---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle and Vessel Registration"
description: "Vehicle and Vessel Registration; Authorizing tax collectors to determine service charges collected by privately owned license plate agents for motor vehicle titles; requiring that additional service charges be itemized and disclosed to the person paying them; requiring a license plate agent to enter into a contract with the tax collector for a certain purpose; requiring tax collectors and approved license plate agents to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department for a certain purpose, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 342"
citation: "Florida SB 342 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-171"
primary_sponsors: ["Diaz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-21"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c16e54c-01a8-4c49-850d-04ebc71064cc"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/342/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4e03a2fa1e7246fa267ceffec8afa8a20a4b7bf824895df1829fb4f89a55ce01"
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 342 (2021) — Vehicle and Vessel Registration

Vehicle and Vessel Registration; Authorizing tax collectors to determine service charges collected by privately owned license plate agents for motor vehicle titles; requiring that additional service charges be itemized and disclosed to the person paying them; requiring a license plate agent to enter into a contract with the tax collector for a certain purpose; requiring tax collectors and approved license plate agents to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department for a certain purpose, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-171.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 342 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/342/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 342 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/342/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 342 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/342/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Diaz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Transportation; Finance and Tax; 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** CS by Transportation; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-05** Now in Finance and Tax
- **2021-03-10** CS by Transportation read 1st time
- **2021-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Finance and Tax, 03/18/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-18** Favorable by Finance and Tax; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** 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** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-14** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-14** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-171

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c16e54c-01a8-4c49-850d-04ebc71064cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).