republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/sb-596.md

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Bill	Florida Statutes	Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 596	Florida SB 596 (2020)	bill	social welfare vessels drainage reclamation and use industry business organizations civil practice and procedure electors and elections alcoholic beverages and tobacco torts railroads and other regulated utilities veterans military affairs and related matters (adopted) estates and trusts labor insurance public lands and property criminal procedure and corrections planning and development executive branch relations municipalities	enacted	2020-2	Benacquisto	2	23	3	2019-12-12	2020-02-13	openstates	ocd-bill/69e7400d-b901-40e6-b312-227622803f49	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/596/ByCategory	a15b5bfda5d5c75a281936a94e418a36e1a4bf5bab0e23b2243551f24758d0f9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 596 (2020) — Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-2.

Version chain

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

1. S 596 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 596 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 117–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Benacquisto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-12 Filed filing
• 2019-12-13 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2020-01-10 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/15/20, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-15 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-15 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-01-16 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/22/20
• 2020-01-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-01-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-01-22 Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-01-22 Immediately certified
• 2020-01-22 In Messages
• 2020-01-23 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
• 2020-01-23 Received
• 2020-01-29 Substituted for HB 7031
• 2020-01-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-01-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-01-29 Passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-02-05 Ordered enrolled
• 2020-02-10 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-02-12 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-02-13 Chapter No. 2020-2

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/69e7400d-b901-40e6-b312-227622803f49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).