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Bill Evidentiary Standards for Actions Arising During an Emergency Evidentiary Standards for Actions Arising During an Emergency; Providing that specified actions taken by a business during certain declared emergencies may not be used as evidence in certain civil causes of action, etc. us/states/fl Florida Legislature 2022 SB 542 Florida SB 542 (2022)
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Florida SB 542 (2022) — Evidentiary Standards for Actions Arising During an Emergency

Evidentiary Standards for Actions Arising During an Emergency; Providing that specified actions taken by a business during certain declared emergencies may not be used as evidence in certain civil causes of action, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-99.

Version chain

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

  1. S 542 Filed (filed) — source
  2. S 542 e1 (engrossed) — source
  3. S 542 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Returning Messages — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Passage, Third Reading — 1152 (pass) · lower
  • Favorable — 150 (pass) · upper
  • Favorable — 100 (pass) · upper
  • Favorable — 90 (pass) · upper
  • Third Reading — 351 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-10-18 Filed filing
  • 2021-11-03 Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules referral-committee
  • 2021-11-22 On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 11/30/21, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
  • 2021-11-30 Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-11-30 Now in Judiciary
  • 2022-01-03 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/10/22, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
  • 2022-01-10 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-01-11 Now in Rules
  • 2022-01-11 Introduced introduction
  • 2022-01-14 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/20/22, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
  • 2022-01-20 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2022-01-20 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  • 2022-01-24 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/27/22
  • 2022-01-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2022-01-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2022-01-27 Passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 1 passage
  • 2022-01-27 Immediately certified
  • 2022-01-27 In Messages
  • 2022-02-17 Bill referred to House Calendar
  • 2022-02-17 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/22/2022)
  • 2022-02-17 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  • 2022-02-22 Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
  • 2022-02-22 Added to Second Reading Calendar
  • 2022-02-24 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
  • 2022-03-01 Substituted for HB 411
  • 2022-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2022-03-01 Amendment 782315 adopted
  • 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 Passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 2 passage
  • 2022-03-02 In returning messages
  • 2022-03-08 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (782315)
  • 2022-03-08 Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
  • 2022-03-08 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
  • 2022-05-05 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
  • 2022-05-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
  • 2022-05-11 Chapter No. 2022-99

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62f6bcf9-d441-4525-9ef7-1b8279ca6175. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).