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Bill	Religious Institutions	Religious Institutions; Defining the term “religious institution”; providing that an emergency order may not directly or indirectly prohibit religious services or activities; providing an exception under certain circumstances, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	SB 254	Florida SB 254 (2022)	bill	military affairs and related matters	enacted	2022-208	Brodeur Rules	3	30	4	2021-09-17	2022-06-27	openstates	ocd-bill/e2804ef9-ad92-4c51-a75d-8e4b3843807a	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/254/ByCategory	ed5cad6dd3be830aea118926d4895fcb5e04c1d96655c75881d05077d8381a36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 254 (2022) — Religious Institutions

Religious Institutions; Defining the term “religious institution”; providing that an emergency order may not directly or indirectly prohibit religious services or activities; providing an exception under certain circumstances, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-208.

Version chain

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

1. S 254 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 254 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 254 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 14–2 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 31–3 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 88–29 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brodeur — primary (person)
• Rules — primary (person)
• Perry — cosponsor (person)
• Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-09-17 Filed filing
• 2021-10-13 Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Rules referral-committee
• 2021-11-22 On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 11/30/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2021-11-30 Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-12-01 Now in Rules
• 2022-01-10 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/13/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2022-01-13 CS by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 2
• 2022-01-13 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-01-14 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2022-01-18 CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2022-01-24 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/27/22
• 2022-01-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-01-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-01-27 CS passed; YEAS 31 NAYS 3 passage
• 2022-01-27 Immediately certified
• 2022-01-27 In Messages
• 2022-02-24 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2022-02-24 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
• 2022-02-24 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
• 2022-03-01 Substituted for CS/HB 215
• 2022-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-01 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2022-03-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 CS passed; YEAS 88, NAYS 29 passage
• 2022-03-02 Ordered enrolled
• 2022-06-17 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-06-24 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-06-27 Chapter No. 2022-208

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2804ef9-ad92-4c51-a75d-8e4b3843807a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).