---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Aquaculture/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services"
description: "Public Records/Aquaculture/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing a public records exemption for certain aquaculture records held by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing that the records may be disclosed to other governmental entities under certain circumstances; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing for future legislative review and repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1634"
citation: "Florida SB 1634 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["industry"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-59"
primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-24"
last_action: "2021-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e973e4f-f871-47bc-bc1a-e2e6770234e5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1634/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6f2c8c864e85ca15ec1fcdeb3ef2a489f909d37947babf47f993facc227ebc34"
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 1634 (2021) — Public Records/Aquaculture/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Public Records/Aquaculture/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing a public records exemption for certain aquaculture records held by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; providing that the records may be disclosed to other governmental entities under certain circumstances; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing for future legislative review and repeal under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-59.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1634 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1634/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1634 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1634/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brodeur — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-24** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-02** Referred to Agriculture; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-05** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 03/10/21, 10:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-10** Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2021-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/31/21, 8:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-31** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-01** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/06/21, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-06** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/14/21
- **2021-04-14** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2021-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-15** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-15** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** Passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-04** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Chapter No. 2021-59

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e973e4f-f871-47bc-bc1a-e2e6770234e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).