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| Bill | Business Organizations | Business Organizations; Specifying that certain documents accepted by the Department of State for filing are effective on the date the documents are accepted by the department; revising the required contents of a meeting notice relating to the removal of a director by shareholders; authorizing a domestic corporation to acquire one or more classes or series of shares under certain circumstances; authorizing the department to direct certain interrogatories to certain corporations and to officers or directors of certain corporations, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2020 | SB 838 | Florida SB 838 (2020) |
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enacted | 2020-32 |
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3 | 38 | 6 | 2019-11-07 | 2020-06-19 | openstates | ocd-bill/3b3e461e-2a71-402f-bf07-cb4a46232899 | http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/838/ByCategory | 7054a741ff6249ae6cd16c8ff5d0ed58e716f04130fcc635522b4277c03a695a | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida SB 838 (2020) — Business Organizations
Business Organizations; Specifying that certain documents accepted by the Department of State for filing are effective on the date the documents are accepted by the department; revising the required contents of a meeting notice relating to the removal of a director by shareholders; authorizing a domestic corporation to acquire one or more classes or series of shares under certain circumstances; authorizing the department to direct certain interrogatories to certain corporations and to officers or directors of certain corporations, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-32.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Favorable — 16–0 (pass) · upper
- Passage — 109–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Simmons — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-11-07 Filed
filing - 2019-11-21 Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules
referral-committee - 2020-01-09 On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/14/20, 2:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- 2020-01-14 Introduced
introduction - 2020-01-14 CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- 2020-01-15 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- 2020-01-16 Now in Judiciary
- 2020-01-22 CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
- 2020-01-23 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/28/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- 2020-01-28 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
committee-passage-favorable - 2020-01-29 Now in Rules
- 2020-01-31 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/05/20, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- 2020-02-05 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
committee-passage-favorable - 2020-02-05 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2020-02-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
- 2020-02-19 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2020-02-19 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2020-02-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2020-02-26 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0
passage - 2020-03-03 In Messages
- 2020-03-06 Referred to Calendar
referral-committee - 2020-03-06 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- 2020-03-06 Received
- 2020-03-09 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2020-03-09 Amendment(s) adopted (145281, 556959)
- 2020-03-09 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2020-03-10 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2020-03-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 114 NAYS 0
passage - 2020-03-10 In returning messages
- 2020-03-12 Refused to concur in 2 amendment(s) (145281, 556959)
- 2020-03-12 Requested House to recede
- 2020-03-12 In returning messages
- 2020-03-13 Receded from 2 amendment(s) (145281, 556959)
- 2020-03-13 CS passed; YEAS 109 NAYS 0
passage - 2020-03-13 Ordered enrolled
- 2020-06-03 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2020-06-18 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2020-06-19 Chapter No. 2020-32
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b3e461e-2a71-402f-bf07-cb4a46232899. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).