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type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans Benefits Assistance"
description: "Veterans Benefits Assistance; Prohibiting a person from receiving compensation for referring an individual to a provider for advising, assisting, or consulting on any veterans benefits matter; requiring that persons who advise, assist, or consult on veterans benefits matters for compensation provide a specified oral and written disclosure before entering into a business relationship with a client; prohibiting a provider who advises, assists, or consults on veterans benefits matters from charging certain fees; requiring a provider to ensure that individuals who directly assist a veteran in a veterans benefits matter complete a specified background screening before entering into an agreement with a veteran for veterans benefits matters, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 910"
citation: "Florida SB 910 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-150"
primary_sponsors: ["Collins"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a1df8b9-9151-426a-beae-f89f1a98c6e2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6b2e9346296fea92ac212765b8d0aacdcac4f8020cd60168031475eb2543b073"
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"]
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# Florida SB 910 (2025) — Veterans Benefits Assistance
Veterans Benefits Assistance; Prohibiting a person from receiving compensation for referring an individual to a provider for advising, assisting, or consulting on any veterans benefits matter; requiring that persons who advise, assist, or consult on veterans benefits matters for compensation provide a specified oral and written disclosure before entering into a business relationship with a client; prohibiting a provider who advises, assists, or consults on veterans benefits matters from charging certain fees; requiring a provider to ensure that individuals who directly assist a veteran in a veterans benefits matter complete a specified background screening before entering into an agreement with a veteran for veterans benefits matters, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-150.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 910 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 910 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 910 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 910 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **360** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **50** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **90** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **240** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Collins — primary (person)
- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security — primary (organization)
- Rules — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-18** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-20** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2025-03-26** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security read 1st time
- **2025-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/31/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-31** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-08** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-09** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-09** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/15/25
- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-15** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-150
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a1df8b9-9151-426a-beae-f89f1a98c6e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).