---
type: "Bill"
title: "Third-party Reservation Platforms"
description: "Third-party Reservation Platforms; Citing this act as the “Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act”; specifying that a third-party reservation platform does not include certain contractual designees; prohibiting a third-party reservation platform from listing, advertising, promoting, selling, or otherwise enabling a reservation at a public food service establishment; authorizing the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to impose a civil penalty not to exceed a specified amount for a violation of the act or of a division rule, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 940"
citation: "Florida SB 940 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-55"
primary_sponsors: ["McClain"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfc7fe2d-8ca8-4ff4-98ab-0519d7f2449e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/940/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6fd3809e79327bc05503a824bdfb09ea1c7c2b4636a944af086854ea48133ec1"
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 940 (2025) — Third-party Reservation Platforms

Third-party Reservation Platforms; Citing this act as the “Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act”; specifying that a third-party reservation platform does not include certain contractual designees; prohibiting a third-party reservation platform from listing, advertising, promoting, selling, or otherwise enabling a reservation at a public food service establishment; authorizing the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to impose a civil penalty not to exceed a specified amount for a violation of the act or of a division rule, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-55.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 940 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/940/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 940 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/940/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 940 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/940/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McClain — primary (person)
- Regulated Industries — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Regulated Industries; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-14** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-19** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-21** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-21** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2025-03-26** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2025-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/31/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-31** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** 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 37 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 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **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; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** Chapter No. 2025-55

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfc7fe2d-8ca8-4ff4-98ab-0519d7f2449e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).