---
type: "Bill"
title: "Campaign Finance"
description: "Campaign Finance; Repealing provisions relating to the Florida Election Campaign Financing Act; deleting provisions governing the public funding of campaigns for candidates for statewide office who agree to certain expenditure limits, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1116"
citation: "Florida SB 1116 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["electors and elections", "vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-116"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-28"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c52bb000-ae41-4f94-969b-a7b9190a7ca6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1116/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ce9f4cba924b0f94eceafa85c063923a7e87cd0a10561b4c48015f6cbacb7e68"
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 1116 (2024) — Campaign Finance

Campaign Finance; Repealing provisions relating to the Florida Election Campaign Financing Act; deleting provisions governing the public funding of campaigns for candidates for statewide office who agree to certain expenditure limits, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-116.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1116 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1116/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1116 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1116/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **12–5** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **28–12** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **83–29** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-28** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-08** Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 01/16/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-16** Favorable by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 5 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-17** Now in Judiciary
- **2024-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/29/24, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-29** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 7 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/14/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-14** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 12 NAYS 5 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed; YEAS 28 NAYS 12 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
- **2024-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed; YEAS 83, NAYS 29 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-29** Chapter No. 2024-116, companion bill(s) passed, see SJR 1114 (Passed)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c52bb000-ae41-4f94-969b-a7b9190a7ca6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).