Nonpartisan · Data from OpenStates / Plural Policy · Florida
Republican
· Senator
Colleen Burton
Represents District 12 in the State Senate.
Votes with Republicans
97%
on 60 party-line votes · Senate Republicans median 97%
Cast a vote
99%
Yea or Nay on 745 of 756 roll calls · Senate median 97%
Their bills that became law
3 of 11
as a primary sponsor, this session · Republicans median 3
Roll calls on record
756
2026 Regular Session
Votes and bills updated Oct 4, 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 Colleen Burton 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 Colleen Burton 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. Colleen Burton is circled.
Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side
Times they broke with their party
2 of 60 party-line votes.
S1756 · Medical Freedom
Senate: Third Reading RCS#4 · 2026-03-09 · Passed 23–15 · most Republicans voted the other way
S1756 · Medical Freedom
Senate Rules · 2026-03-03 · Passed 14–8 · most Republicans voted the other way
Closest votes they cast
Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.
S0164 · Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child
Senate Judiciary · 2025-11-04 · Failed 5–4
S0354 · Blue Ribbon Projects
Senate Rules · 2026-03-03 · Failed 12–10
S1298 · Public Records/Public Employees Relations Commission
Senate Fiscal Policy · 2026-03-02 · Failed 8–10
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.
Senate Fiscal Policy · 2026-03-02 · Failed 10–8
S1506 · Civil Litigation
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 · 51 shared contested votes
51%
Barbara ShariefDemocrat · District 35 · 30 shared contested votes
37%
Mack BernardDemocrat · District 24 · 42 shared contested votes
33%
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 (11 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.
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Their bills, from filing to law
Bills Colleen Burton 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.
Introduced11
Out of committee3
Passed one chamber3
Passed both chambers3
Became law3
Never left committee4
For comparison, the median Republican member of the Senate has 3 bills that became law this session.
Local Housing Assistance Plans
In plain English Allows counties and eligible municipalities to use certain funds to help mobile home owners pay lot rent and for home repairs.
Official synopsis: Authorizing counties and eligible municipalities to expend certain funds on lot rental assistance for mobile home owners for a specified time period; requiring each county and eligible municipality to include in its local housing assistance plan certain strategies; authorizing counties and eligible municipalities to provide…
Became lawChapter No. 2026-173 · 2026-06-29
Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association
In plain English Requires the state to recover Medicaid costs from the Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association and revises plan eligibility and coverage requirements.
Official synopsis: Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to recover from the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association specified costs incurred by Medicaid; revising the exclusiveness of rights and remedies of the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan; revising services eligible for compensation under certain annual…
Became lawChapter No. 2026-127 · 2026-06-12
Memory Care
In plain English Requires assisted living facilities providing memory care services to obtain a special license and meet specified requirements.
Official synopsis: Requiring licenses for assisted living facilities that provide memory care services; making technical changes; requiring an assisted living facility that serves memory care residents or holds itself out as providing memory care services to obtain a memory care services license; providing an exception; requiring an…
Became lawChapter No. 2026-102 · 2026-05-26
Florida Polytechnic University Day
Recognizing February 17, 2026, as "Florida Polytechnic University Day" in Florida, etc.
FailedDied, not introduced · 2026-03-13
Litigation Financing Consumer Protection
Citing this act as the "Litigation Investment Safeguards and Transparency Act"; authorizing courts to consider the existence of a litigation financing agreement under certain circumstances; prohibiting specified acts by litigation financiers; requiring certain parties to a legal proceeding, or their counsels of record, which have…
Not out of committeeDied on Calendar · 2026-03-13
Charitable Giving
Prohibiting a charitable organization that accepts a contribution pursuant to a written donor-imposed restriction from violating the terms of that restriction; requiring a charitable organization to notify a donor, or a donor's legal representative, if it cannot fulfill a term in the endowment agreement and…
Not out of committeeDied on Calendar · 2026-03-13
Public Records/Department of Legal Affairs/Artificial Intelligence Violations
Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information relating to investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs of certain violations relating to artificial intelligence violations; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
FailedDied in Commerce and Tourism · 2026-03-13
Companion Artificial Intelligence Chatbots
Requiring operators to require an individual seeking access to a companion AI chatbot to create a user account; requiring operators to take certain actions if the age verification process determines that a user is a minor; requiring operators to protect the confidentiality of age verification…
FailedDied in Commerce and Tourism · 2026-03-13
Public Adjuster Contracts
Authorizing certain persons to rescind a contract for public adjuster services; clarifying the acts that may subject a public adjuster or public adjuster apprentice to discipline; authorizing certain persons to rescind a contract for public adjuster services, etc.
FailedDied in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs · 2026-03-13
Temporary Certificates for Practice in Areas of Critical Need
Revising the conditions under which the Board of Medicine, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Board of Nursing, respectively, are authorized to issue temporary certificates for practice in areas of critical need; authorizing certificateholders to continue primary care services after such areas lose their…
Not out of committeeLaid on Table, refer to CS/HB 809 · 2026-03-06
Payment Stablecoin
Revising the Florida Control of Money Laundering in Money Services Business Act to include payment stablecoins; prohibiting persons from engaging in the activity of a qualified payment stablecoin issuer without being licensed or exempted from licensure; requiring applicants seeking to be a qualified payment stablecoin…
Not out of committeeLaid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 175 · 2026-03-05
“In plain English” lines are written by ThePolitibase with AI (Claude), from the official synopsis only; the synopsis is the authoritative text. 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)
H1389 · 2026-03-13
Affordable Housing (Senate: Third Reading RCS#3)
H1451 · 2026-03-13
Utility Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#4)
H1279 · 2026-03-13
Education (Senate: Third Reading RCS#5)
S0484 · 2026-03-13
Data Centers (Senate: Third Reading RCS#6)
H0399 · 2026-03-13
Land Use and Development Regulations (Senate: Third Reading RCS#8)
H0399 · 2026-03-13
Land Use and Development Regulations (Senate: Third Reading RCS#9)
S0572 · 2026-03-12
Ethics for Public Officers and Employees (Senate: Third Reading RCS#3)
S0474 · 2026-03-12
Military Affairs (Senate: Third Reading RCS#6)
H0425 · 2026-03-12
Historic Cemeteries Program (Senate: Third Reading RCS#8)
H0991 · 2026-03-12
Elections (Senate: Third Reading RCS#4)
S0182 · 2026-03-12
Education (Senate: Third Reading RCS#5)
H0733 · 2026-03-12
Department of Health (Senate: Third Reading RCS#12)
S0288 · 2026-03-12
Rural Electric Cooperatives (Senate: Third Reading RCS#19)
S1062 · 2026-03-12
Speech and Debate Education (Senate: Third Reading RCS#7)
H0035 · 2026-03-12
Habitual Traffic Offender Designation (Senate: Third Reading RCS#10)
H0929 · 2026-03-12
Local Government Regulation of Chickees (Senate: Third Reading RCS#9)
S0118 · 2026-03-12
Assessments Levied on Recreational Vehicle Parks (Senate: Third Reading RCS#2)
S1452 · 2026-03-12
Department of Financial Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#21)
S1246 · 2026-03-12
Linking Industry to Nursing Education Fund (Senate: Third Reading RCS#15)
S1668 · 2026-03-12
Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (Senate: Third Reading RCS#18)
H1085 · 2026-03-12
Local Government Cyber Security (Senate: Third Reading RCS#20)
H0905 · 2026-03-12
Foreign Influence (Senate: Third Reading RCS#13)
H0851 · 2026-03-12
Professional Learning for Instructional and School Administrative Personnel (Senate: Third Reading RCS#17)
H0589 · 2026-03-11
Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal System Permits (Senate: Third Reading RCS#7)
H0925 · 2026-03-11
Clerks of the Court (Senate: Third Reading RCS#5)
H1085 · 2026-03-11
Local Government Cyber Security (Senate: Third Reading RCS#4)
H0679 · 2026-03-11
Registration of Trademarks (Senate: Third Reading RCS#6)
H0991 · 2026-03-11
Elections (Senate: Third Reading RCS#8)
H0355 · 2026-03-11
Health Care Patient Protection (Senate: Third Reading RCS#2)
H1121 · 2026-03-11
Aging and Disability Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#10)
S0246 · 2026-03-11
Specialty License Plates (Senate: Third Reading RCS#15)
H1113 · 2026-03-11
Pub. Rec./Crime Victims (Senate: Third Reading RCS#3)
H4065 · 2026-03-11
West Palm Beach Firefighters Pension Fund, Palm Beach County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#48)
H4051 · 2026-03-11
Pace Fire Rescue District, Santa Rosa County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#41)
S1602 · 2026-03-11
Housing for Veterans (Senate: Third Reading RCS#21)
H4053 · 2026-03-11
Avalon Beach-Mulat Fire Protection District, Santa Rosa County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#42)
H4017 · 2026-03-11
Nassau County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#27)
H4091 · 2026-03-11
Sarasota and Manatee Counties (Senate: Third Reading RCS#57)
H4059 · 2026-03-11
Compensation for Health Care Services for Inmates in Polk County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#45)
S0628 · 2026-03-11
Transportation Facility Designations (Senate: Third Reading RCS#22)
H4007 · 2026-03-11
Martin County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#64)
H4081 · 2026-03-11
Eastpoint Water and Sewer District, Franklin County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#53)
H4043 · 2026-03-11
Citrus County Hospital Board, Citrus County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#37)
H4047 · 2026-03-11
Lee County Tourist Development Council, Lee County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#39)
H4079 · 2026-03-11
Marion County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#52)
H4037 · 2026-03-11
Pasco County Mosquito Control District, Pasco County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#34)
H4001 · 2026-03-11
Jefferson County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#61)
S0178 · 2026-03-11
Athletics in Public K-12 Schools (Senate: Third Reading RCS#14)
H4035 · 2026-03-11
Palm Beach County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#33)
H1451 · 2026-03-11
Utility Services (Senate: Third Reading RCS#11)
S0488 · 2026-03-11
Transportation (Senate: Third Reading RCS#17)
H4071 · 2026-03-11
Palm Beach County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#50)
H4029 · 2026-03-11
Hillsborough County Charter (Senate: Third Reading RCS#31)
H4087 · 2026-03-11
Highlands County Hospital District (Senate: Third Reading RCS#55)
H4019 · 2026-03-11
Compensation for Health Care Services for Inmates in Lake County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#28)
H4011 · 2026-03-11
St. Lucie County Mosquito Control District, St. Lucie County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#65)
H4095 · 2026-03-11
Headwaters Water Control District, Indian River County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#59)
H4067 · 2026-03-11
Plantation Acres Improvement District, Broward County (Senate: Third Reading RCS#49)
H1217 · 2026-03-11
Prohibited Governmental Policies Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Senate: Third Reading RCS#23)
Complete voting record from LegiScan (showing the 60 most recent of 756 total roll-call votes this session).
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