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2026 Florida Chief Financial Officer — Democratic Primary
Chief Financial Officer
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About this office
Understand the responsibilities, authority, and limits of the office in this contest.
What Florida's chief financial officer does
Scope: Statewide executive and Cabinet office.
Florida's chief financial officer is the state's chief fiscal officer, settles and approves accounts against the state, keeps state funds and securities, heads the Department of Financial Services, and also serves as State Fire Marshal and a member of the Florida Cabinet.
Main responsibilities
- Serve as Florida's chief fiscal officer, settle and approve accounts against the state, and keep state funds and securities.
- Lead the Department of Financial Services, which administers state financial, insurance-consumer, fraud-investigation, treasury, workers' compensation, and fire-marshal functions.
- Serve as one of the three independently elected members of the Florida Cabinet and as State Fire Marshal.
Why it matters to voters
- The office affects state accounting and payments, stewardship of state funds, insurance and financial consumer services, fraud investigations, unclaimed property, workers' compensation administration, and fire-safety services.
- Election
- Partisan election
- Who votes
- Statewide
- Term
- 4 years
Election rules, limits, and official sources
Selection: Each party may nominate a candidate in its primary; voters statewide elect the chief financial officer in the general election.
Residency:
How FactVote presents the public record: FactVote may include explicit CFO executive actions, Cabinet votes, official proposals, direct public statements, and department outcomes announced by the CFO. It never converts a department-wide result into a claim that the CFO personally performed every underlying action, and it labels legislative sponsorship separately from a floor vote.
What the office does not control
- The CFO does not set insurance rates or enact statutes alone. The Legislature, governor, Cabinet, Office of Insurance Regulation, Department of Financial Services divisions, courts, and other agencies may share authority.