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Bill	Ethics	Ethics; Increasing the maximum fine for violations of specified lobbying provisions; authorizing attorneys who file full and public disclosures of their financial interests to indicate that a client meets disclosure criteria without providing further information relating to such client; prohibiting a member of the Commission on Ethics from serving more than two full terms, instead of two full terms in succession; providing that a complainant is liable for costs plus reasonable attorney fees for filing a complaint with malicious intent against a candidate for public office; requiring that allegations in written complaints submitted to the commission be based upon personal knowledge or information other than hearsay, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 7014	Florida SB 7014 (2024)	bill		enacted	2024-253	Ethics and Elections Rules	6	43	6	2023-12-04	2024-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/09acfded-0cb6-474f-8fec-46cf6877ad3e	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7014/ByCategory	7ac25d32d4246295379ee6a18477cf9279549a4f07c80a13d1401596d8be2a99	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 7014 (2024) — Ethics

Ethics; Increasing the maximum fine for violations of specified lobbying provisions; authorizing attorneys who file full and public disclosures of their financial interests to indicate that a client meets disclosure criteria without providing further information relating to such client; prohibiting a member of the Commission on Ethics from serving more than two full terms, instead of two full terms in succession; providing that a complainant is liable for costs plus reasonable attorney fees for filing a complaint with malicious intent against a candidate for public office; requiring that allegations in written complaints submitted to the commission be based upon personal knowledge or information other than hearsay, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-253.

Version chain

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

1. S 7014 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 7014 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 7014 pb (committee substitute) — source
4. S 7014 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 7014 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 7014 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 26–4 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 81–33 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 79–34 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ethics and Elections — primary (person)
• Rules — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-04 Submitted for consideration by Ethics and Elections
• 2023-12-04 On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 12/13/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2023-12-13 Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 7 NAYS 1
• 2023-12-13 Filed filing
• 2023-12-14 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-05 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/10/24, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-10 CS by- Rules; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-12 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-12 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-01-17 CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2024-01-30 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/01/24
• 2024-02-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Amendment(s) adopted (170806, 317468, 562898, 932020)
• 2024-02-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-01 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-01 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-01 In Messages
• 2024-03-04 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-04 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
• 2024-03-04 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 598259 Failed
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 071005 Failed
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 456135 Failed
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 126105 adopted
• 2024-03-05 Amendment 444599 Failed
• 2024-03-05 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 81, NAYS 33 passage
• 2024-03-06 In returning messages
• 2024-03-06 Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (844484)
• 2024-03-06 Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (126105)
• 2024-03-06 CS passed as amended; YEAS 26 NAYS 4 passage
• 2024-03-06 In Messages
• 2024-03-07 Added to Senate Message List
• 2024-03-07 Concurred in 844484 amendment(s)
• 2024-03-07 CS passed as amended; YEAS 79, NAYS 34 passage
• 2024-03-07 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2024-06-17 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-21 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-06-24 Chapter No. 2024-253

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/09acfded-0cb6-474f-8fec-46cf6877ad3e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).