republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2022/sb-524.md

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Bill	Election Administration	Election Administration; Requiring the Secretary of State to notify the Attorney General if signatures required for an initiative petition are no longer valid; creating the Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Department of State; revising the frequency with which supervisors of elections must conduct a registration list maintenance program; requiring the Department of State to identify deceased registered voters using information received by specified agencies; requiring specified individuals observing the ballot duplication process to sign a specified affidavit acknowledging certain criminal penalties, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	SB 524	Florida SB 524 (2022)	bill	county organization and intergovernmental relations criminal procedure and corrections electors and elections executive branch	enacted	2022-73	Appropriations Ethics and Elections Hutson	5	48	4	2021-10-18	2022-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/5a8bcf0c-7d64-4aea-868d-72ba8285b4c0	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/524/ByCategory	b61201f8803e6f0ce3e552a1372e970ae3383c7ba218481720b5944e97b40b0a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 524 (2022) — Election Administration

Election Administration; Requiring the Secretary of State to notify the Attorney General if signatures required for an initiative petition are no longer valid; creating the Office of Election Crimes and Security within the Department of State; revising the frequency with which supervisors of elections must conduct a registration list maintenance program; requiring the Department of State to identify deceased registered voters using information received by specified agencies; requiring specified individuals observing the ballot duplication process to sign a specified affidavit acknowledging certain criminal penalties, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-73.

Version chain

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

1. S 524 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 524 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 524 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 524 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 524 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 76–41 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 12–8 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 24–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations — primary (person)
• Ethics and Elections — primary (person)
• Hutson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-10-18 Filed filing
• 2021-11-03 Referred to Ethics and Elections; Community Affairs; Rules referral-committee
• 2022-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2022-01-27 On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 02/01/22, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2022-02-01 CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 5 NAYS 3
• 2022-02-03 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-02-03 Original reference(s) removed: Community Affairs; Rules
• 2022-02-03 Remaining references corrected to Appropriations
• 2022-02-03 Now in Appropriations
• 2022-02-09 CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time
• 2022-02-21 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/24/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-02-24 CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 12 NAYS 8
• 2022-02-28 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-02-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2022-02-28 CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2022-03-01 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
• 2022-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-03 Amendment(s) failed (254940, 576742, 812472, 911450) -SJ 552, 553, 560
• 2022-03-03 Amendment(s) adopted (203418)
• 2022-03-03 Ordered engrossed
• 2022-03-03 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 CS passed as amended; YEAS 24 NAYS 14 passage
• 2022-03-04 In Messages
• 2022-03-07 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2022-03-07 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
• 2022-03-07 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
• 2022-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 877031 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 242157 temporarily postponed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 104691 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 242157 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 433581 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 241923 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 047577 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 428229 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 744331 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 555115 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 369619 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Amendment 646597 Failed
• 2022-03-08 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-08 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2022-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-09 CS passed; YEAS 76, NAYS 41 passage
• 2022-03-09 Ordered enrolled
• 2022-04-25 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-04-25 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-04-26 Chapter No. 2022-73

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a8bcf0c-7d64-4aea-868d-72ba8285b4c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).