---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Administration"
description: "Election Administration; Requiring the Secretary of State to notify the Attorney General if signatures required for an initiative petition are no longer valid; creating the Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Department of State; revising the frequency with which supervisors of elections must conduct a registration list maintenance program; requiring the Department of State to identify deceased registered voters using information received by specified agencies; requiring specified individuals observing the ballot duplication process to sign a specified affidavit acknowledging certain criminal penalties, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 524"
citation: "Florida SB 524 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["county organization and intergovernmental relations", "criminal procedure and corrections", "electors and elections", "executive branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-73"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Ethics and Elections", "Hutson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 48
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-10-18"
last_action: "2022-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a8bcf0c-7d64-4aea-868d-72ba8285b4c0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/524/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b61201f8803e6f0ce3e552a1372e970ae3383c7ba218481720b5944e97b40b0a"
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 524 (2022) — Election Administration

Election Administration; Requiring the Secretary of State to notify the Attorney General if signatures required for an initiative petition are no longer valid; creating the Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Department of State; revising the frequency with which supervisors of elections must conduct a registration list maintenance program; requiring the Department of State to identify deceased registered voters using information received by specified agencies; requiring specified individuals observing the ballot duplication process to sign a specified affidavit acknowledging certain criminal penalties, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-73.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 524 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/524/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 524 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/524/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 524 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/524/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 524 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/524/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 524 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/524/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **76–41** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **12–8** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **24–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Ethics and Elections — primary (person)
- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-18** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-03** Referred to Ethics and Elections; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-27** On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 02/01/22, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-02-01** CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 5 NAYS 3
- **2022-02-03** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-03** Original reference(s) removed: Community Affairs; Rules
- **2022-02-03** Remaining references corrected to Appropriations
- **2022-02-03** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-09** CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time
- **2022-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-24** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 12 NAYS 8
- **2022-02-28** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-28** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Amendment(s) failed (254940, 576742, 812472, 911450) -SJ 552, 553, 560
- **2022-03-03** Amendment(s) adopted (203418)
- **2022-03-03** Ordered engrossed
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 24 NAYS 14 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
- **2022-03-07** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 877031 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 242157 temporarily postponed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 104691 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 242157 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 433581 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 241923 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 047577 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 428229 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 744331 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 555115 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 369619 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 646597 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 76, NAYS 41 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-25** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-26** Chapter No. 2022-73

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a8bcf0c-7d64-4aea-868d-72ba8285b4c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).