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Bill	Emergency Reporting	Emergency Reporting; Requiring the Division of Emergency Management to create a list of reportable incidents; requiring such list to include certain events; requiring a political subdivision to report incidents contained on the list to the State Watch Office; authorizing the Division of Emergency Management to establish guidelines a political subdivision must follow to report an incident, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 538	Florida SB 538 (2020)	bill	military affairs and related matters	enacted	2020-53	Diaz	6	38	6	2019-10-16	2020-06-22	openstates	ocd-bill/06b9a2fe-5eef-43f7-ae63-af1bbd71d6d5	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/538/ByCategory	a08f8c2cfa2e407f4330290abbcd5497f7af1ee1daa4745bd40b9cd17228a6b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 538 (2020) — Emergency Reporting

Emergency Reporting; Requiring the Division of Emergency Management to create a list of reportable incidents; requiring such list to include certain events; requiring a political subdivision to report incidents contained on the list to the State Watch Office; authorizing the Division of Emergency Management to establish guidelines a political subdivision must follow to report an incident, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-53.

Version chain

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

1. S 538 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 538 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 538 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 538 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 538 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 538 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 115–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Diaz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-10-16 Filed filing
• 2019-11-01 Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Community Affairs; Rules referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-16 On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 01/21/20, 4:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-01-21 CS by Infrastructure and Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
• 2020-01-22 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-01-23 Now in Community Affairs
• 2020-01-27 CS by Infrastructure and Security read 1st time
• 2020-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/10/20, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2020-02-10 CS/CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
• 2020-02-11 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-02-12 Now in Rules
• 2020-02-12 CS/CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
• 2020-02-14 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/19/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-02-19 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-19 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-03 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/20
• 2020-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-05 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-06 Amendment(s) adopted (682306)
• 2020-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-06 In Messages
• 2020-03-09 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Received
• 2020-03-10 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
• 2020-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Amendment(s) adopted (093237) -HJ 1042, 1043
• 2020-03-10 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 115 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-11 In returning messages
• 2020-03-12 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (093237)
• 2020-03-12 CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-12 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2020-06-11 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-20 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-22 Chapter No. 2020-53

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/06b9a2fe-5eef-43f7-ae63-af1bbd71d6d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).