---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel Office"
description: "Public Records/Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel Office; Expanding a public records exemption to include all records pertaining to a registration application submitted by any criminal conflict and civil regional counsel office for a registration certificate and registration license plate or decal issued under a fictitious name; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing a statement of public necessity, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 598"
citation: "Florida SB 598 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-196"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxley", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-21"
last_action: "2022-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b16b594-f648-45b0-8bf8-2b00e471cc5e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/598/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6dd0e5b0c71eae0610aa7a20f368a6b69ed4873836b55c88707bbb4249dac7e2"
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 598 (2022) — Public Records/Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel Office

Public Records/Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel Office; Expanding a public records exemption to include all records pertaining to a registration application submitted by any criminal conflict and civil regional counsel office for a registration certificate and registration license plate or decal issued under a fictitious name; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-196.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 598 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/598/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 598 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/598/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 598 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/598/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Baxley — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-03** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-03** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/10/22, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-10** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2022-01-12** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2022-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 01/19/22, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-19** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-19** 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 19 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 38 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** 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; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-21** Chapter No. 2022-196, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 596 (Ch. 2022-195)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b16b594-f648-45b0-8bf8-2b00e471cc5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).