---
type: "Bill"
title: "Historical Preservation Programs"
description: "Historical Preservation Programs; Requiring the Department of State to partner with the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network for a specified purpose; specifying preservation efforts that may be undertaken through the partnership; requiring the network to submit a list of member museums to the department, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 592"
citation: "Florida SB 592 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-75"
primary_sponsors: ["Burgess", "Fiscal Policy", "Governmental Oversight and Accountability"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-11-28"
last_action: "2024-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efa67b60-911e-4e7f-8ad6-979f11149e50"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/592/ByCategory"
source_hash: "fbdce0e026feb4a2f4f18fbc6e55bd1243b10b319945aefc3897c6c3b0bee51f"
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 592 (2024) — Historical Preservation Programs

Historical Preservation Programs; Requiring the Department of State to partner with the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network for a specified purpose; specifying preservation efforts that may be undertaken through the partnership; requiring the network to submit a list of member museums to the department, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-75.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 592 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/592/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 592 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/592/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 592 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/592/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 592 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/592/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **12–5** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **31–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burgess — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-28** Filed `filing`
- **2023-12-05** Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/22/24, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-01-22** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-23** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-23** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2024-01-24** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2024-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 02/13/24, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-02-13** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 5 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-22** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 12 NAYS 5
- **2024-02-23** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-27** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 31 NAYS 5 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** 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 (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **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 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-02** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-12** Chapter No. 2024-75

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efa67b60-911e-4e7f-8ad6-979f11149e50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).