---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retail Theft"
description: "Retail Theft; Prohibiting certain retail theft at multiple locations within a specified timeframe; providing criminal penalties, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1534"
citation: "Florida SB 1534 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-192"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd", "Criminal Justice"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-05"
last_action: "2022-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e40105c-df9c-42a9-b69e-dcadb17f731a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1534/ByCategory"
source_hash: "56bb18da01cc1b12add1c951b644c6b89a810816645a1d628e69e98443286129"
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 1534 (2022) — Retail Theft

Retail Theft; Prohibiting certain retail theft at multiple locations within a specified timeframe; providing criminal penalties, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-192.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1534 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1534/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1534 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1534/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1534 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1534/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Quorum, Third Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **18–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **80–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)
- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- Diaz — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-12** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/25/22, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-25** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-25** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-26** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2022-01-26** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2022-01-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/01/22, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-02-01** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-01** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-04** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/09/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-09** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/17/22
- **2022-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-17** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-17** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-17** In Messages
- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 80, NAYS 36 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-17** Chapter No. 2022-192

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e40105c-df9c-42a9-b69e-dcadb17f731a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).