---
type: "Bill"
title: "Florida State University Election Law Center"
description: "Florida State University Election Law Center; Creating the center within the Florida State University College of Law; defining the term “election law”; authorizing the center to provide assistance to the Legislature and other governmental entities; providing mechanisms for the funding of the center, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 892"
citation: "Florida SB 892 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-210"
primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ace2d921-72ef-4172-b7f6-6f2667cc63a1"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/892/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2be1b894bca44ef5714a2a948a873e4be295774fd38ff053fde84d8d17fe2a16"
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 892 (2025) — Florida State University Election Law Center

Florida State University Election Law Center; Creating the center within the Florida State University College of Law; defining the term “election law”; authorizing the center to provide assistance to the Legislature and other governmental entities; providing mechanisms for the funding of the center, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-210.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 892 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/892/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 892 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/892/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Education Postsecondary; Appropriations Committee on Higher Education; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Education Postsecondary, 03/17/25, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-17** Favorable by Education Postsecondary; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Now in Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
- **2025-04-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Higher Education, 04/15/25, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-15** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Higher Education; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-04-17** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-22** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/25
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-02** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-03** Chapter No. 2025-210

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ace2d921-72ef-4172-b7f6-6f2667cc63a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).