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| Bill | Social Media Platforms | Social Media Platforms; Prohibiting a social media platform from willfully deplatforming a candidate; providing requirements for public contracts and economic incentives related to entities that have been convicted or held civilly liable for antitrust violations; providing that social media platforms that fail to comply with specified requirements and prohibitions commit an unfair or deceptive act or practice; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to investigate suspected violations under the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and bring specified actions for such violations, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2021 | SB 7072 | Florida SB 7072 (2021) |
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enacted | 2021-32 |
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4 | 40 | 6 | 2021-04-01 | 2021-05-25 | openstates | ocd-bill/e6ede4a3-a54c-4dfc-8e50-f87fefa3a551 | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7072/ByCategory | 424ad7b010d5be2c0c5a426d54ffc677e6d2a7d710bc16f7a2ba03cc60d9335c | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida SB 7072 (2021) — Social Media Platforms
Social Media Platforms; Prohibiting a social media platform from willfully deplatforming a candidate; providing requirements for public contracts and economic incentives related to entities that have been convicted or held civilly liable for antitrust violations; providing that social media platforms that fail to comply with specified requirements and prohibitions commit an unfair or deceptive act or practice; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to investigate suspected violations under the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and bring specified actions for such violations, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-32.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- S 7072 Filed (filed) — source
- S 7072 pb (committee substitute) — source
- S 7072 e1 (engrossed) — source
- S 7072 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Returning Messages — 23–17 (pass) · upper
- Favorable — 10–9 (pass) · upper
- Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — 3–2 (pass) · upper
- Passage — 77–38 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 78–41 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 22–17 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-04-01 Submitted for consideration by Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- 2021-04-01 On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 04/06/21, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- 2021-04-06 Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 3 NAYS 2
- 2021-04-07 Filed
filing - 2021-04-08 Referred to Appropriations
referral-committee - 2021-04-08 Introduced
introduction - 2021-04-14 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- 2021-04-19 Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 10 NAYS 9
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-04-20 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2021-04-20 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- 2021-04-22 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-22 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2021-04-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-26 Passed; YEAS 22 NAYS 17
passage - 2021-04-26 In Messages
- 2021-04-26 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2021-04-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- 2021-04-26 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- 2021-04-26 Amendment 942955 filed
- 2021-04-27 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-27 Amendment 942955 adopted
- 2021-04-27 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2021-04-27 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2021-04-28 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-28 Passed as amended; YEAS 78, NAYS 41
passage - 2021-04-28 In returning messages
- 2021-04-28 Message sent to senate
- 2021-04-29 Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (811008)
- 2021-04-29 Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (942955)
- 2021-04-29 Passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17
passage - 2021-04-29 In Messages
- 2021-04-29 Added to Senate Message List
- 2021-04-29 Amendment 811008 Concur
- 2021-04-29 Concurred in Senate amendment(s) to House amendment(s)
- 2021-04-29 Passed as amended; YEAS 77, NAYS 38
passage - 2021-04-29 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- 2021-04-29 Message sent to senate
- 2021-05-20 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2021-05-24 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2021-05-25 Chapter No. 2021-32, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 7074 (Ch. 2021-33)
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e6ede4a3-a54c-4dfc-8e50-f87fefa3a551. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).