---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government Employees"
description: "Local Government Employees; Revising the base salary used to calculate the compensation of county tax collectors; defining the term “tax collector employee”; providing that tax collector employees are eligible to receive specified monetary benefits from the state for adopting children within the child welfare system; revising the base salary used to calculate the compensation of district school superintendents, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 958"
citation: "Florida SB 958 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)", "(vetoed)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-90"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-14"
last_action: "2024-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de96bf71-e191-435f-9a95-a98f10d74cbb"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/958/ByCategory"
source_hash: "017a14459a4c84f7a2d52ae1cddaaa079db09700f1d50fc6a8abbd50d4f394a7"
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 958 (2024) — Local Government Employees

Local Government Employees; Revising the base salary used to calculate the compensation of county tax collectors; defining the term “tax collector employee”; providing that tax collector employees are eligible to receive specified monetary benefits from the state for adopting children within the child welfare system; revising the base salary used to calculate the compensation of district school superintendents, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-90.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 958 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/958/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 958 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/958/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **110–3** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Martin — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-14** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-04** Referred to Community Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/22/24, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-01-22** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-23** Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- **2024-02-15** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 02/20/24, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-20** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-02-22** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/27/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-27** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-28** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** 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 110, NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-02** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-15** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-16** Chapter No. 2024-90, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/HB 1083 (Ch. 2024-177)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de96bf71-e191-435f-9a95-a98f10d74cbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).