---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lodging Standards"
description: "Lodging Standards; Citing this act as \"Miya’s Law\"; requiring landlords of nontransient or transient apartments to require employees to undergo background screenings as a condition of employment; revising what constitutes reasonable notice for repairs of dwelling units; requiring public lodging establishments licensed as nontransient or transient apartments to take certain actions relating to employee background screenings and keys for dwelling units; prohibiting an operator of a public lodging establishment from offering an hourly rate for an accommodation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 898"
citation: "Florida SB 898 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure", "regulation of trade", "commerce", "investments", "and"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-222"
primary_sponsors: ["Community Affairs", "Stewart"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-11-12"
last_action: "2022-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c751e7d4-867a-464c-9384-f54c8e937282"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/898/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ee5e1f68d11b4dec9a0532baba8d5d19612e2889897a4bcf80fcf5916599fd2c"
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 898 (2022) — Lodging Standards

Lodging Standards; Citing this act as "Miya’s Law"; requiring landlords of nontransient or transient apartments to require employees to undergo background screenings as a condition of employment; revising what constitutes reasonable notice for repairs of dwelling units; requiring public lodging establishments licensed as nontransient or transient apartments to take certain actions relating to employee background screenings and keys for dwelling units; prohibiting an operator of a public lodging establishment from offering an hourly rate for an accommodation, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-222.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 898 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/898/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 898 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/898/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 898 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/898/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 898 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/898/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Berman — cosponsor (person)
- Book — cosponsor (person)
- Bracy — cosponsor (person)
- Cruz — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Polsky — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Taddeo — cosponsor (person)
- Torres — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-12** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-30** Referred to Community Affairs; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/25/22, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-25** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-27** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-27** Original reference(s) removed: Judiciary; Rules
- **2022-01-27** Remaining references corrected to Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations
- **2022-01-27** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2022-01-27** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2022-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/22/22, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-02-22** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2022-02-22** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-28** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/02/22
- **2022-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-10** Was taken up
- **2022-03-10** Read 1st time
- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-10** Amendment 469845 adopted
- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 120, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** In returning messages
- **2022-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (469845)
- **2022-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2022-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-28** Chapter No. 2022-222

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c751e7d4-867a-464c-9384-f54c8e937282`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).