---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Military Personnel and their Spouses and Dependents"
description: "Public Records/Military Personnel and their Spouses and Dependents; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for identification and location information of certain current and former military personnel and their spouses and dependents; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 548"
citation: "Florida SB 548 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-111"
primary_sponsors: ["Collins"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-11-20"
last_action: "2024-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da78b31f-e047-4c4e-8116-b9ef9e7fbe01"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/548/ByCategory"
source_hash: "317f1db9e41646846ece2d3e56c77c5918c4f89789c175b2846171a3796416f2"
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 548 (2024) — Public Records/Military Personnel and their Spouses and Dependents

Public Records/Military Personnel and their Spouses and Dependents; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for identification and location information of certain current and former military personnel and their spouses and dependents; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-111.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 548 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/548/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 548 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/548/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-20** Filed `filing`
- **2023-12-05** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 01/09/24, 2:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-10** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2024-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/22/24, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-22** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-23** Now in Rules
- **2024-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/30/24, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-01-30** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-08** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/24
- **2024-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-14** Passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-14** 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 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-29** Chapter No. 2024-111

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da78b31f-e047-4c4e-8116-b9ef9e7fbe01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).