Nothing on this page has changed the law. Each matter here is either still pending or ended without changing it, so the rules that apply to you are the ones on the reciprocity map. This is general reference, not legal advice.

What could change reciprocity

The reciprocity map tells you which of the 37 states honor a Florida license today, and it carries the date every claim on it was read. It does not tell you what is about to move. 2 things could, and this page follows each one to its official docket rather than to a headline about it. It also keeps the record of one that has ended, and how.

Every entry says what has already happened, with the date it happened and the document it happened in, and what its outcome would do to the map, or did. None of them says what is going to happen, because nobody knows and a firearms school guessing at it is how somebody plans a trip around a bill that never passes.

Each entry says when its official docket was last read; the most recent read was on October 17, 2026. The map itself was last verified on September 8, 2026.

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What is actually at stake

Every matter on this page reaches the same part of the country. 37 jurisdictions already honor a Florida license, and nothing here would change that. What is being argued about is the remaining 13, where a Florida license does nothing today.

The 13 drawn solid are the ones in play. California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington. The other 37 already honor a Florida license, so neither matter on this page would change your answer there. Every one of the 13 requires a permit of its own to carry, which is what puts all of them inside a federal bill that turns on whether a state issues licenses.

That is the ceiling on all of them, not a description of what any would do. A bill or a petition can fail in full, and one of them reaching the 13 would not touch the conditions the map already records for the states that do honor the license.

The next dated step

None of these has a scheduled date to watch right now. Two of them are bills waiting on a vote nobody has called, which can stay true for a whole Congress.

Where these things have to get to

A docket says “placed on the Union Calendar” or “distributed for conference” and expects you to know what that means. Here is each route in full, so you can see how far along something is rather than taking somebody’s word for it.

How a bill becomes law

Both bills on this page are at the start of this. A bill dies at the end of the Congress that filed it and has to be introduced again from the beginning.

Introduced
A member files the bill and it is handed to the committee that covers the subject. Thousands of bills reach this step in every Congress.
Reported by committee
The committee votes the bill out, which is what puts it in line for a vote by the whole chamber.
Passed its own chamber
The full House or Senate votes it through and sends it to the other one.
Passed the other chamber
The second chamber passes the same text. If it changes anything, both have to agree on one version before it can go further.
Signed into law
The President signs it, or lets it become law without a signature, or vetoes it. Only at this step does anything change for somebody carrying a firearm.

How the Supreme Court decides to hear a case

Asking the Court to take a case is not the case being heard. Most petitions end at the third step, denied, which leaves the lower court’s ruling in force.

Petition docketed
Somebody who lost in a lower court asks the Supreme Court to review it, and the clerk gives the petition a number. The Court receives several thousand of these a year.
Distributed for conference
The petition is circulated to the justices ahead of a specific closed meeting at which they decide which cases to take.
Certiorari granted
Four justices vote to hear the case. Most petitions are denied instead, which ends the matter and leaves the lower court’s decision standing.
Argued
Both sides file briefs and answer the justices’ questions in open court.
Decided
The Court issues an opinion. Only then does anything change, and only as far as the opinion reaches.

Johnson v. Jacobson, No. 26-255Petition denied

A Florida licensee asked the Supreme Court to hear whether a state may refuse his license, and it declined

The Supreme Court denied the petition on 5 October 2026, after it had been distributed for the justices’ conference of 28 September. The Eighth Circuit’s judgment for Minnesota stands.

Jeffrey M. Johnson, Sr. is a long haul truck driver who holds Florida and Georgia licenses and drives through Minnesota several times a year. Minnesota recognizes licenses only from states whose rules it considers similar to its own, and Florida is not on that list, so Minnesota law requires him to unload and case his handgun while he is there. He sued the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, lost in the district court and in the Eighth Circuit, and asked the Supreme Court to take the case. The questions he presented were whether a person must hold a license from every state in order to carry across the country, and whether a reciprocity statute that recognizes some states and not others survives New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

Where it ended

Ended after step 2 of 5: Distributed for conference.

The petition ended here. Denying certiorari is not a ruling on whether Minnesota is right; it means the Court will not review this case, so it never reaches the third step and the Eighth Circuit’s decision is the last word in it.

What it did to the map

Nothing. The denial leaves the Eighth Circuit judgment in place and changes no state’s reciprocity statute, so every answer on the map, Minnesota’s included, is what it was before the petition was filed.

What has happened

September 11, 2025. The District of Minnesota entered judgment against Johnson.
May 26, 2026. The Eighth Circuit entered judgment, No. 25-3036.
August 27, 2026. The petition for certiorari was docketed as No. 26-255.
August 31, 2026. Minnesota filed a waiver of its right to respond.
September 2, 2026. Distributed for the conference of 28 September 2026.
September 15, 2026. The Second Amendment Foundation and others filed an amicus brief.
September 22, 2026. Huang Tiange and others filed an amicus brief.
September 28, 2026. The justices’ conference.
October 5, 2026. Petition denied.

Supreme Court of the United States, docket for No. 26-255, read 2026-10-17

H.R. 38Stalled

The House bill that would make every state honor every other state

Reported out of the House Judiciary Committee and placed on the Union Calendar on 3 October 2025, where it has sat since with no floor vote scheduled.

The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025, introduced by Representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina on the first day of the 119th Congress and carrying 189 cosponsors. It would let a person who may lawfully carry a concealed handgun in their own state carry in any other state that issues carry licenses at all. The Judiciary Committee ordered it reported by 18 votes to 9 in March 2025 and reported it, amended, that October.

Where it has got to

Step 2 of 5: Reported by committee.

Being in line is not being scheduled. Whether a bill on the calendar ever gets a floor vote is the leadership’s decision, and there is no deadline on it.

What it would do to the map

A federal statute of this kind would make most of this table historical: the question would stop being which states honor a Florida license and become which states issue licenses at all. Being on the Union Calendar means it is eligible for a floor vote, not that one has been scheduled.

What has happened

January 3, 2025. Introduced in the House and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
March 25, 2025. Ordered to be reported, as amended, by 18 votes to 9.
October 3, 2025. Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary and placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 289.

Next. A vote on the House floor, which the leadership has not scheduled. There is no date to watch.

Congress.gov, actions on H.R. 38, 119th Congress, read 2026-09-10

S. 65Stalled

Its Senate companion, which has not moved at all

Read twice and referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on 9 January 2025, with no committee action in the twenty months since.

The Senate version of the same Act, introduced by Senator John Cornyn of Texas and carrying 48 cosponsors. It is listed here beside the House bill rather than folded into it because the two are at very different points: the House bill has been through committee and the Senate bill has not been taken up.

Where it has got to

Step 1 of 5: Introduced.

Introducing a bill takes one member and establishes nothing about whether it moves. Most bills are never taken up by the committee they are referred to, and a long list of cosponsors is not a vote.

What it would do to the map

Nothing reaches the President without both chambers, so the Senate bill sitting in committee is the more informative half of the pair. Its position has not changed since the week it was introduced.

What has happened

January 9, 2025. Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Next. Consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has not been scheduled. There is no date to watch.

Congress.gov, actions on S. 65, 119th Congress, read 2026-09-10

The words on the dockets

Every claim above links to the government record it came from. These are the terms you will meet there, so that following the link is worth something.

Reported out of committee: The committee has finished with the bill and sent it to the full chamber. It is the step most bills never reach.
Union Calendar: The list a reported House bill involving money or revenue waits on. A bill can sit on it until the Congress ends, at which point it dies and has to start again.
Certiorari: The order by which the Supreme Court agrees to review a lower court’s decision. Denying it is not a ruling on who was right; it simply leaves the decision below in place.
Distributed for conference: The petition has been circulated for a dated closed meeting of the justices at which petitions are considered.
Waiver of the right to respond: The winning side tells the Court it does not intend to file an opposing brief. The Court can still ask for one.
Reciprocity: One state agreeing to recognise a licence another state issued. It is decided by each state separately, which is why the map has fifty different answers on it.

Until one of these lands, the map is the answer

A bill on a calendar changes nothing about what you may lawfully do this week, and neither did a petition the Supreme Court declined to hear. The reciprocity map carries the rules that are actually in force, with the state document each one came from and the date it was read.

Nothing to do today. Your license is unaffected by everything on this page, in all 37 jurisdictions that honor it.
Check per trip, not per year. States change their own rules far more often than Congress or the Supreme Court changes anything, and the map records the date each rule was read.
Watch the dates, not the noise. A dated step on a docket is a fact. An article about what it means for the future is somebody guessing.

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