Colleen Burton

Sponsored a law requiring Florida assisted living facilities that offer memory care to hold a special memory care license (Senate Bill 1404). The Governor signed it on May 22, 2026.

May 26, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 56, which makes releasing material into the air to change the weather a third-degree felony. The Florida Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 3, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Burton voted for HB 433, which prohibited counties from creating their own regulations addressing extreme heat; the Florida Senate passed it 24-15.

March 8, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 12, 2026

Burton voted for SB 172, which prohibited local governments from prohibiting certain drugs and cosmetics; the Florida House passed it 68-47.

March 10, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 12, 2026

Sponsored the Heartland Headwaters Protection and Sustainability Act, which requires cooperatives to file yearly reports on water resource projects (House Bill 573). The governor signed it in June 2017.

June 15, 2017Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for House Bill 1219, the CHOICE Act, which lets high earners sign deals of up to four years not to work for rivals. The Florida Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 24, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Sponsored a child care law that revised licensing and staff training standards, exempted preschools from certain city assessments, and reduced duplicate inspections (Senate Bill 738, Chapter 2025-181).

June 26, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton voted for HB 735, which prohibited local governments from requiring licenses for specified contractor or journeyman jobs; the Florida House passed it 82-32.

April 1, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 12, 2026

Sponsored a 113-page Florida law on protecting children and crime victims. It makes courts appoint a child's guardian ad litem as early as possible and in more kinds of cases, opens case and school records to the child's guardian and attorney, and puts the guardian office into the state adoption and abuse-prevention plan. It also makes police who investigate domestic violence run a lethality assessment, using a statewide method the state law enforcement department must develop (Senate Bill 1224, Chapter 2024-70).

April 11, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton sponsored HB 1041 on protecting elderly people and disabled adults; it became Chapter 2021-221.

July 6, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton sponsored HB 1059 on exploitation of vulnerable adults; it became Chapter 2018-100.

March 27, 2018Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton voted for HB 675, which required local governments to enforce specified federal immigration regulations; the Florida House passed it 80-38.

February 3, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for the Senate version of Senate Bill 1080, which standardizes zoning application deadlines and limits steep increases in impact fees. The Senate passed it 26-8, and it became law.

April 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 700, a 92-section agriculture package that ends fluoride in drinking water and protects farmworker housing. The Florida Senate passed it 27-9, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Burton voted for SB 300, which prohibited abortions after six weeks with specified exceptions.

April 3, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: choicetracker.org · researched July 12, 2026

Sponsored a Florida law tightening inspection rules for abortion clinics, requiring abortion referral agencies to register, and raising penalties for improper disposal of fetal remains (House Bill 1411, Chapter 2016-150).

March 28, 2016Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton voted for HB 991, which required specified proof-of-citizenship identification for voting; the Florida Senate passed the amended bill 27-12.

March 12, 2026Supports Election Integrity

Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for House Bill 1205, which requires every petition collector to register, live in Florida and be a citizen. The Senate agreed 28-9 and the governor signed it as Chapter 2025-21.

May 2, 2025Supports Election Integrity

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for House Bill 903, which makes prisoners finish prison appeals before suing and bars claims for mental harm alone. The Florida Senate passed it 26-11, and it became law.

April 29, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Burton sponsored SB 252 on protection from discrimination based on health-care choices; it became Chapter 2023-43.

May 12, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton voted for HB 1557, the Parental Rights in Education bill; the Florida House passed it 69-47.

February 24, 2022Opposes Civil Rights

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton voted for HB 527, which prohibited cities from enacting sanctuary policies; the Florida House passed it 69-47.

April 24, 2019Opposes Civil Rights

Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 12, 2026

Voted yes as the Florida House passed, 71-35, a bill proposing to ban local sanctuary policies and require state and local agencies to help enforce federal immigration law (House Bill 9). The bill died in the Senate.

January 12, 2018Opposes Civil Rights

Source: justfacts.votesmart.org · researched July 12, 2026

Sponsored a law requiring Florida assisted living facilities that offer memory care to hold a special memory care license (Senate Bill 1404). The Governor signed it on May 22, 2026.

May 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for House Bill 1219, the CHOICE Act, which lets high earners sign deals of up to four years not to work for rivals. The Florida Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 24, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Sponsored a bill requiring hospitals and health provider groups to notify the attorney general before mergers and acquisitions (House Bill 711). It passed the House 114-0 but died in a Senate committee.

March 14, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton sponsored HB 1243 on hospital and group-practice mergers and acquisitions; it died in the Florida Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee.

May 3, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Wrote a law reshaping Florida's citrus rules, including who serves on the Citrus Commission and how citrus districts are drawn. New citrus varieties from state-funded research go to the Department of Citrus to license. It passed 114-0 in the House and 39-0 in the Senate (House Bill 1097, Chapter 2022-117).

May 17, 2022

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Burton began serving as chair of the Florida House Health and Human Services Committee.

November 5, 2020

Source: flhouse.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Co-introduced a Florida bill rewriting alimony rules and setting a policy on shared child custody time. The House passed it 93-22, and it died in the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1, 2015 (House Bill 943).

May 1, 2015

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 12, 2026