---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles"
description: "Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; Revising regulations applicable to owners and drivers of commercial motor vehicles; revising the length of time within which an officer is authorized to give written notice requiring correction of an unduly hazardous operating condition; providing that owners and drivers of nonpublic sector buses operated on public highways of this state are subject to specified provisions of law; authorizing the department to conduct investigations and examinations of department-authorized private rebuilt inspection providers, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1134"
citation: "Florida SB 1134 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["motor vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-187"
primary_sponsors: ["Harrell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-08"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2485db9f-a488-4b6c-a3d5-c5785223e8ba"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1134/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b37d0819721da484a3718b8dfacc83e243ee5f2e4ed874d830a8269fbe4febf2"
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 1134 (2021) — Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; Revising regulations applicable to owners and drivers of commercial motor vehicles; revising the length of time within which an officer is authorized to give written notice requiring correction of an unduly hazardous operating condition; providing that owners and drivers of nonpublic sector buses operated on public highways of this state are subject to specified provisions of law; authorizing the department to conduct investigations and examinations of department-authorized private rebuilt inspection providers, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-187.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1134 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1134/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1134 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1134/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 1134 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1134/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harrell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-08** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Transportation; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/03/21, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-03** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2021-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/17/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-17** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/31/21, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-31** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/07/21
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-04-09** Amendment 834443 filed
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for CS/HB 1151
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Amendment 834443 adopted
- **2021-04-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** In returning messages
- **2021-04-27** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (834443)
- **2021-04-27** Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-187, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 1359 (Ch. 2021-237)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2485db9f-a488-4b6c-a3d5-c5785223e8ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).