---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Driving Schools"
description: "Commercial Driving Schools; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to enter into interagency agreements with tax collectors for a specified purpose; specifying that such an interagency agreement is a delegation of authority of the department to the tax collector; providing that such an interagency agreement may include, but need not be limited to, certain grants of authority, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 584"
citation: "Florida SB 584 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-94"
primary_sponsors: ["Avila"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-11-19"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/596bbd54-fec7-4483-9b91-b66ea15ef264"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/584/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d4baf45cf18ae350eb2b24bddae8c2da335187a7c475e4df980c54b3b2ee64e1"
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 584 (2026) — Commercial Driving Schools

Commercial Driving Schools; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to enter into interagency agreements with tax collectors for a specified purpose; specifying that such an interagency agreement is a delegation of authority of the department to the tax collector; providing that such an interagency agreement may include, but need not be limited to, certain grants of authority, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-94.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 584 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/584/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 584 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/584/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **109–3** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Avila — primary (person)
- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-09** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 01/12/26, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-12** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-12** 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 14 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-21** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-02** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/05/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-05** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/11/26
- **2026-02-11** Retained on Special Order Calendar
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-19** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-10** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-10** Passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-26** Chapter No. 2026-94

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/596bbd54-fec7-4483-9b91-b66ea15ef264`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).