---
type: "Bill"
title: "Yacht and Ship Brokers’ Act"
description: "Yacht and Ship Brokers’ Act; Revising the definition of the term “yacht”; exempting a person who conducts business as a broker or salesperson in another state from licensure in this state for specified transactions; requiring, rather than authorizing, the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to deny licenses based on certain criteria, etc"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 92"
citation: "Florida SB 92 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-195"
primary_sponsors: ["Hooper"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-10-04"
last_action: "2024-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1165067d-8782-4e4e-a335-56a597da0d92"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/92/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0949e0f7ae52421aaeece584fb5b2a77b30e8c3817721a394a5ff4d7d08d925d"
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 92 (2024) — Yacht and Ship Brokers’ Act

Yacht and Ship Brokers’ Act; Revising the definition of the term “yacht”; exempting a person who conducts business as a broker or salesperson in another state from licensure in this state for specified transactions; requiring, rather than authorizing, the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to deny licenses based on certain criteria, etc

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-195.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 92 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/92/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 92 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/92/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 92 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/92/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-10-04** Filed `filing`
- **2023-10-17** Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-27** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 12/06/23, 8:30 am, 401 Senate Building
- **2023-12-06** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-12-06** Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-12** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/17/24, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-01-17** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-17** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-01-26** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/31/24, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-01-31** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-01** 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 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-14** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-14** 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 (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Amendment 642737 adopted
- **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** Passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** In returning messages
- **2024-03-06** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (642737)
- **2024-03-06** Passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-20** Chapter No. 2024-195

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1165067d-8782-4e4e-a335-56a597da0d92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).