Sen. Rick Scott

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 Report Card for Scott.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Scott is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Scott has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Aug 7, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Rick Scott sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Tourism, Trade, and Export Promotion subcommittee Ranking Member

  Communications, Media, and Broadband, Space and Science, Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Armed Services
  Airland, Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Seapower subcommittees
• Senate Committee on the Budget
• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations subcommittees
• Senate Special Committee on Aging

Enacted Legislation

Scott was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

• S. 3811: Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022
• S. 2476 (116th): Hurricane Dorian Charitable Giving Act

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Does 2 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Scott sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (27%) Government Operations and Politics (21%) Health (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (9%) Economics and Public Finance (8%) Taxation (7%) Finance and Financial Sector (7%) Immigration (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Scott recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 4782: A bill to combat the fentanyl crisis.
• S. 4772: A bill to require institutions of higher education participating in Federal financial aid …
• S. 4757: A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require national …
• S.Res. 728: A resolution commending the bravery, courage, and resolve of the human rights and …
• S. 4483: Debt Cancellation Accountability Act of 2022
• S. 4460: END FENTANYL Act
• S.Res. 688: A resolution expressing opposition to Congressional spending on earmarks.

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Aug 2022, Scott missed 43 of 1,572 roll call votes, which is 2.7%. This is on par with the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Office of Rick Scott for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills