--- type: "Bill" title: "Specialty License Plates" description: "Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc." jurisdiction: "us/states/fl" legislature: "Florida Legislature" session: "2026" identifier: "SB 246" citation: "Florida SB 246 (2026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" chapter_law: "2026-30" primary_sponsors: ["Gruters"] version_count: 5 action_count: 43 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2025-10-20" last_action: "2026-04-13" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/908f980a-5f73-4170-b439-d69ee191344c" source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/ByCategory" source_hash: "771a702d851cd8d25893c17d089d842363f194d93fa5de37c07a0ff0937aba47" 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 246 (2026) — Specialty License Plates Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc. **Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-30. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **S 246 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/Filed/HTML) 2. **S 246 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/c1/HTML) 3. **S 246 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/e1/HTML) 4. **S 246 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/e2/HTML) 5. **S 246 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/er/HTML) ## Votes - Favorable — **11–3** (pass) · upper - Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–1** (pass) · upper - Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower - Favorable — **5–1** (pass) · upper - Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Fiscal Policy — primary (organization) - Gruters — primary (person) - Rodriguez — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-10-20** Filed `filing` - **2025-11-03** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee` - **2025-11-24** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 12/02/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building - **2025-12-02** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 5 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-12-02** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development - **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction` - **2026-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 01/21/26, 11:00 am, 110 Senate Building - **2026-01-21** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 11 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable` - **2026-01-22** Now in Fiscal Policy - **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building - **2026-02-12** CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 1 - **2026-02-13** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2026-02-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading - **2026-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26 - **2026-02-18** CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time - **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2026-02-19** Amendment(s) adopted (790388) - **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2026-02-19** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2026-02-19** Immediately certified - **2026-02-19** In Messages - **2026-02-26** Bill referred to House Calendar - **2026-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026) - **2026-02-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1` - **2026-03-02** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026) - **2026-03-02** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026) - **2026-03-04** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading - **2026-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026) - **2026-03-05** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 639 - **2026-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2026-03-05** Amendment 473559 adopted - **2026-03-05** Amendment 532499 adopted as amended - **2026-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar - **2026-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2026-03-05** CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage` - **2026-03-05** Amendment 695167 engrossed amendment (replaces 532499, 473559) - **2026-03-05** In returning messages - **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (695167) - **2026-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled` - **2026-04-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt` - **2026-04-10** Approved by Governor `executive-signature` - **2026-04-13** Chapter No. 2026-30 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/908f980a-5f73-4170-b439-d69ee191344c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).