---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telephone Solicitation"
description: "Telephone Solicitation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 568"
citation: "Florida SB 568 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["alarms", "telephones", "dixie county", "telemarketing"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2018-23"
primary_sponsors: ["Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-10-19"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7ad0159-c92d-476e-9eb0-29acc4f6425b"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/00568/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c6dbdc3b4cf553272137fb277d43786ef32afabfda15de2fd9bf9958f94f0e0c"
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 568 (2018) — Telephone Solicitation

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2018-23.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 568 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/568/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 568 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/568/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 568 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/568/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 568 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/568/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 568 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/568/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-19** Filed `filing`
- **2017-11-02** Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-06** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 11/13/17, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Office Building
- **2017-11-13** CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2017-11-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2017-11-17** Now in Rules
- **2018-01-08** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/11/18, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Office Building
- **2018-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
- **2018-01-11** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2018-01-11** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-01-11** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2018-01-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2018-01-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/24/18
- **2018-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-24** Amendment(s) adopted (752890)
- **2018-01-24** Ordered engrossed
- **2018-01-24** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-01-31** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-02-01** In Messages
- **2018-02-08** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/18
- **2018-02-08** Received
- **2018-02-14** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 315
- **2018-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** CS passed; YEAS 109 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-02-20** 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. 2018-23, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 740 (Ch. 2018-84)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7ad0159-c92d-476e-9eb0-29acc4f6425b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).