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type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsels"
description: "Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsels; Specifying the responsibilities of regional counsels regarding witness coordination; removing the requirement that regional counsel employees be governed by Justice Administrative Commission classification and salary and benefits plans; authorizing regional counsels to access certain confidential information relating to proceedings involving children under specified circumstances; authorizing regional counsel offices to obtain fictitious names for motor vehicle and vessel plates or decals, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 596"
citation: "Florida SB 596 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections", "domestic relations", "judicial branch", "motor vehicles", "public health", "public officers", "employees", "and records"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-195"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Baxley", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-10-21"
last_action: "2022-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab2f8fa4-1548-4079-a76e-e3f02f7a8b46"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/596/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d210bc3ea0be46fef046130f9ec701684f3493d11b58bda882bdab318df7213e"
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 596 (2022) — Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsels
Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsels; Specifying the responsibilities of regional counsels regarding witness coordination; removing the requirement that regional counsel employees be governed by Justice Administrative Commission classification and salary and benefits plans; authorizing regional counsels to access certain confidential information relating to proceedings involving children under specified circumstances; authorizing regional counsel offices to obtain fictitious names for motor vehicle and vessel plates or decals, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-195.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 596 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/596/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 596 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/596/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 596 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/596/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 596 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/596/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **200** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **60** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Baxley — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-10-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-03** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-03** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/10/22, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-10** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2022-01-12** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 01/19/22, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-19** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-19** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-24** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-25** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-21** Chapter No. 2022-195, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 598 (Ch. 2022-196)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab2f8fa4-1548-4079-a76e-e3f02f7a8b46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).