---
type: "Bill"
title: "Police Vehicles"
description: "Police Vehicles; Prohibiting a person from knowingly selling, exchanging, or transferring a police vehicle without removing any police markings from the vehicle; requiring law enforcement agencies to provide an official letter of notification that the police markings have been removed; exempting sales, exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles to members of the public for the purposes of collection or display from specified requirements, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1508"
citation: "Florida SB 1508 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-62"
primary_sponsors: ["Taddeo"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c37a792-82bd-4821-905f-e06c7e9aa76b"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1508/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4c01e84965880c88f5c1888607ec50b5b1ce9929f541b0862740c9f5a201163a"
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 1508 (2020) — Police Vehicles

Police Vehicles; Prohibiting a person from knowingly selling, exchanging, or transferring a police vehicle without removing any police markings from the vehicle; requiring law enforcement agencies to provide an official letter of notification that the police markings have been removed; exempting sales, exchanges, or transfers of police vehicles to members of the public for the purposes of collection or display from specified requirements, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-62.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1508 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1508/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1508 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1508/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1508 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1508/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1508 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1508/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Taddeo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-13** Referred to Criminal Justice; Infrastructure and Security; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-02-06** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/11/20, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2020-02-11** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-12** Now in Infrastructure and Security
- **2020-02-12** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2020-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 02/17/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-17** CS/CS by Infrastructure and Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-19** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-19** Now in Rules
- **2020-02-19** CS/CS by Infrastructure and Security read 1st time
- **2020-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-26** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-22** Chapter No. 2020-62

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c37a792-82bd-4821-905f-e06c7e9aa76b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).