---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virtual Currency Kiosks"
description: "Virtual Currency Kiosks; Revising the requirements for certain rules adopted by the Financial Services Commission; revising the actions by money services businesses, authorized vendors, or affiliated parties which constitute grounds for disciplinary action; prohibiting persons from engaging in certain business unless they are registered or exempt from registration; prohibiting a virtual currency kiosk business from operating in this state without registering or renewing its registration; requiring the Office of Financial Regulation to give a specified notice to applicants; specifying that certain money transmitters are exempt from registration as a virtual currency kiosk business but are subject to certain provisions; requiring applicants to submit certain information to the office to be registered as a virtual currency kiosk business; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to ensure that its virtual currency kiosk requires certain attestations from the customer and displays a certain disclosure; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to provide a customer with a specified physical or electronic receipt upon completion of a virtual currency transaction; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to issue a full refund under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 505"
citation: "Florida HB 505 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-178"
primary_sponsors: ["Daley", "Owen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-11-20"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a34bd1b-74cb-4eae-9064-5ed2e841f54f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/505/ByCategory"
source_hash: "97dea889a862aa1905e2951e0e60fb5ef3c68491ea712a1d0f3d1a8a8c403276"
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 505 (2026) — Virtual Currency Kiosks

Virtual Currency Kiosks; Revising the requirements for certain rules adopted by the Financial Services Commission; revising the actions by money services businesses, authorized vendors, or affiliated parties which constitute grounds for disciplinary action; prohibiting persons from engaging in certain business unless they are registered or exempt from registration; prohibiting a virtual currency kiosk business from operating in this state without registering or renewing its registration; requiring the Office of Financial Regulation to give a specified notice to applicants; specifying that certain money transmitters are exempt from registration as a virtual currency kiosk business but are subject to certain provisions; requiring applicants to submit certain information to the office to be registered as a virtual currency kiosk business; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to ensure that its virtual currency kiosk requires certain attestations from the customer and displays a certain disclosure; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to provide a customer with a specified physical or electronic receipt upon completion of a virtual currency transaction; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to issue a full refund under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-178.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 505 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/505/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 505 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/505/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 505 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/505/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 505 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/505/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **24–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **107–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Daley — primary (person)
- Owen — primary (person)
- Alvarez, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Tendrich — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-11-24** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-24** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-24** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2025-12-02** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-12-09** Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-12-09** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2025-12-09** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-01-23** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2026-01-27** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2026-01-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2026-01-28** CS Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-02-02** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-02-02** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/17/2026)
- **2026-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** CS passed; YEAS 108, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-17** In Messages
- **2026-02-18** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18** Received `enrolled`
- **2026-02-25** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-25** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 198
- **2026-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-25** Amendment(s) adopted (518110)
- **2026-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-25** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-25** In Messages
- **2026-03-12** Added to Senate Message List
- **2026-03-12** Amendment 518110 Concur
- **2026-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 107, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter No. 2026-178

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a34bd1b-74cb-4eae-9064-5ed2e841f54f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).