---
type: "Bill"
title: "Religious Institutions"
description: "Religious Institutions; Defining the term “religious institution”; providing that an emergency order may not directly or indirectly prohibit religious services or activities; providing an exception under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 254"
citation: "Florida SB 254 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["military affairs and related matters"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-208"
primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur", "Rules"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-09-17"
last_action: "2022-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2804ef9-ad92-4c51-a75d-8e4b3843807a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/254/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ed5cad6dd3be830aea118926d4895fcb5e04c1d96655c75881d05077d8381a36"
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 254 (2022) — Religious Institutions

Religious Institutions; Defining the term “religious institution”; providing that an emergency order may not directly or indirectly prohibit religious services or activities; providing an exception under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-208.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 254 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/254/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 254 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/254/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 254 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/254/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **14–2** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **88–29** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brodeur — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-17** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-13** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 11/30/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-11-30** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-01** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/13/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** CS by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 2
- **2022-01-13** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-14** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-18** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **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** CS passed; YEAS 31 NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2022-01-27** Immediately certified
- **2022-01-27** In Messages
- **2022-02-24** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
- **2022-02-24** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-01** Substituted for CS/HB 215
- **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 88, NAYS 29 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** 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. 2022-208

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2804ef9-ad92-4c51-a75d-8e4b3843807a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).