CS/HB 491 (2025): Use of Artificial Intelligence by Governmental Agencies to Detect Concealed Firearms

Record US-FL-10 · CS/HB 491 (2025 Regular Session)

Issued by: Florida House of Representatives (2025 Regular Session; Criminal Justice Subcommittee and Rep. Miller)
Jurisdiction: Florida (US)
Level · region: Sub-national · North America
Country: United States
Published / adopted: 2025-02-10
Last updated: 2025-03-26
Language: English
Official identifier: CS/HB 491 (2025 Regular Session)

Summary

Bill that would have prohibited any state, county, local or municipal governmental agency from using artificial intelligence, or contracting with another entity to use it, together with a camera, video recording, live-streaming device or similar technology to detect concealed firearms in a public place. Agencies could still use such AI on school grounds and at the locations where concealed weapons licensees may not carry. An aggrieved party could seek injunctive relief against the agency or its contractor to prevent or remedy a violation.

Safety topics

public-sector useprohibited practices

Status notes

Filed 10 Feb 2025. The Criminal Justice Subcommittee reported it favourably with a committee substitute (13-0) on 26 Mar 2025, narrowing the filed version, which applied to any person and carried a criminal penalty, to governmental agencies and replacing the penalty with injunctive relief. The Judiciary Committee reported it favourably (19-0) on 17 Apr 2025, and the House passed it 114-1 on 24 Apr 2025. In the Senate it was referred to Rules, indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration on 3 May 2025, and died in Rules on 16 Jun 2025. The similar Senate bill SB 562 (Ingoglia) died in the Criminal Justice Committee. The stated effective date was 1 Jul 2025.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/491

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-17 23:09:26 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/_runs/2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl/C009/2026-10-14/official.html

Retrieved 2026-10-14 15:57:40 UTC

SHA-256 b652de24ec5d180ee963b921ef7414629c03c1bd171d5794308fc5ff2bf21f5a

Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/_runs/2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl/C009/2026-10-14/document-1.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-14 15:57:51 UTC

SHA-256 fbfc1f5e73d45c6214889ee3259a9cb8ef4400b334d9bbdb87cdbf543094ac83

Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/_runs/2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl/C009/2026-10-14/document-2.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-14 15:58:04 UTC

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Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 18 Oct 2026: re-read the Florida Senate bill page for HB 491 (2025) and the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee (26 Mar 2025) and Judiciary Committee (17 Apr 2025) staff analyses of CS/HB 491, stored from flsenate.gov on 14 Oct 2026 and found unchanged by the archiver on 17 Oct 2026. The bill page confirms the title, sponsors, filing date, the c1 version of 26 Mar 2025, the 114-1 House vote, the withdrawal of 3 May 2025 and the 'Died in Rules' action of 16 Jun 2025. The bill text itself was not stored; the summary rests on the staff analyses, which describe the committee substitute section by section and state that they are not an official statement of legislative intent.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 9 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18Re-verified against its sources, no change — pipeline run 2026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 (recheck), candidate US-FL-102026-10-18-recheck-north-america-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-14Added to the register — found in pipeline run 2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl, candidate C009 (US-FL/legislature)2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Citation

Florida House of Representatives (2025 Regular Session; Criminal Justice Subcommittee and Rep. Miller). CS/HB 491 (2025): Use of Artificial Intelligence by Governmental Agencies to Detect Concealed Firearms [CS/HB 491 (2025 Regular Session)]. 2025-02-10. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/491. Status: Lapsed; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/_runs/2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl/C009/2026-10-14/official.html retrieved 2026-10-14 15:57:40 UTC, SHA-256 b652de24ec5d180ee963b921ef7414629c03c1bd171d5794308fc5ff2bf21f5a. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-FL-10.

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