---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation Facility Designations"
description: "Transportation Facility Designations; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in specified counties and a specified municipality; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers; revising a specified interchange designation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 628"
citation: "Florida SB 628 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["transportation designations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gaetz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-11-20"
last_action: "2026-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e7481b2-a6a0-4ccf-b3b4-4332586640fb"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/628/ByCategory"
source_hash: "05413e542b75ee5cb54f51545dcec4825858afc23f6f5cf3d7063e59cb209ef0"
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 628 (2026) — Transportation Facility Designations

Transportation Facility Designations; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in specified counties and a specified municipality; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers; revising a specified interchange designation, etc.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 628 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/628/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 628 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/628/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 628 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/628/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **34–3** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **82–26** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **81–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gaetz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-20** 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`
- **2026-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 01/28/26, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-01-28** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 14 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-12** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-19** In Messages
- **2026-02-19** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-02-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/25/2026)
- **2026-02-19** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-02-25** Substituted for CS/HB 885
- **2026-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-25** Amendment 376033 adopted
- **2026-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-25** Passed as amended; YEAS 82, NAYS 26 `passage`
- **2026-02-25** In returning messages
- **2026-03-11** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (169580, 374018, 387786)
- **2026-03-11** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (376033)
- **2026-03-11** Passed as amended; YEAS 34 NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** In Messages
- **2026-03-12** Added to Senate Message List
- **2026-03-12** Amendment 494741 adopted
- **2026-03-12** Amendment 169580 Concur
- **2026-03-12** Concurred in Senate amendment 387786 as amended
- **2026-03-12** Amendment 374018 Concur
- **2026-03-12** Passed as amended; YEAS 81, NAYS 22 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** In returning messages
- **2026-03-13** Concurred in House amendment(s) to Senate amendment(s) (494741)
- **2026-03-13** Passed; YEAS 31 NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2026-03-13** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-14** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e7481b2-a6a0-4ccf-b3b4-4332586640fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).