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Bill	Secured Transactions	Secured Transactions; Providing that a description of certain accounts and entitlements by a certain type of collateral is insufficient for the purpose of security agreements, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2023	SB 978	Florida SB 978 (2023)	bill	commercial relations	enacted	2023-266	Bradley Community Affairs	3	31	5	2023-02-20	2023-06-22	openstates	ocd-bill/44e7e6fa-ed0f-426b-8b50-8abd9b9ec456	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/978/ByCategory	c91b550115da0f6a7f9d645d0929830c0e7190e2adea86af6e76ebf2863e7afa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 978 (2023) — Secured Transactions

Secured Transactions; Providing that a description of certain accounts and entitlements by a certain type of collateral is insufficient for the purpose of security agreements, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-266.

Version chain

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

1. S 978 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 978 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 978 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bradley — primary (person)
• Community Affairs — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-20 Filed filing
• 2023-02-28 Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Community Affairs; Rules referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Introduced introduction
• 2023-03-15 On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/20/23, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2023-03-20 Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-21 Now in Community Affairs
• 2023-03-24 On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/29/23, 8:30 am, 401 Senate Building
• 2023-03-29 CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2023-03-30 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2023-03-30 Now in Rules
• 2023-03-30 CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
• 2023-04-06 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/11/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2023-04-11 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-11 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2023-04-13 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/18/23
• 2023-04-18 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-18 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-04-19 In Messages
• 2023-04-19 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2023-04-19 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2023)
• 2023-04-19 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2023-04-20 Substituted for CS/HB 901
• 2023-04-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-20 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-20 CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-04-20 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2023-06-14 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-20 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-06-22 Chapter No. 2023-266

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44e7e6fa-ed0f-426b-8b50-8abd9b9ec456. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).