---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation-related Facility Designations"
description: "Transportation-related Facility Designations; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in specified counties; revising the name of an honorary designation; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers and to examine the feasibility to rename the facilities specified; correcting the location of an honorary designation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "Florida SB 78 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["transportation designations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Broxson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-08-02"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/566bbeb7-0740-4709-bd9f-9e7ad2c00457"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/78/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5e48a88764791ebea98495256e510ed8dd2aa1b2a4b62eadbde5022f854a22ca"
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 78 (2020) — Transportation-related Facility Designations

Transportation-related Facility Designations; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in specified counties; revising the name of an honorary designation; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers and to examine the feasibility to rename the facilities specified; correcting the location of an honorary designation, etc.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 78 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/78/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 78 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/78/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 78 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/78/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 78 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/78/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 78 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/78/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 78 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/78/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Broxson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-02** Filed `filing`
- **2019-08-16** Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 02/10/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-10** CS by Infrastructure and Security; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-12** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2020-02-12** CS by Infrastructure and Security read 1st time
- **2020-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 02/18/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-18** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-20** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-27** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/20
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (282612)
- **2020-03-04** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** 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** Amendment(s) adopted (546285)
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** In returning messages
- **2020-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (546285)
- **2020-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/566bbeb7-0740-4709-bd9f-9e7ad2c00457`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).