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| Bill | Specialty License Plates | Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2026 | SB 246 | Florida SB 246 (2026) |
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enacted | 2026-30 |
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5 | 43 | 6 | 2025-10-20 | 2026-04-13 | openstates | ocd-bill/908f980a-5f73-4170-b439-d69ee191344c | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/ByCategory | 771a702d851cd8d25893c17d089d842363f194d93fa5de37c07a0ff0937aba47 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida SB 246 (2026) — Specialty License Plates
Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-30.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- S 246 Filed (filed) — source
- S 246 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- S 246 e1 (engrossed) — source
- S 246 e2 (engrossed) — source
- S 246 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Favorable — 11–3 (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — 18–1 (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — 109–0 (pass) · lower
- Favorable — 5–1 (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
- Gruters — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-10-20 Filed
filing - 2025-11-03 Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy
referral-committee - 2025-11-24 On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 12/02/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- 2025-12-02 Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 5 NAYS 1
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-12-02 Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- 2026-01-13 Introduced
introduction - 2026-01-16 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 01/21/26, 11:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- 2026-01-21 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 11 NAYS 3
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-01-22 Now in Fiscal Policy
- 2026-02-09 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- 2026-02-12 CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 1
- 2026-02-13 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- 2026-02-16 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2026-02-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- 2026-02-18 CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- 2026-02-19 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-02-19 Amendment(s) adopted (790388)
- 2026-02-19 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-02-19 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
passage - 2026-02-19 Immediately certified
- 2026-02-19 In Messages
- 2026-02-26 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2026-02-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026)
- 2026-02-26 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
reading-1 - 2026-03-02 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
- 2026-03-02 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026)
- 2026-03-04 Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- 2026-03-04 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
- 2026-03-05 Substituted for CS/CS/HB 639
- 2026-03-05 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-03-05 Amendment 473559 adopted
- 2026-03-05 Amendment 532499 adopted as amended
- 2026-03-05 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2026-03-05 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-03-05 CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0
passage - 2026-03-05 Amendment 695167 engrossed amendment (replaces 532499, 473559)
- 2026-03-05 In returning messages
- 2026-03-11 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (695167)
- 2026-03-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
passage - 2026-03-11 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
enrolled - 2026-04-09 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-04-10 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2026-04-13 Chapter No. 2026-30
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/908f980a-5f73-4170-b439-d69ee191344c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).