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

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees"
+description: "Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees; Requiring a public employee who desires to be a member of an employee organization to sign a membership authorization form beginning on a specified date; requiring an employee organization to revoke a public employee’s membership upon receipt of his or her written request for revocation; prohibiting certain employee organizations from having dues and uniform assessments deducted and collected by the employer from certain salaries; revising requirements for applications for initial registrations and renewals of registration of employee organizations; revising prohibitions for employee organizations and certain persons and entities relating to employee organizations, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 256"
+citation: "Florida SB 256 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["labor"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2023-35"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fiscal Policy", "Governmental Oversight and Accountability", "Ingoglia"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-02-28"
+last_action: "2023-05-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fec6c1b-4dab-45b0-a079-9177b75590c7"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "ce8d3d9c087aa79cdb9ac9259ead569b890f233cc1f259ca076b7fd2ea6f53bd"
+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 256 (2023) — Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees
+
+Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees; Requiring a public employee who desires to be a member of an employee organization to sign a membership authorization form beginning on a specified date; requiring an employee organization to revoke a public employee’s membership upon receipt of his or her written request for revocation; prohibiting certain employee organizations from having dues and uniform assessments deducted and collected by the employer from certain salaries; revising requirements for applications for initial registrations and renewals of registration of employee organizations; revising prohibitions for employee organizations and certain persons and entities relating to employee organizations, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-35.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 256 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 256 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 256 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/c2/HTML)
+4. **S 256 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/e1/HTML)
+5. **S 256 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/e2/HTML)
+6. **S 256 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **23–17** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **13–7** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **72–44** (pass) · lower
+- A - 692892, Amendment, Second Reading — **12–26** (fail) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–3** (pass) · upper
+- A - 488749, Adoption, Second Reading — **33–80** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
+- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)
+- Ingoglia — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-28** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-03-01** Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/07/23, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2023-03-07** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 3
+- **2023-03-09** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2023-03-09** Now in Fiscal Policy
+- **2023-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/16/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2023-03-14** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
+- **2023-03-16** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 13 NAYS 7
+- **2023-03-17** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2023-03-17** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/23/23
+- **2023-03-21** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
+- **2023-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-23** Amendment(s) adopted (297578)
+- **2023-03-23** Amendment(s) failed (586438, 692892, 817316)
+- **2023-03-23** Ordered engrossed
+- **2023-03-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-29** Amendment(s) failed (436266)
+- **2023-03-29** Amendment(s) adopted (690590)
+- **2023-03-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17 `passage`
+- **2023-03-31** In Messages
+- **2023-04-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
+- **2023-04-20** 1st Reading (Engrossed 2) `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-25** Substituted for CS/HB 1445
+- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-25** Amendment 488749 Failed
+- **2023-04-25** Amendment 483585 Failed
+- **2023-04-25** Amendment 535379 Failed
+- **2023-04-25** Amendment 613459 Failed
+- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 72, NAYS 44 `passage`
+- **2023-04-26** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-08** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-10** Chapter No. 2023-35
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fec6c1b-4dab-45b0-a079-9177b75590c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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