---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterans’ Preference in Employment"
description: "Veterans’ Preference in Employment; Authorizing the state and its political subdivisions to waive certain postsecondary educational requirements for employment for servicemembers and veterans who meet specified criteria; revising the list of positions that are exempt from veterans’ preference requirements; requiring, rather than authorizing, each political subdivision to develop and implement a veterans’ recruitment plan for specified purposes; modifying point preferences given to veterans and their family members when a numerically based selection process is used for hiring, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 922"
citation: "Florida SB 922 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["veterans"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-57"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb839584-d221-4655-8af4-4c2a6fc47ac4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/922/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0ca6980c13a11a946e1f82de6046c2525183390266c417ebeb92bb7b6a318f15"
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 922 (2021) — Veterans’ Preference in Employment

Veterans’ Preference in Employment; Authorizing the state and its political subdivisions to waive certain postsecondary educational requirements for employment for servicemembers and veterans who meet specified criteria; revising the list of positions that are exempt from veterans’ preference requirements; requiring, rather than authorizing, each political subdivision to develop and implement a veterans’ recruitment plan for specified purposes; modifying point preferences given to veterans and their family members when a numerically based selection process is used for hiring, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-57.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 922 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/922/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 922 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/922/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burgess — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-04** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/09/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-09** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `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** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-01** 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)
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for HB 541
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **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** Passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** 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. 2021-57

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb839584-d221-4655-8af4-4c2a6fc47ac4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).