---
type: "Bill"
title: "Judicial Notice"
description: "Judicial Notice; Authorizing courts to take judicial notice of certain information taken from widely accepted web mapping services, global satellite imaging sites, or Internet mapping tools upon request of a party; requiring parties who intend to offer such information into evidence to file a notice of intent containing specified information; authorizing parties to object to the court taking judicial notice of such information; creating a rebuttable presumption in civil cases that such information should be judicially noticed unless certain findings are made, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 634"
citation: "Florida SB 634 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-100"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley", "Commerce and Tourism", "Rules"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-10-25"
last_action: "2022-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cad130bf-2919-4d17-84e3-df446f008cc5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/634/ByCategory"
source_hash: "91f3595c9a019ed708004ba745400bcd4ed15ba1dda7583f95a7484dd118574a"
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 634 (2022) — Judicial Notice

Judicial Notice; Authorizing courts to take judicial notice of certain information taken from widely accepted web mapping services, global satellite imaging sites, or Internet mapping tools upon request of a party; requiring parties who intend to offer such information into evidence to file a notice of intent containing specified information; authorizing parties to object to the court taking judicial notice of such information; creating a rebuttable presumption in civil cases that such information should be judicially noticed unless certain findings are made, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-100.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 634 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/634/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 634 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/634/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **S 634 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/634/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 634 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/634/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)
- Commerce and Tourism — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-25** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-16** Referred to Judiciary; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 11/30/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2022-01-03** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/10/22, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-10** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-11** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/24/22, 3:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-24** CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-25** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-26** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-26** CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
- **2022-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-03** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-04** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-07** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/10/22
- **2022-02-09** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2022-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** CS 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 (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/HB 677
- **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** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-10** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-11** Chapter No. 2022-100

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cad130bf-2919-4d17-84e3-df446f008cc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).