---
type: "Bill"
title: "Beverage Law"
description: "Beverage Law; Authorizing certain food service establishments to sell or deliver certain alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption under certain circumstances; revising provisions that authorize a restaurant to allow patrons to remove partially consumed bottles of wine from a restaurant for off-premises consumption; revising requirements for the sale of alcoholic beverages by certain vendors; authorizing certain vendors to deliver specified alcoholic beverages under certain circumstances; specifying that certain alcoholic beverages are not open containers for the purposes of the prohibition on possessing open containers of alcoholic beverages in vehicles, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 148"
citation: "Florida SB 148 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["alcoholic beverages and tobacco", "motor vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-30"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-12-04"
last_action: "2021-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b94c6ac-5158-440e-a4d8-3ae491a3b360"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/148/ByCategory"
source_hash: "24fdb64d68dc35e750ae9e3966ec54a858e127922ef94fb2836abe64e7911ba4"
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 148 (2021) — Beverage Law

Beverage Law; Authorizing certain food service establishments to sell or deliver certain alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption under certain circumstances; revising provisions that authorize a restaurant to allow patrons to remove partially consumed bottles of wine from a restaurant for off-premises consumption; revising requirements for the sale of alcoholic beverages by certain vendors; authorizing certain vendors to deliver specified alcoholic beverages under certain circumstances; specifying that certain alcoholic beverages are not open containers for the purposes of the prohibition on possessing open containers of alcoholic beverages in vehicles, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-30.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 148 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/148/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 148 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/148/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 148 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/148/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 148 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/148/BillText/e2/HTML)
5. **S 148 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/148/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage — **111–1** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-04** Filed `filing`
- **2020-12-09** Referred to Regulated Industries; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 02/16/21, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-16** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-18** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-18** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2021-03-04** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/09/21, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-09** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/18/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/01/21
- **2021-04-01** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Amendment(s) adopted (350424)
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 2 `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 (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-09** Amendment 853337 filed
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for CS/HB 329
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Amendment 853337 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 115, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** In returning messages
- **2021-04-28** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (666848)
- **2021-04-28** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (853337)
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** In Messages
- **2021-04-28** Added to Senate Message List
- **2021-04-28** Amendment 666848 Concur
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 111, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-05-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-05-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-14** Chapter No. 2021-30

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b94c6ac-5158-440e-a4d8-3ae491a3b360`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).