{"id":181561,"date":"2026-03-07T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181561\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:40:08","slug":"legislation-approved-to-enact-gold-silver-as-legal-tender-in-florida-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181561\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation approved to enact gold, silver as legal tender in Florida \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that enacts prior approval to make gold and silver coins legal tender in Florida is headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>With little comment, the Senate on Friday voted 31-1 on the measure (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2026\/1311\/ByCategory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">HB 1311<\/a>) that puts into state law rules for gold and silver coins that have been adopted by the Department of Financial Services and the Office of Financial Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, cast the lone vote against the measure.<\/p>\n<p>The House approved the proposal with a unanimous vote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers last year approved a measure that makes the precious metal coins legal tender starting July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 effort exempts qualifying gold coins and silver coins from sales tax; allows but does not require government entities to accept such coins electronically; and prohibits anyone from being compelled to use or accept such coins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bill that enacts prior approval to make gold and silver coins legal tender in Florida is headed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-181561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}