---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legal Tender"
description: "Legal Tender; Revising the sales and use tax exemption for certain coin or currency; specifying that a person who claims the sales tax exemption bears the burden for determining whether the gold coin or silver coin meets a specified definition; providing a presumption regarding the purity requirements of gold coin and silver coin, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 999"
citation: "Florida HB 999 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["commercial relations", "estates and trusts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-100"
primary_sponsors: ["Bankson", "LaMarca"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5358ac3d-6079-45e1-bb23-3e44a04d69ad"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/999/ByCategory"
source_hash: "30f7037efc1a1e661d44d13bad790ba294e5b8d07ca252fce1644505847b8594"
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 999 (2025) — Legal Tender

Legal Tender; Revising the sales and use tax exemption for certain coin or currency; specifying that a person who claims the sales tax exemption bears the burden for determining whether the gold coin or silver coin meets a specified definition; providing a presumption regarding the purity requirements of gold coin and silver coin, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-100.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 999 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/999/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 999 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/999/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 999 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/999/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 999 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/999/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bankson — primary (person)
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- LaMarca — primary (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Botana — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlin — cosponsor (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Ways & Means Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-02** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-20** Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2025-03-21** Now in Ways & Means Committee
- **2025-03-31** Added to Ways & Means Committee agenda
- **2025-04-02** Favorable by Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Reported out of Ways & Means Committee
- **2025-04-02** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2025-04-11** PCS added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2025-04-15** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2025-04-17** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-17** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-17** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
- **2025-04-17** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** In Messages
- **2025-04-23** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-29** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-29** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 132
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment(s) adopted (253202)
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In Messages
- **2025-04-30** Senate Message List
- **2025-04-30** Amendment 253202 Concur
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-28** Chapter No. 2025-100

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5358ac3d-6079-45e1-bb23-3e44a04d69ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).