Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Constitutional Amendments"
+description: "Constitutional Amendments; Increasing the signature threshold at which the Secretary of State must transmit initiative petitions to the Attorney General for review; providing that a citizen may challenge in circuit court a petition circulator’s registration with the Secretary of State; authorizing the Division of Elections or a supervisor of elections to provide petition forms in a certain electronic format; requiring that ballots containing constitutional amendments proposed by initiative include certain disclosures and statements, in a specified order, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 1794"
+citation: "Florida SB 1794 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["electors and elections", "executive branch"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2020-15"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-01-10"
+last_action: "2020-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0686dad-607c-4688-a768-cdcc38d80854"
+source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "260321b15c8c5ebc1f941191d560cc8c4a3d354bd123bbaaf69ffcda265dfb5e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida SB 1794 (2020) — Constitutional Amendments
+
+Constitutional Amendments; Increasing the signature threshold at which the Secretary of State must transmit initiative petitions to the Attorney General for review; providing that a citizen may challenge in circuit court a petition circulator’s registration with the Secretary of State; authorizing the Division of Elections or a supervisor of elections to provide petition forms in a certain electronic format; requiring that ballots containing constitutional amendments proposed by initiative include certain disclosures and statements, in a specified order, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-15.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 1794 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 1794 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 1794 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/BillText/c2/HTML)
+4. **S 1794 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/BillText/c3/HTML)
+5. **S 1794 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/BillText/e1/HTML)
+6. **S 1794 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **23–17** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–7** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **73–45** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **4–3** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **4–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hutson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-10** Filed `filing`
+- **2020-01-17** Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 01/27/20, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
+- **2020-01-22** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2020-01-27** CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 4 NAYS 3
+- **2020-01-29** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2020-01-29** CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time
+- **2020-01-30** Now in Judiciary
+- **2020-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/11/20, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
+- **2020-02-11** CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 4 NAYS 2
+- **2020-02-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2020-02-13** Now in Rules
+- **2020-02-13** CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
+- **2020-02-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/19/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
+- **2020-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
+- **2020-02-26** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 10 NAYS 7
+- **2020-02-27** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-02** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
+- **2020-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
+- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (440834)
+- **2020-03-06** Ordered engrossed
+- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17 `passage`
+- **2020-03-09** In Messages
+- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-09** Received
+- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
+- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 73 NAYS 45 `passage`
+- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
+- **2020-04-08** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
+- **2020-04-08** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-09** Chapter No. 2020-15
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0686dad-607c-4688-a768-cdcc38d80854`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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