---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Insurance"
description: "Motor Vehicle Insurance; Requiring agencies that employ law enforcement officers to maintain motor vehicle insurance under certain circumstances; providing exceptions; providing liability limitations; providing methods in which the employing agency may meet the liability insurance requirements, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 266"
citation: "Florida SB 266 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["crimes", "criminal procedure and corrections", "insurance", "labor", "public officers", "employees", "and records", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-91"
primary_sponsors: ["Criminal Justice", "Diaz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-09-21"
last_action: "2022-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70c1b958-0cbe-4d24-ad03-976d9d13b817"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/266/ByCategory"
source_hash: "cb63638f715c079889f49ecd58124376c7745e271788366c4b88497b03c6f07d"
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 266 (2022) — Motor Vehicle Insurance

Motor Vehicle Insurance; Requiring agencies that employ law enforcement officers to maintain motor vehicle insurance under certain circumstances; providing exceptions; providing liability limitations; providing methods in which the employing agency may meet the liability insurance requirements, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-91.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 266 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/266/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 266 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/266/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 266 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/266/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 266 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/266/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice — primary (person)
- Diaz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-13** Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/11/22, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-12** Original reference(s) removed: Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2022-01-12** Remaining references corrected to Banking and Insurance; Appropriations
- **2022-01-12** Now in Banking and Insurance
- **2022-01-18** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 01/25/22, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-25** Favorable by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-26** 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
- **2022-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
- **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** Amendment 477889 adopted
- **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 as amended; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** In returning messages
- **2022-03-09** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (477889)
- **2022-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-05-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-06** Chapter No. 2022-91

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70c1b958-0cbe-4d24-ad03-976d9d13b817`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).