---
type: "Bill"
title: "Proceeds Funding Motorcycle Safety Education"
description: "Proceeds Funding Motorcycle Safety Education; Requiring that the motorcycle safety education fee be used for a safety and education program administered by Florida not-for-profit corporations; specifying requirements for the administrators of such program; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to enter into certain contracts for a specified purpose; specifying the requirements of the safety awareness and education programs; requiring the department to select program administrators and enter into specified contracts by a specified date, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 838"
citation: "Florida SB 838 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-118"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Collins", "Transportation"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-15"
last_action: "2023-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4056035-bc56-4147-8a98-ec749e54e1a3"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/838/ByCategory"
source_hash: "43567256714e8e6d670fcccb72b36fe69d4eae01bfa08f94be94df2106510e85"
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 838 (2023) — Proceeds Funding Motorcycle Safety Education

Proceeds Funding Motorcycle Safety Education; Requiring that the motorcycle safety education fee be used for a safety and education program administered by Florida not-for-profit corporations; specifying requirements for the administrators of such program; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to enter into certain contracts for a specified purpose; specifying the requirements of the safety awareness and education programs; requiring the department to select program administrators and enter into specified contracts by a specified date, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-118.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 838 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/838/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 838 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/838/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 838 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/838/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 838 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/838/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Collins — primary (person)
- Transportation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-15** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/20/23, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-20** CS by Transportation; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-22** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-22** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2023-03-22** CS by Transportation read 1st time
- **2023-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 04/18/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-04-18** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-18** Now in Appropriations
- **2023-04-20** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/25/23, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-04-25** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2023-04-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/28/23
- **2023-04-26** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed; 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 (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 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-25** Chapter No. 2023-118

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4056035-bc56-4147-8a98-ec749e54e1a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).