---
type: "Bill"
title: "Money Services Businesses"
description: "Money Services Businesses; Provides that control persons of money services businesses, rather than officers, are not liable for loss or damages under certain circumstances; requires licensees to report changes in control persons, rather than in certain other entities or persons; provides that addition of control person, rather than certain other entities or persons, is subject to certain requirements; revises requirements for applications for licensure as money services business."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 389"
citation: "Florida HB 389 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of trade", "commerce", "investments", "and"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-135"
primary_sponsors: ["Zika"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 48
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-10-21"
last_action: "2022-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/991f589e-bc8f-42a2-93ac-ec96d793cf64"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/389/ByCategory"
source_hash: "59971996850acc48bbfc05178a9b44d929c7b8c11121a47bbf1a76c1c656362d"
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 HB 389 (2022) — Money Services Businesses

Money Services Businesses; Provides that control persons of money services businesses, rather than officers, are not liable for loss or damages under certain circumstances; requires licensees to report changes in control persons, rather than in certain other entities or persons; provides that addition of control person, rather than certain other entities or persons, is subject to certain requirements; revises requirements for applications for licensure as money services business.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-135.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 389 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/389/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 389 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/389/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 389 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/389/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 389 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/389/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Commerce Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Quorum, Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Insurance and Banking Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- State Administration and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Zika — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-05** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-25** PCS added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-27** Favorable with CS by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2022-01-27** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2022-01-27** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-01-27** CS Filed
- **2022-01-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-01-31** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Now in State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-11** Added to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-15** Favorable with CS by State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-15** Reported out of State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-15** CS Filed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2022-02-16** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2022-02-21** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2022-02-23** Favorable by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-24** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2022-02-24** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Received
- **2022-03-04** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1536
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-20** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-26** Chapter No. 2022-135

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/991f589e-bc8f-42a2-93ac-ec96d793cf64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).