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

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Educational Facilities Financing"
+description: "Higher Educational Facilities Financing; Specifying when the term for a new appointee to the Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority begins; authorizing the authority to conduct meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; authorizing the authority to contract with an entity to assist with administrative matters; prohibiting the authority from entering into a financing agreement with a participating institution for a project if at the time the agreement is executed certain conditions exist, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 598"
+citation: "Florida SB 598 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["educational facilities bonds"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2023-92"
+primary_sponsors: ["Education Postsecondary", "Martin"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-02-08"
+last_action: "2023-05-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eef89de5-81c6-4953-b05e-21bbe1c6f425"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "c38a272295b30131f801a1759a5c8ab13c1f9e19f8d6b6f1c5a5b4cad5d98432"
+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 598 (2023) — Higher Educational Facilities Financing
+
+Higher Educational Facilities Financing; Specifying when the term for a new appointee to the Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority begins; authorizing the authority to conduct meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; authorizing the authority to contract with an entity to assist with administrative matters; prohibiting the authority from entering into a financing agreement with a participating institution for a project if at the time the agreement is executed certain conditions exist, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-92.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 598 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 598 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 598 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/598/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Education Postsecondary — primary (person)
+- Martin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-08** Filed `filing`
+- **2023-02-16** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 03/07/23, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
+- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2023-03-07** CS by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
+- **2023-03-08** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2023-03-08** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
+- **2023-03-08** CS by Education Postsecondary read 1st time
+- **2023-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/22/23, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
+- **2023-03-22** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-22** Now in Rules
+- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/11/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2023-04-11** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-04-11** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2023-04-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/18/23
+- **2023-04-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-18** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2023-04-19** 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 (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
+- **2023-04-25** Substituted for HB 257
+- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2023-04-26** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-05-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-18** Chapter No. 2023-92
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eef89de5-81c6-4953-b05e-21bbe1c6f425`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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