Clay Yarborough

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 Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 3, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for House Bill 1219. The CHOICE Act lets workers earning over twice their county's average wage, except licensed health care practitioners, sign deals lasting up to four years that pay them to avoid rivals or bar rival work, and says these are not trade restraints. Courts must temporarily stop similar work unless strong evidence shows it differs or the employer stopped agreed pay and benefits. The Florida Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 24, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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 Senate passed it 27-9, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for CS/HB 1205, accepting the last House change and completing passage. The law rewrote Florida's rules for citizen petitions to amend the state constitution. Every petition circulator, paid or volunteer, must register with the state and be a Florida resident and citizen. People with felony convictions may not circulate petitions unless their voting rights are restored. An unregistered person holding more than 25 signed forms, beyond their own and their immediate family's, commits a third-degree felony. Sponsors must deliver signed forms within 10 days instead of 30, with fines up to $2,500 for a late form. Signers must add a driver license number, state ID number, or the last four Social Security digits. Election officials mail each signer a notice, which the signer can use to cancel a forged signature. A sponsor may run only one amendment at a time. Petition fraud can be charged under Florida's racketeering law. The state may not spend public money on ads about proposed amendments. 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. 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, and judges may order 10-20-Life gun terms to run after a sentence for a companion felony not on that list. It also rewrites inmate mental health law, requiring a competent inmate's express and informed consent to treatment, and allows another constitutional execution method if lethal-injection chemicals become impossible or impractical to obtain. The Florida Senate passed it 26-11, and it became law.

April 29, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted for House Bill 1219. The CHOICE Act lets workers earning over twice their county's average wage, except licensed health care practitioners, sign deals lasting up to four years that pay them to avoid rivals or bar rival work, and says these are not trade restraints. Courts must temporarily stop similar work unless strong evidence shows it differs or the employer stopped agreed pay and benefits. The Florida Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 24, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

As of 2026-08-20, the Florida Senate's official Senator Clay Yarborough page listed his 2024-2026 Senate service, Judiciary Committee chairmanship, and committee assignments.

August 20, 2026

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Sponsored two Florida laws signed in 2026. One expanded free swim lessons and drowning-prevention materials for new parents (Senate Bill 428, Chapter 2026-38). The other barred nicotine shops from selling nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas, and created trafficking crimes for the animal sedative xylazine (Senate Bill 432, Chapter 2026-148). Also co-introduced an electric-bicycle speed and safety bill the Governor vetoed (Senate Bill 382).

June 25, 2026

Source: flsenate.gov · researched August 20, 2026

On March 6, 2026, Florida Senate Bill 624, introduced by Clay Yarborough to authorize faith-based supplemental activities in batterers' intervention programs, was laid on the table; a companion bill passed.

March 6, 2026

Source: flsenate.gov · researched August 21, 2026

Sponsored a Florida bill on search warrants, letting judges issue a warrant to recover a dead body, giving officers more time to return warrants to court, and letting officers apply by video (Senate Bill 442). The Senate set the bill aside on March 4, 2026 because the matching House bill had already passed; that version became law as Chapter 2026-177, effective July 1, 2026.

March 4, 2026

Source: flsenate.gov · researched August 21, 2026