---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ethics Requirements for Public Officials"
description: "Ethics Requirements for Public Officials; Requiring candidates for specified elective offices to file a full and public disclosure at the time of qualifying; requiring commissioners of community redevelopment agencies to complete annual ethics training; requiring specified local officers and members of the Commission on Ethics to file full and public disclosures; deleting a prohibition on including a federal income tax return or copy thereof in a financial disclosure; increasing the maximum civil penalty allowed for certain violations related to statements of financial disclosure, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 774"
citation: "Florida SB 774 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["electors and elections"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-49"
primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur", "Ethics and Elections", "Rules"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cdc15a0-02b2-400b-a3c2-205b1472d05e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/774/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e77a6a981c641c5e12abf088539d5474cdb3c2df665a009a38bd28fce4db617f"
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 774 (2023) — Ethics Requirements for Public Officials

Ethics Requirements for Public Officials; Requiring candidates for specified elective offices to file a full and public disclosure at the time of qualifying; requiring commissioners of community redevelopment agencies to complete annual ethics training; requiring specified local officers and members of the Commission on Ethics to file full and public disclosures; deleting a prohibition on including a federal income tax return or copy thereof in a financial disclosure; increasing the maximum civil penalty allowed for certain violations related to statements of financial disclosure, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-49.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 774 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/774/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 774 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/774/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 774 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/774/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 774 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/774/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 774 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/774/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–2** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–4** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–2** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **35–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brodeur — primary (person)
- Ethics and Elections — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Ethics and Elections; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 03/14/23, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-14** CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 8 NAYS 2
- **2023-03-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-16** Now in Rules
- **2023-03-21** CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time
- **2023-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/30/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-30** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 4
- **2023-03-31** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-31** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-31** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2023-04-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/11/23
- **2023-04-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Amendment(s) adopted (372388)
- **2023-04-11** Ordered engrossed
- **2023-04-11** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 5 `passage`
- **2023-04-12** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-12** In Messages
- **2023-04-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-20** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 37
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-12** Chapter No. 2023-49

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cdc15a0-02b2-400b-a3c2-205b1472d05e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).