---
type: "Bill"
title: "Background Screening of Athletic Coaches"
description: "Background Screening of Athletic Coaches; Revising the date upon which certain background screenings of athletic coaches must be conducted, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1546"
citation: "Florida SB 1546 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-97"
primary_sponsors: ["Grall"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d85af5e-03de-4bbf-bede-05efb7ca8923"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1546/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3e14a8b795e28f2251b7816920980befe2962ca22287ef5d4fc2c8d13c09f754"
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 1546 (2025) — Background Screening of Athletic Coaches

Background Screening of Athletic Coaches; Revising the date upon which certain background screenings of athletic coaches must be conducted, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-97.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1546 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1546/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1546 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1546/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1546 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1546/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1546 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1546/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1546 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1546/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criminal Justice — primary (organization)
- Grall — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-06** Referred to Health Policy; Criminal Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-18** Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Now in Criminal Justice
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 04/01/25, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-04-01** CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-03** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-03** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-03** CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time
- **2025-04-08** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-09** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-09** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/16/25
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment 746405 adopted
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In returning messages
- **2025-05-01** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (746405)
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** 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. 2025-97

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d85af5e-03de-4bbf-bede-05efb7ca8923`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).