---
type: "Bill"
title: "Care for Retired Police Dogs"
description: "Care for Retired Police Dogs; Citing this act as the \"Care for Retired Police Dogs Program Act\"; creating the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program within the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the department to contract with a nonprofit corporation to administer and manage the program; specifying requirements for the disbursement of funds for the veterinary care of eligible retired police dogs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "Florida SB 226 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "criminal procedure and corrections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-188"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Powell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-09-15"
last_action: "2022-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8cb9db0-8427-47c5-92ea-8e9b4a38f5f2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/226/ByCategory"
source_hash: "594c04302a9b8f32e2c665c45791bbcece5147ac1e4e2feb64bbc145d408803f"
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 226 (2022) — Care for Retired Police Dogs

Care for Retired Police Dogs; Citing this act as the "Care for Retired Police Dogs Program Act"; creating the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program within the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the department to contract with a nonprofit corporation to administer and manage the program; specifying requirements for the disbursement of funds for the veterinary care of eligible retired police dogs, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-188.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 226 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/226/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 226 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/226/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 226 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/226/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Powell — primary (person)
- Burgess — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Pizzo — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-15** Filed `filing`
- **2021-09-21** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 11/02/21, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-11-02** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-02** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 12/01/21, 4:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-12-01** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-12-02** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-24** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-25** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
- **2022-02-28** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** 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 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-10** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-13** Chapter No. 2022-188

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8cb9db0-8427-47c5-92ea-8e9b4a38f5f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).