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type: "Bill"
title: "Florida Statutes"
description: "Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 596"
citation: "Florida SB 596 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare", "vessels", "drainage", "reclamation", "and use", "industry", "business organizations", "civil practice and procedure", "electors and elections", "alcoholic beverages and tobacco", "torts", "railroads and other regulated utilities", "veterans", "military affairs and related matters", "(adopted)", "estates and trusts", "labor", "insurance", "public lands and property", "criminal procedure and corrections", "planning and development", "executive branch", "relations", "municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-2"
primary_sponsors: ["Benacquisto"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-12-12"
last_action: "2020-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69e7400d-b901-40e6-b312-227622803f49"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/596/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a15b5bfda5d5c75a281936a94e418a36e1a4bf5bab0e23b2243551f24758d0f9"
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 596 (2020) — Florida Statutes
Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-2.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 596 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/596/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 596 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/596/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **160** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Benacquisto — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-12-12** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-13** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/15/20, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-01-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/22/20
- **2020-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-22** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-01-22** Immediately certified
- **2020-01-22** In Messages
- **2020-01-23** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/20
- **2020-01-23** Received
- **2020-01-29** Substituted for HB 7031
- **2020-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-29** Passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-05** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-02-10** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-02-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-13** Chapter No. 2020-2
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69e7400d-b901-40e6-b312-227622803f49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).