---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic Access to Official Records"
description: "Electronic Access to Official Records; Requiring the county recorder or clerk of the court to make certain information publicly available through a searchable database on the county recorder’s or clerk of the court’s official website; authorizing such requirement to be satisfied by providing a stand-alone link to the official records index, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1616"
citation: "Florida SB 1616 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-117"
primary_sponsors: ["Calatayud", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/760cffd8-ae2e-4163-977d-c3a87ffc3d0f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1616/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e126b0b3f064c558268288f0da9f186bf4f63f097442236b669f0841750bd829"
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 1616 (2024) — Electronic Access to Official Records

Electronic Access to Official Records; Requiring the county recorder or clerk of the court to make certain information publicly available through a searchable database on the county recorder’s or clerk of the court’s official website; authorizing such requirement to be satisfied by providing a stand-alone link to the official records index, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-117.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1616 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1616/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1616 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1616/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1616 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1616/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1616 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1616/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Calatayud — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-11** Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/05/24, 2:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-02-05** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-07** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-07** Original reference(s) removed: Community Affairs
- **2024-02-07** Remaining references corrected to Appropriations
- **2024-02-07** Now in Appropriations
- **2024-02-07** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2024-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/15/24, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-02-15** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `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** Amendment(s) adopted (220544)
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** 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. 2024-117

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/760cffd8-ae2e-4163-977d-c3a87ffc3d0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).