be withheld for any university or institution that fails…
FailedDied in Transportation · 2026-03-13
Handling of Animals
Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to develop and adopt rules, best management practices, and other measures for dog breeding in this state; deleting a limit on veterinary costs under certain provisions; specifying requirements for retail stores that offer animals for sale; requiring…
FailedDied in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government · 2026-03-13
Small Employer Health Insurance
Deleting and revising definitions; deleting provisions relating to the creation of the Florida Small Employer Health Reinsurance Program, etc.
FailedDied in Banking and Insurance · 2026-03-13
Labor Pool Act
Prohibiting a labor pool from charging a certain fee to a third-party user if such user directly employs a laborer for work; requiring a labor pool to register annually with the Department of Commerce; revising the remedies, damages, and costs a court may award the…
FailedDied in Messages · 2026-03-13
Public Records/Autopsy Reports of Certain Sudden and Unexpected deaths
Creating an exemption from public records requirements for autopsy reports of certain sudden and unexpected deaths; specifying circumstances under which such autopsy reports and certain information contained therein may be disclosed; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of…
FailedDied in Health Policy · 2026-03-13
Prohibited Contracting with Covered Foreign Entities
Defining the term "covered foreign entity"; providing that a covered foreign entity is ineligible to bid or submit a proposal for a contract with an agency for certain goods or services; requiring an entity to certify in its bid or proposal that it is not…
FailedDied in Governmental Oversight and Accountability · 2026-03-13
Taking and Exporting Aquatic Animal Species
Citing this act as the "Marine and Aquatic Native Threatened Animal Protection Act"; prohibiting the taking, possession, transportation, or exportation of endangered, threatened, or vulnerable aquatic animal species from state waters for certain purposes; prohibiting the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission from issuing, renewing, or…
FailedDied in Environment and Natural Resources · 2026-03-13
Online Media Transparency
Creating the "Online Media Transparency Act"; requiring certain content creators to clearly and conspicuously disclose any sponsorship within any related media content; providing that failure to disclose a sponsorship constitutes an unfair or deceptive act or practice; requiring a content creator who receives sponsorship from…
FailedDied in Commerce and Tourism · 2026-03-13
Fees/Homeowners' Associations
Requiring each homeowners' association that operates more than two parcels to pay to the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes an annual fee for each residential parcel operated by the association; requiring that the association be assessed a specified penalty of the amount…
FailedDied in Regulated Industries · 2026-03-13

Descriptions are the legislature’s own synopsis. Bill data from LegiScan, CC BY 4.0.

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S0628 · 2026-03-13
Transportation Facility Designations (Senate: Third Reading RCS#2)
Passed · 31-4
Absent
H1389 · 2026-03-13
Affordable Housing (Senate: Third Reading RCS#3)
Passed · 35-0
Absent
H1451 · 2026-03-13
Utility Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#4)
Passed · 30-6
Absent
H1279 · 2026-03-13
Education (Senate: Third Reading RCS#5)
Passed · 36-1
Absent
S0484 · 2026-03-13
Data Centers (Senate: Third Reading RCS#6)
Passed · 31-6
Absent
H0399 · 2026-03-13
Land Use and Development Regulations (Senate: Third Reading RCS#8)
Failed · 17-20
Absent
H0399 · 2026-03-13
Land Use and Development Regulations (Senate: Third Reading RCS#9)
Passed · 27-11
Absent
S0572 · 2026-03-12
Ethics for Public Officers and Employees (Senate: Third Reading RCS#3)
Passed · 38-0
Yea
S0474 · 2026-03-12
Military Affairs (Senate: Third Reading RCS#6)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
H0425 · 2026-03-12
Historic Cemeteries Program (Senate: Third Reading RCS#8)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
H0991 · 2026-03-12
Elections (Senate: Third Reading RCS#4)
Passed · 27-12
Yea
S0182 · 2026-03-12
Education (Senate: Third Reading RCS#5)
Passed · 37-0
Yea
H0733 · 2026-03-12
Department of Health (Senate: Third Reading RCS#12)
Passed · 37-0
Yea
S0288 · 2026-03-12
Rural Electric Cooperatives (Senate: Third Reading RCS#19)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
S1062 · 2026-03-12
Speech and Debate Education (Senate: Third Reading RCS#7)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
H0035 · 2026-03-12
Habitual Traffic Offender Designation (Senate: Third Reading RCS#10)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
H0929 · 2026-03-12
Local Government Regulation of Chickees (Senate: Third Reading RCS#9)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
S0118 · 2026-03-12
Assessments Levied on Recreational Vehicle Parks (Senate: Third Reading RCS#2)
Passed · 38-0
Yea
S1452 · 2026-03-12
Department of Financial Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#21)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
S1246 · 2026-03-12
Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund (Senate: Third Reading RCS#15)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
S1668 · 2026-03-12
Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (Senate: Third Reading RCS#18)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
H1085 · 2026-03-12
Local Government Cyber Security (Senate: Third Reading RCS#20)
Passed · 39-0
Yea
H0905 · 2026-03-12
Foreign Influence (Senate: Third Reading RCS#13)
Passed · 28-11
Yea
H0851 · 2026-03-12
Professional Learning for Instructional and School Administrative Personnel (Senate: Third Reading RCS#17)
Passed · 38-0
NV
H0589 · 2026-03-11
Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal System Permits (Senate: Third Reading RCS#7)
Passed · 38-0
Yea
H0925 · 2026-03-11
Clerks of the Court (Senate: Third Reading RCS#5)
Passed · 38-0
Yea
H1085 · 2026-03-11
Local Government Cyber Security (Senate: Third Reading RCS#4)
Passed · 37-0
NV
H0679 · 2026-03-11
Registration of Trademarks (Senate: Third Reading RCS#6)
Passed · 38-0
Yea
H0991 · 2026-03-11
Elections (Senate: Third Reading RCS#8)
Failed · 12-24
NV
H0355 · 2026-03-11
Health Care Patient Protection (Senate: Third Reading RCS#2)
Passed · 36-0
NV
H1121 · 2026-03-11
Aging and Disability Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#10)
Passed · 35-0
Yea
S0246 · 2026-03-11
Specialty License Plates (Senate: Third Reading RCS#15)
Passed · 37-0
Yea
H1113 · 2026-03-11
Pub. Rec./Crime Victims (Senate: Third Reading RCS#3)
Passed · 33-4
NV
H4065 · 2026-03-11
West Palm Beach Firefighters Pension Fund, Palm Beach County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#48)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4051 · 2026-03-11
Pace Fire Rescue District, Santa Rosa County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#41)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
S1602 · 2026-03-11
Housing for Veterans (Senate: Third Reading RCS#21)
Passed · 37-0
Yea
H4053 · 2026-03-11
Avalon Beach-Mulat Fire Protection District, Santa Rosa County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#42)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4017 · 2026-03-11
Nassau County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#27)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4091 · 2026-03-11
Sarasota and Manatee Counties (Senate: Third Reading RCS#57)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4059 · 2026-03-11
Compensation for Health Care Services for Inmates in Polk County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#45)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
S0628 · 2026-03-11
Transportation Facility Designations (Senate: Third Reading RCS#22)
Passed · 34-3
Yea
H4007 · 2026-03-11
Martin County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#64)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4081 · 2026-03-11
Eastpoint Water and Sewer District, Franklin County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#53)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4043 · 2026-03-11
Citrus County Hospital Board, Citrus County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#37)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4047 · 2026-03-11
Lee County Tourist Development Council, Lee County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#39)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4079 · 2026-03-11
Marion County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#52)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4037 · 2026-03-11
Pasco County Mosquito Control District, Pasco County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#34)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4001 · 2026-03-11
Jefferson County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#61)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
S0178 · 2026-03-11
Athletics in Public K-12 Schools (Senate: Third Reading RCS#14)
Passed · 37-0
Yea
H4035 · 2026-03-11
Palm Beach County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#33)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H1451 · 2026-03-11
Utility Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#11)
Passed · 29-6
Yea
S0488 · 2026-03-11
Transportation (Senate: Third Reading RCS#17)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4071 · 2026-03-11
Palm Beach County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#50)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4029 · 2026-03-11
Hillsborough County Charter (Senate: Third Reading RCS#31)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4087 · 2026-03-11
Highlands County Hospital District (Senate: Third Reading RCS#55)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4019 · 2026-03-11
Compensation for Health Care Services for Inmates in Lake County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#28)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4011 · 2026-03-11
St. Lucie County Mosquito Control District, St. Lucie County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#65)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4095 · 2026-03-11
Headwaters Water Control District, Indian River County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#59)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H4067 · 2026-03-11
Plantation Acres Improvement District, Broward County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#49)
Passed · 36-0
Yea
H1217 · 2026-03-11
Prohibited Governmental Policies Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Senate: Third Reading RCS#23)
Passed · 24-12
Yea
Complete voting record from LegiScan (showing the 60 most recent of 734 total roll-call votes this session).
Voting data provided by LegiScan, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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