republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2020/sb-1794.md

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Bill	Constitutional Amendments	Constitutional Amendments; Increasing the signature threshold at which the Secretary of State must transmit initiative petitions to the Attorney General for review; providing that a citizen may challenge in circuit court a petition circulator’s registration with the Secretary of State; authorizing the Division of Elections or a supervisor of elections to provide petition forms in a certain electronic format; requiring that ballots containing constitutional amendments proposed by initiative include certain disclosures and statements, in a specified order, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 1794	Florida SB 1794 (2020)	bill	electors and elections executive branch	enacted	2020-15	Hutson	6	38	5	2020-01-10	2020-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/b0686dad-607c-4688-a768-cdcc38d80854	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1794/ByCategory	260321b15c8c5ebc1f941191d560cc8c4a3d354bd123bbaaf69ffcda265dfb5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1794 (2020) — Constitutional Amendments

Constitutional Amendments; Increasing the signature threshold at which the Secretary of State must transmit initiative petitions to the Attorney General for review; providing that a citizen may challenge in circuit court a petition circulator’s registration with the Secretary of State; authorizing the Division of Elections or a supervisor of elections to provide petition forms in a certain electronic format; requiring that ballots containing constitutional amendments proposed by initiative include certain disclosures and statements, in a specified order, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-15.

Version chain

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

1. S 1794 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1794 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1794 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 1794 c3 (committee substitute) — source
5. S 1794 e1 (engrossed) — source
6. S 1794 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 23–17 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 10–7 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 73–45 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 4–3 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 4–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hutson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-10 Filed filing
• 2020-01-17 Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 01/27/20, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2020-01-22 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-27 CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 4 NAYS 3
• 2020-01-29 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-01-29 CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time
• 2020-01-30 Now in Judiciary
• 2020-02-06 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/11/20, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-02-11 CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 4 NAYS 2
• 2020-02-13 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-02-13 Now in Rules
• 2020-02-13 CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
• 2020-02-14 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/19/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
• 2020-02-21 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-02-26 CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 10 NAYS 7
• 2020-02-27 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2020-03-02 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-03-02 CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2020-03-04 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
• 2020-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-06 Amendment(s) adopted (440834)
• 2020-03-06 Ordered engrossed
• 2020-03-06 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-09 CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17 passage
• 2020-03-09 In Messages
• 2020-03-09 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-03-09 Received
• 2020-03-10 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
• 2020-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-10 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-11 CS passed; YEAS 73 NAYS 45 passage
• 2020-03-11 Ordered enrolled
• 2020-04-08 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-04-08 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-04-09 Chapter No. 2020-15

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0686dad-607c-4688-a768-cdcc38d80854. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).