---
type: "Bill"
title: "Advertisements for Representation Services"
description: "Advertisements for Representation Services; Prohibits notaries public from using specified terms to describe themselves; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs; requires certain businesses or persons offering immigration services to make specified disclosure; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 915"
citation: "Florida HB 915 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations", "criminal procedure and corrections", "public officers", "employees", "and records"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-82"
primary_sponsors: ["López, J.", "Woodson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-23"
last_action: "2025-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49e56a1d-da9c-4f21-880a-ac6374bc3930"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/915/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3743a2fd603513a029ec21199347afa96f5e2041633128af9e1c5bf7004508ea"
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 HB 915 (2025) — Advertisements for Representation Services

Advertisements for Representation Services; Prohibits notaries public from using specified terms to describe themselves; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs; requires certain businesses or persons offering immigration services to make specified disclosure; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-82.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 915 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/915/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 915 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/915/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 915 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/915/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- López, J. — primary (person)
- Woodson — primary (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
- Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Valdés — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-23** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** PCS added to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with CS by Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Reported out of Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
- **2025-04-03** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-03** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-03** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** Referred to Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Now in Judiciary Committee
- **2025-04-15** Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
- **2025-04-17** Favorable by Judiciary Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Reported out of Judiciary Committee
- **2025-04-17** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
- **2025-04-24** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-25** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-25** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-28** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 846
- **2025-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-28** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Chapter No. 2025-82

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49e56a1d-da9c-4f21-880a-ac6374bc3930`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).