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Bill	Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees	Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees; Requiring a public employee who desires to be a member of an employee organization to sign a membership authorization form beginning on a specified date; requiring an employee organization to revoke a public employee’s membership upon receipt of his or her written request for revocation; prohibiting certain employee organizations from having dues and uniform assessments deducted and collected by the employer from certain salaries; revising requirements for applications for initial registrations and renewals of registration of employee organizations; revising prohibitions for employee organizations and certain persons and entities relating to employee organizations, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2023	SB 256	Florida SB 256 (2023)	bill	labor	enacted	2023-35	Fiscal Policy Governmental Oversight and Accountability Ingoglia	6	40	6	2023-02-28	2023-05-10	openstates	ocd-bill/4fec6c1b-4dab-45b0-a079-9177b75590c7	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/ByCategory	ce8d3d9c087aa79cdb9ac9259ead569b890f233cc1f259ca076b7fd2ea6f53bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 256 (2023) — Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees

Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees; Requiring a public employee who desires to be a member of an employee organization to sign a membership authorization form beginning on a specified date; requiring an employee organization to revoke a public employee’s membership upon receipt of his or her written request for revocation; prohibiting certain employee organizations from having dues and uniform assessments deducted and collected by the employer from certain salaries; revising requirements for applications for initial registrations and renewals of registration of employee organizations; revising prohibitions for employee organizations and certain persons and entities relating to employee organizations, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-35.

Version chain

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

1. S 256 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 256 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 256 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 256 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 256 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 256 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 23–17 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 13–7 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 72–44 (pass) · lower
• A - 692892, Amendment, Second Reading — 12–26 (fail) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• A - 488749, Adoption, Second Reading — 33–80 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
• Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (person)
• Ingoglia — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-28 Filed filing
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2023-03-02 On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/07/23, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2023-03-07 Introduced introduction
• 2023-03-07 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 3
• 2023-03-09 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2023-03-09 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2023-03-13 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/16/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2023-03-14 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
• 2023-03-16 CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 13 NAYS 7
• 2023-03-17 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2023-03-17 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2023-03-20 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/23/23
• 2023-03-21 CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
• 2023-03-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-03-23 Amendment(s) adopted (297578)
• 2023-03-23 Amendment(s) failed (586438, 692892, 817316)
• 2023-03-23 Ordered engrossed
• 2023-03-23 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2023-03-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-03-29 Amendment(s) failed (436266)
• 2023-03-29 Amendment(s) adopted (690590)
• 2023-03-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17 passage
• 2023-03-31 In Messages
• 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 (Engrossed 2) reading-1
• 2023-04-25 Substituted for CS/HB 1445
• 2023-04-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-25 Amendment 488749 Failed
• 2023-04-25 Amendment 483585 Failed
• 2023-04-25 Amendment 535379 Failed
• 2023-04-25 Amendment 613459 Failed
• 2023-04-25 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2023-04-25 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-26 CS passed; YEAS 72, NAYS 44 passage
• 2023-04-26 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2023-05-08 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-09 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-10 Chapter No. 2023-35

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4fec6c1b-4dab-45b0-a079-9177b75590c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).