---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recreational Off-highway Vehicles"
description: "Recreational Off-highway Vehicles; Revising the definition of the term “ROV” to increase the weight limit of a specified vehicle, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 474"
citation: "Florida SB 474 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-93"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-13"
last_action: "2022-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a45e762-28c7-4834-99c0-65cd571282b7"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/474/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3fd6c2a19526548a568d5b419bec1822badb60c317cfa93a6245ef5f6afb969d"
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 474 (2022) — Recreational Off-highway Vehicles

Recreational Off-highway Vehicles; Revising the definition of the term “ROV” to increase the weight limit of a specified vehicle, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-93.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 474 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/474/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 474 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/474/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-13** Filed `filing`
- **2021-10-21** Referred to Agriculture; Transportation; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 12/02/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-12-02** Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-02** Now in Transportation
- **2022-01-07** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 01/12/22, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-12** Now in Rules
- **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
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/03/22
- **2022-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-03** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-03** 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 145
- **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 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** 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. 2022-93

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a45e762-28c7-4834-99c0-65cd571282b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).