---
type: "Bill"
title: "Swimming Pool Specialty Contracting Services"
description: "Swimming Pool Specialty Contracting Services; Authorizing certain persons under the supervision of specified licensed contractors to perform certain specialty contracting services for commercial or residential swimming pools, interactive water features, hot tubs, and spas; providing that such supervision does not require a direct contract between those persons, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 222"
citation: "Florida SB 222 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-90"
primary_sponsors: ["Gruters"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-09-15"
last_action: "2022-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1c8adf9-38dd-408c-a5d7-4fd0998fd87c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/222/ByCategory"
source_hash: "43a25f01ed71cc2594228bff7514b068a56706f183bb00fd5e331b8ee0aa67d6"
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 222 (2022) — Swimming Pool Specialty Contracting Services

Swimming Pool Specialty Contracting Services; Authorizing certain persons under the supervision of specified licensed contractors to perform certain specialty contracting services for commercial or residential swimming pools, interactive water features, hot tubs, and spas; providing that such supervision does not require a direct contract between those persons, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-90.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 222 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/222/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 222 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/222/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gruters — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-15** Filed `filing`
- **2021-09-21** Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 11/02/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-11-02** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-02** Now in Community Affairs
- **2022-01-07** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/12/22, 9:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-12** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/20/22, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-20** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/27/22
- **2022-01-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-27** Passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-01-27** Immediately certified
- **2022-01-27** In Messages
- **2022-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2022)
- **2022-03-01** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-03-04** Substituted for HB 267
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-06** Chapter No. 2022-90

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1c8adf9-38dd-408c-a5d7-4fd0998fd87c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).