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type: "Bill"
title: "Fire Investigators"
description: "Fire Investigators; Revising the definition of the term “firefighter” to include full-time, Florida-certified fire investigators for the purpose of expanding eligibility for certain cancer treatment benefits to such investigators; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 838"
citation: "Florida SB 838 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public officers", "employees", "and records"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-131"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Wright"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-11-04"
last_action: "2022-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64808ed5-86d2-4c9d-8b95-de76e71d2ada"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/838/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ba3e3330a918dc7caff0e58b9850c3629bd0c5c35dea0cbf301f573434d3b71f"
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 838 (2022) — Fire Investigators
Fire Investigators; Revising the definition of the term “firefighter” to include full-time, Florida-certified fire investigators for the purpose of expanding eligibility for certain cancer treatment benefits to such investigators; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-131.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 838 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/838/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 838 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/838/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 838 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/838/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **180** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **70** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **110** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Wright — primary (person)
- Hooper — cosponsor (person)
- Polsky — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-11-04** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-16** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Community Affairs; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-22** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 12/01/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-12-01** Favorable by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-12-01** Now in Community Affairs
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/18/22, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-18** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-19** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/27/22, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-01-27** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-31** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-01-31** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/03/22
- **2022-02-02** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-03** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-03** In Messages
- **2022-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-02-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/HB 557
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-20** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-23** Chapter No. 2022-131
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64808ed5-86d2-4c9d-8b95-de76e71d2ada`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).