---
type: "Bill"
title: "Identification Cards"
description: "Identification Cards; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue or renew identification cards at no charge to persons presenting a valid voter’s registration card and attesting to financial hardship; prohibiting the department from requiring such persons to present certain evidence; requiring the department to issue identification cards at no charge to certain other persons, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "Florida SB 144 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["motor vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-206"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8137ac68-b0bd-465c-9c4d-582f9074c503"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/144/ByCategory"
source_hash: "227fe9dd0c6bdddf0c3d232bffe53a0ed2276febd1e44f7639e000a4652fd179"
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 144 (2022) — Identification Cards

Identification Cards; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to issue or renew identification cards at no charge to persons presenting a valid voter’s registration card and attesting to financial hardship; prohibiting the department from requiring such persons to present certain evidence; requiring the department to issue identification cards at no charge to certain other persons, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-206.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 144 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/144/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 144 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/144/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **35–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 01/18/22, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-18** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-18** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-19** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-24** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
- **2022-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-27** Chapter No. 2022-206

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8137ac68-b0bd-465c-9c4d-582f9074c503`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).