---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assistive Technology Advisory Council"
description: "Assistive Technology Advisory Council; Revising provisions relating to the membership of and appointments and reappointments to the Assistive Technology Advisory Council; requiring council members to select a chair from among the council membership; revising provisions relating to committees appointed to perform the council’s functions; expanding the council’s functions to include fundraising activities, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 418"
citation: "Florida SB 418 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-18"
primary_sponsors: ["Pizzo"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-07"
last_action: "2022-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/995105fe-476e-4852-95d6-84477b5f71d4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/418/ByCategory"
source_hash: "82dc48a8e720f8ad50d4fda989b00446698a5179476fe3c7437d856a0c2ed33f"
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 418 (2022) — Assistive Technology Advisory Council

Assistive Technology Advisory Council; Revising provisions relating to the membership of and appointments and reappointments to the Assistive Technology Advisory Council; requiring council members to select a chair from among the council membership; revising provisions relating to committees appointed to perform the council’s functions; expanding the council’s functions to include fundraising activities, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-18.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 418 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/418/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 418 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/418/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pizzo — primary (person)
- Gruters — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-07** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-13** Referred to Education; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Education, 11/30/21, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-11-30** Favorable by Education; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-30** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2022-01-03** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/10/22, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-10** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-11** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-27** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-07** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/10/22
- **2022-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-10** In Messages
- **2022-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-02-28** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for HB 55
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-03-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-03-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-28** Chapter No. 2022-18

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/995105fe-476e-4852-95d6-84477b5f71d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).