---
type: "Bill"
title: "Specialty License Plates"
description: "Specialty License Plates; Exempts collegiate license plates from certain discontinuation & presale voucher requirements for specialty license plates; requires DHSMV to reauthorize previously discontinued collegiate license plates; renames & revises words appearing on certain plates; directs DHSMV to develop specified plates; provides for distribution & use of fees collected from sale of plates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 403"
citation: "Florida HB 403 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-270"
primary_sponsors: ["Chaney"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-11-09"
last_action: "2024-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38c97a60-4787-4e01-bc06-ad82566fda02"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/403/ByCategory"
source_hash: "34c506d377516c3ae8a83909b1f52953f687ff0ef15275659a689764b4597274"
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 HB 403 (2024) — Specialty License Plates

Specialty License Plates; Exempts collegiate license plates from certain discontinuation & presale voucher requirements for specialty license plates; requires DHSMV to reauthorize previously discontinued collegiate license plates; renames & revises words appearing on certain plates; directs DHSMV to develop specified plates; provides for distribution & use of fees collected from sale of plates.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-270.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 403 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/403/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 403 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/403/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 403 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/403/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 403 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/403/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 403 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/403/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **108–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chaney — primary (person)
- Infrastructure Strategies Committee — primary (organization)
- Transportation & Modals Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Berfield — cosponsor (person)
- Caruso — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Skidmore — cosponsor (person)
- Waldron — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-09** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-22** Referred to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-22** Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-22** Now in Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** Added to Transportation & Modals Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-25** Favorable with CS by Transportation & Modals Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** Reported out of Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
- **2024-01-26** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-26** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-29** Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee
- **2024-02-13** PCS added to Infrastructure Strategies Committee agenda
- **2024-02-15** Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** Reported out of Infrastructure Strategies Committee
- **2024-02-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-15** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-15** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/21/2024)
- **2024-02-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Amendment 468371 adopted
- **2024-02-21** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** CS passed as amended; YEAS 108, NAYS 6 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-02-23** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-04** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 434
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-06-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-28** Chapter No. 2024-270

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38c97a60-4787-4e01-bc06-ad82566fda02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).