---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibited Applications on Government-issued Devices"
description: "Prohibited Applications on Government-issued Devices; Requiring public employers to take certain actions relating to prohibited applications; prohibiting employees and officers of public employers from downloading or accessing prohibited applications on government-issued devices; providing exceptions; providing a deadline by which specified employees must remove, delete, or uninstall a prohibited application; requiring the Department of Management Services to compile a specified list and establish procedures for a specified waiver, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 258"
citation: "Florida SB 258 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-32"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess", "Fiscal Policy", "Governmental Oversight and Accountability"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-22"
last_action: "2023-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d910e365-347a-4e19-b2bf-21a186fa92a4"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/258/ByCategory"
source_hash: "276e8438fc0d880da450cf31eed26b025695857cdccb4b6c8d11044470c32d4b"
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 258 (2023) — Prohibited Applications on Government-issued Devices

Prohibited Applications on Government-issued Devices; Requiring public employers to take certain actions relating to prohibited applications; prohibiting employees and officers of public employers from downloading or accessing prohibited applications on government-issued devices; providing exceptions; providing a deadline by which specified employees must remove, delete, or uninstall a prohibited application; requiring the Department of Management Services to compile a specified list and establish procedures for a specified waiver, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-32.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 258 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/258/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 258 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/258/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 258 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/258/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 258 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/258/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burgess — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-22** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-10** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/15/23, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2023-03-15** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-17** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/23/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-21** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2023-03-23** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-23** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-23** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2023-03-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/11/23
- **2023-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-12** 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 (Committee Substitute 2) `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 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-08** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-08** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-09** Chapter No. 2023-32

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d910e365-347a-4e19-b2bf-21a186fa92a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).