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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services"
description: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 740"
citation: "Florida SB 740 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["agriculture", "fuel", "and other pollutant taxes", "recovery agents and repossession services", "investigators and investigative services (private)", "driver licenses", "advertising", "dixie county", "telephones", "webster", "city of", "forestry", "foods", "bradford county", "alarms", "agents and repossession services", "protection", "telemarketing", "security services (private)", "weapons and firearms", "tax collectors", "officers", "security officers and security services (private)", "amusement games or machines", "financial institutions", "motels", "studies", "solicitation", "fuel", "special fuel", "and other pollutant taxes", "apalachicola", "city of", "taxation", "fishing (saltwater)", "apopka", "city of", "pest control", "pollutant taxes", "seeds"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2018-84"
primary_sponsors: ["Stargel"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-11-02"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b541817b-a0a2-4370-9741-3dd04205bb9a"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/00740/ByCategory"
source_hash: "23523a602067a8a48e58640497ef1fdbf2360edd0c8ea0dbc919eeefc7edfd2d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida SB 740 (2018) — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2018-84.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 740 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/740/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 740 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/740/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 740 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/740/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 740 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/740/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 740 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/740/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1160** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **340** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **70** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **200** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **60** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Stargel — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-11-02** Filed `filing`
- **2017-11-15** Referred to Agriculture; Appropriations Subcommittee on the Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 01/11/18, 9:00 am, 301 Senate Office Building
- **2018-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-01-11** CS by Agriculture; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2018-01-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-01-11** CS by Agriculture read 1st time
- **2018-01-16** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on the Environment and Natural Resources
- **2018-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on the Environment and Natural Resources, 01/24/18, 9:00 am, 301 Senate Office Building
- **2018-01-24** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on the Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2018-01-25** Now in Appropriations
- **2018-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/15/18, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2018-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/22/18, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2018-02-22** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2018-02-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-02-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2018-02-26** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2018-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/18
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Amendment(s) adopted (317386, 455400) -SJ 423, 424
- **2018-03-01** Ordered engrossed
- **2018-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-02** In Messages
- **2018-03-05** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/18
- **2018-03-05** Received
- **2018-03-06** Read 2nd time -HJ 1004, 1005 `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 553
- **2018-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time -HJ 1040, 1041 `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-07** Ordered enrolled
- **2018-03-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2018-03-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-26** Chapter No. 2018-84, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 568 (Ch. 2018-23)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b541817b-a0a2-4370-9741-3dd04205bb9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).