republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2022/hb-7049.md

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Bill	Legal Notices	Legal Notices; Revises requirements for newspapers publishing legal notices; removes option for publication on newspaper's website; provides for publication of legal notices on publicly accessible websites; authorizes governmental agency to publish legal notices on publicly accessible website; authorizes governmental agency with certain percentage of its population located within county meeting population threshold to use publicly accessible website; requires governmental agency to provide specified notice to residents & property owners relating to alternative methods of receiving notices; provides requirement for public bid advertisements made by governmental agencies on publicly accessible websites.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	HB 7049	Florida HB 7049 (2022)	bill	civil practice and procedure county organization and intergovernmental relations crimes criminal procedure and corrections labor public officers employees and records public transportation taxation and finance	enacted	2022-103	Fine Grall	4	39	7	2022-02-02	2022-05-11	openstates	ocd-bill/9f481c2b-7d45-4745-bee3-c2e53080a965	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7049/ByCategory	c3dd641defb5ace7f3b0ceeb4c4af1274b8f4e96d4c38c214ba48c5aa4af42b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 7049 (2022) — Legal Notices

Legal Notices; Revises requirements for newspapers publishing legal notices; removes option for publication on newspaper's website; provides for publication of legal notices on publicly accessible websites; authorizes governmental agency to publish legal notices on publicly accessible website; authorizes governmental agency with certain percentage of its population located within county meeting population threshold to use publicly accessible website; requires governmental agency to provide specified notice to residents & property owners relating to alternative methods of receiving notices; provides requirement for public bid advertisements made by governmental agencies on publicly accessible websites.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-103.

Version chain

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

1. H 7049 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 7049 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 7049 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. H 7049 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 26–13 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 9–6 (pass) · upper
• Favorable With Amendment(s) (Judiciary Committee) — 14–5 (pass) · lower
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — 13–7 (pass) · lower
• A - 964618, Amendment, Second Reading — 16–20 (fail) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 78–39 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 79–40 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Fine — primary (person)
• Grall — primary (person)
• Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
• State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
• Fischer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-02 Filed filing
• 2022-02-02 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
• 2022-02-04 Referred to State Affairs Committee referral-committee
• 2022-02-04 Now in State Affairs Committee
• 2022-02-17 Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
• 2022-02-21 Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee
• 2022-02-21 Reported out of State Affairs Committee
• 2022-02-22 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
• 2022-02-22 CS Filed
• 2022-02-22 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
• 2022-02-23 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2022-02-23 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2022-02-24 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
• 2022-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-01 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2022-03-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 CS passed; YEAS 78, NAYS 39 passage
• 2022-03-02 In Messages
• 2022-03-02 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2022-03-02 Received
• 2022-03-07 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/08/22, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-03-08 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 9 NAYS 6 committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-08 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2022-03-08 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/22
• 2022-03-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-09 Amendment(s) failed (378446, 844640, 941896, 964618) -SJ 759, 760
• 2022-03-09 Amendment(s) adopted (388396)
• 2022-03-09 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 26 NAYS 13 passage
• 2022-03-10 In Messages
• 2022-03-10 Added to Senate Message List
• 2022-03-10 Amendment 388396 Concur
• 2022-03-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 79, NAYS 40 passage
• 2022-03-10 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2022-05-10 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-05-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-05-11 Chapter No. 2022-103

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f481c2b-7d45-4745-bee3-c2e53080a965. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).