Hillary Cassel

Sponsored 2026 HB 527. It would have barred insurers from using AI or machine learning as the only basis for cutting or denying claims. It would also have required qualified human review. It died in Senate Rules.

March 13, 2026Supports AI Regulation

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Sponsored 2026 HB 1015. It proposed limits on insurance downcoding and stronger claim-response rules. It also proposed restricting prior-authorization changes. It created causes of action for health-care providers. It died in committee.

March 13, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Co-introduced 2026 HB 1019, which became Chapter 2026-158. It phases out most PFAS firefighting foam. It requires inventories, disposal plans, sampling and enforcement. It also provides transition assistance.

June 17, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 56. Purposely releasing material into Florida's air to change weather, climate, temperature, or sunlight becomes a third-degree felony carrying up to five years in prison, with a fine up to $100,000, or up to $5,000 for aircraft operators and controllers. Public airports must report equipped aircraft, environmental officials must investigate reports, and Florida ends its weather-modification licenses and research power. The Florida House passed it 82-28, and it became law.

April 30, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 492. Wetland banks release credits on a fixed schedule: 30 percent after land protection and funding, 30 percent after construction, 20 percent at an interim target, and 20 percent at final success, or all credits for preservation-only banks. Created-wetland credits may come early, and applicants get one use of credits outside the service area when none are available inside it. The Florida House passed it 87-26, and it became law.

April 30, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Sponsored a bill proposing to let qualifying special districts run joint projects anywhere inside their combined boundaries and shield those actions from antitrust claims; it died in a House subcommittee (House Bill 1047).

March 13, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Cassel sponsored 2026 HB 831, requiring more data and revised reporting schedules for mental-health, drug, and other problem-solving courts; the House laid it on the table in favor of the Senate companion.

March 10, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Co-introduced 2026 HB 1019, which became Chapter 2026-158. It phases out most PFAS firefighting foam. It requires inventories, disposal plans, sampling and enforcement. It also provides transition assistance.

June 17, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Cassel co-introduced 2026 CS/CS/HB 277, strengthening domestic-violence penalties and injunction procedures, expanding victim relocation assistance, and establishing electronic-monitoring pilots; it became Chapter 2026-86.

May 22, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Was a named sponsor of 2026 HB 1071, a broad education bill. It covered K-12 spending, school administration, and charter and lab schools. It also covered early learning, instruction, educator certification and facilities. It died in Senate Rules.

March 13, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Cassel co-introduced 2026 CS/CS/HB 277, strengthening domestic-violence penalties and injunction procedures, expanding victim relocation assistance, and establishing electronic-monitoring pilots; it became Chapter 2026-86.

May 22, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Cassel sponsored 2026 CS/CS/HB 1471, creating state procedures and penalties involving designated terrorist organizations and restricting public support for them; it became Chapter 2026-28.

April 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Cassel sponsored 2026 CS/CS/HB 1473, creating public-record exemptions for security-sensitive information supporting terrorist-organization designations; it became Chapter 2026-29.

April 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted for House Bill 351. Dangerous excessive speeding means driving at least 50 miles per hour over the limit or at least 100 miles per hour while threatening people or property; first penalties reach 30 days and $500, then 90 days and $1,000. A second conviction within five years suspends driving for 180 days to one year, and anyone cited for more than 50 miles per hour over must attend a hearing. The Florida House passed it 75-38, and it became law.

April 23, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Cassel sponsored 2026 HB 1349, proposing revisions to retention, reimbursement, premiums, and reinsurance in the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund; it died in committee.

March 13, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 1080. It standardizes zoning application details, deadlines, and fee refunds; limits school-district fees charged in place of impact fees; and limits steep increases in impact fees, which fund public services. It also withdraws plan changes not formally adopted within 180 days after a second hearing and allows building-code fees and fines to pay for permit work. The Florida House passed it 84-29, and it became law.

April 30, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for Senate Bill 700, a 92-section agriculture package. Water additives must meet drinking standards, remove pollutants, or improve water, ending dental fluoride used in about 29 counties; a local-choice amendment failed 13-21. It protects verified farmworker housing, gives the state first chance to buy utility farmland, controls charger permits, registers public chargers, bans some drones, and lists charities free of money or direction from hostile foreign sources. The Florida House passed it 88-27, and it became law.

April 29, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Cassel co-introduced 2026 CS/CS/HB 277, strengthening domestic-violence penalties and injunction procedures, expanding victim relocation assistance, and establishing electronic-monitoring pilots; it became Chapter 2026-86.

May 22, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Was a named sponsor of 2026 HB 1071, a broad education bill. It covered K-12 spending, school administration, and charter and lab schools. It also covered early learning, instruction, educator certification and facilities. It died in Senate Rules.

March 13, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Voted for the House version of House Bill 875. It orders updated teaching standards, one core teacher-training curriculum, a skills-based certification route called Coaching for Educator Readiness and Teaching, and common mentor rules. The House passed it 84-27; the final law also names two required courses, creates the Florida Center for Teaching Excellence at Miami-Dade College, and keeps the general-knowledge exam.

April 23, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for House Bill 6025. It repeals the automatic ban on selling, displaying, or publicly carrying guns and ammunition during a local emergency caused by violence or disorder. The repealed section also said it did not authorize taking lawfully owned guns. The Florida House passed it 86-28, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Opposes Gun Control

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for House Bill 1205, requiring every paid or volunteer petition collector to register, live in Florida, be a United States citizen, and lack an unrestored felony. Invalid collectors' forms do not count; holding over 25 outside family is a third-degree felony; delivery drops from 30 days to 10 with $2,500 fines; forms need ID digits; voters get mailed verification and prepaid fraud-revocation forms. Invalidity over one-quarter triggers investigation, the RICO racketeering law may cover fraud, committees get one initiative, proposals expire after three elections below 25 percent, and state ads are barred; the House changed the Senate rewrite and passed it 81-30 into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Election Integrity

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for House Bill 903. Prisoners must finish prison appeals before suing, cannot claim only mental harm without physical injury or a listed sexual act, and have one year for poor-person petitions and injury suits. Discipline challenges create account liens for court costs; 10-20-Life gun terms run one after another, and another constitutional execution method may replace lethal injection if its chemicals become unavailable or impractical. The Florida House passed it 83-33, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Co-introduced 2026 HB 1019, which became Chapter 2026-158. It phases out most PFAS firefighting foam. It requires inventories, disposal plans, sampling and enforcement. It also provides transition assistance.

June 17, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Sponsored a bill proposing to let qualifying special districts run joint projects anywhere inside their combined boundaries and shield those actions from antitrust claims; it died in a House subcommittee (House Bill 1047).

March 13, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Cassel sponsored 2026 HB 1349, proposing revisions to retention, reimbursement, premiums, and reinsurance in the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund; it died in committee.

March 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Sponsored 2026 HB 1015. It proposed limits on insurance downcoding and stronger claim-response rules. It also proposed restricting prior-authorization changes. It created causes of action for health-care providers. It died in committee.

March 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Sponsored 2026 HB 527. It would have barred insurers from using AI or machine learning as the only basis for cutting or denying claims. It would also have required qualified human review. It died in Senate Rules.

March 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Cassel was elected to the Florida House in 2022 and subsequently reelected.

November 5, 2024

Source: flhouse.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Sponsored 2026 HB 833. It would let certain small private schools operate in commercial or mixed-use areas. Traffic and fire-safety provisions would apply. It died in Senate Rules.

March 13, 2026

Source: flsenate.gov · researched July 18, 2026