---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Public Guardians/Employees with Fiduciary Responsibility"
description: "Public Records/Public Guardians/Employees with Fiduciary Responsibility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 268"
citation: "Florida SB 268 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2018-16"
primary_sponsors: ["Passidomo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-09-07"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95cdb2b8-faeb-438a-9c05-1e40663d7291"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/00268/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8bfac45adbe42a1f89ea5e71e824b1c2d3bc6adff9aeb08e6e6d2b992a9d2ac4"
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 268 (2018) — Public Records/Public Guardians/Employees with Fiduciary Responsibility

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2018-16.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 268 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/268/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 268 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/268/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 268 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/268/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 268 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/268/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 268 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/268/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Passidomo — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-09-07** Filed `filing`
- **2017-09-22** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-06** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/06/17, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Office Building --Meeting cancelled
- **2017-11-06** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 11/13/17, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Office Building
- **2017-11-13** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2017-11-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2017-11-17** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2018-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
- **2018-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/16/18, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Office Building
- **2018-01-16** CS/CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2018-01-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-01-19** Now in Rules
- **2018-01-23** CS/CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2018-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/01/18, 11:30 am, 110 Senate Office Building
- **2018-02-01** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 11 NAYS 1
- **2018-02-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-02-07** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2018-02-07** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2018-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/18
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-02** In Messages
- **2018-03-04** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-04** Received
- **2018-03-05** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 1037 -HJ 905, 906
- **2018-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 113 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Ordered enrolled
- **2018-03-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2018-03-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-21** Chapter No. 2018-16

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95cdb2b8-faeb-438a-9c05-1e40663d7291`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).