---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Rentals"
description: "Motor Vehicle Rentals; Specifying the applicable sales tax rate on motor vehicle leases and rentals by motor vehicle rental companies and peer-to-peer car-sharing programs; specifying applicability of the surcharge; requiring motor vehicle rental companies to collect specified surcharges; specifying the applicable rental car surcharge on peer-to-peer car-sharing program agreements involving shared vehicles; specifying motor vehicle insurance requirements for peer-to-peer car-sharing programs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 566"
citation: "Florida SB 566 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-175"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7af7acac-b27a-4dbe-a034-6e3bcbafa364"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/566/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d0b0cb866135e8c6bd56746caffb41f4ae3c179a50b0ad0d5ec02cc8a8b948e6"
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 566 (2021) — Motor Vehicle Rentals

Motor Vehicle Rentals; Specifying the applicable sales tax rate on motor vehicle leases and rentals by motor vehicle rental companies and peer-to-peer car-sharing programs; specifying applicability of the surcharge; requiring motor vehicle rental companies to collect specified surcharges; specifying the applicable rental car surcharge on peer-to-peer car-sharing program agreements involving shared vehicles; specifying motor vehicle insurance requirements for peer-to-peer car-sharing programs, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-175.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 566 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/566/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 566 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/566/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 566 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/566/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 566 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/566/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **101–15** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **28–12** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **13–7** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-21** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Transportation; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-16** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 03/16/21, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2021-03-19** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 03/24/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-24** CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 11 NAYS 1
- **2021-03-25** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-25** Now in Transportation
- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/30/21, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-25** CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2021-03-30** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-19** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 13 NAYS 7
- **2021-04-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Amendment(s) failed (499310)
- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 28 NAYS 12 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** 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 (Committee Substitute 2)
- **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** CS passed; YEAS 101, NAYS 15 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-175

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7af7acac-b27a-4dbe-a034-6e3bcbafa364`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).