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type: "Bill"
title: "Employee Organizations Representing Public Employees"
description: "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 employees 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 256"
citation: "Florida SB 256 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["labor"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-35"
primary_sponsors: ["Fiscal Policy", "Governmental Oversight and Accountability", "Ingoglia"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-28"
last_action: "2023-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fec6c1b-4dab-45b0-a079-9177b75590c7"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ce8d3d9c087aa79cdb9ac9259ead569b890f233cc1f259ca076b7fd2ea6f53bd"
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 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 employees 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 256 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 256 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 256 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 256 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 256 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/256/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **2317** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **137** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **7244** (pass) · lower
- A - 692892, Amendment, Second Reading — **1226** (fail) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **53** (pass) · upper
- A - 488749, Adoption, Second Reading — **3380** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fec6c1b-4dab-45b0-a079-9177b75590c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).