---
type: "Bill"
title: "Spaceflight Entity Liability"
description: "Spaceflight Entity Liability; Defining the term “crew”; exempting a spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting from spaceflight activities under certain circumstances; requiring a spaceflight entity to have a crew sign a specified warning statement, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 1318"
citation: "Florida SB 1318 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-139"
primary_sponsors: ["Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security", "Wright"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-01"
last_action: "2023-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd4b272d-f1c3-48c4-80db-eda03cfa6b5c"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1318/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c3937f862fe0f62d21740841e668206856b240dbc37dbafbb94aeff910a77187"
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 1318 (2023) — Spaceflight Entity Liability

Spaceflight Entity Liability; Defining the term “crew”; exempting a spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting from spaceflight activities under certain circumstances; requiring a spaceflight entity to have a crew sign a specified warning statement, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-139.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1318 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1318/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1318 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1318/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1318 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1318/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1318 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1318/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **107–5** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security — primary (person)
- Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-01** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-24** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/29/23, 12:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2023-03-29** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-31** Original reference(s) removed: Judiciary
- **2023-03-31** Remaining references corrected to Rules
- **2023-03-31** Now in Rules
- **2023-03-31** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security read 1st time
- **2023-04-19** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/24/23, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-24** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/23
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Amendment(s) adopted (188692)
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-05-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/2/2023)
- **2023-05-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** CS passed; YEAS 107, NAYS 5 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-26** Chapter No. 2023-139

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd4b272d-f1c3-48c4-80db-eda03cfa6b5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).