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type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Dealers, Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors"
description: "Motor Vehicle Dealers, Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors; Provides leglislative intent; prohibits applicant or licensee from certain actions in allocation or distribution of motor vehicles to franchised motor vehicle dealers; authorizes sale or activation of features or improvements through remote electronic transmission; provides revenue-sharing requirements; revises provisions prohibiting owning, operating, or controlling motor vehicle dealership; requires DHSMV to conduct inquiry of licensee alleged to have violated certain provisions; requires DHSMV to take certain actions against licensee determined to have violated such provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 637"
citation: "Florida HB 637 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)", "commercial relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-233"
primary_sponsors: ["Shoaf"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 45
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f695c38-4374-47dd-a324-168144a679f7"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/637/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b8d74afb804ecab2b49186e6711e5a706692e9b6241bd58776398edb355312e3"
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 HB 637 (2023) — Motor Vehicle Dealers, Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors
Motor Vehicle Dealers, Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors; Provides leglislative intent; prohibits applicant or licensee from certain actions in allocation or distribution of motor vehicles to franchised motor vehicle dealers; authorizes sale or activation of features or improvements through remote electronic transmission; provides revenue-sharing requirements; revises provisions prohibiting owning, operating, or controlling motor vehicle dealership; requires DHSMV to conduct inquiry of licensee alleged to have violated certain provisions; requires DHSMV to take certain actions against licensee determined to have violated such provisions.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-233.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 637 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/637/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 637 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/637/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 637 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/637/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 637 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/637/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Civil Justice Subcommittee) — **150** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **161** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee) — **120** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1132** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Civil Justice Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Shoaf — primary (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Maney — cosponsor (person)
- Massullo — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-07** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-14** Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2023-02-16** Added to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-02-23** Favorable by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23** Reported out of Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2023-02-23** Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-23** Added to Civil Justice Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-27** Favorable with CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Reported out of Civil Justice Subcommittee
- **2023-03-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-28** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2023-04-13** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2023-04-18** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2023-04-20** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-20** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-02** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-02** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 712
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** In Messages
- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-233
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f695c38-4374-47dd-a324-168144a679f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).