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type: "Bill"
title: "Voter Registration Applications"
description: "Voter Registration Applications; providing an exception to a requirement that certain voter registration applicants must be registered without party affiliation; requiring the department to provide an applicant with a certain receipt; requiring the department to ensure that information technology processes and updates do not alter certain information without written consent; etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "Florida HB 135 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-78"
primary_sponsors: ["Caruso", "Gossett-Seidman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 51
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-10-10"
last_action: "2024-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2fe7b35-2a77-4e3d-80e5-33ebefd5ce5f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/135/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6e60ff8611b9c9d2988e67b4ad5f47c04813a53640dbba2f3599f7db2ac6b998"
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 135 (2024) — Voter Registration Applications
Voter Registration Applications; providing an exception to a requirement that certain voter registration applicants must be registered without party affiliation; requiring the department to provide an applicant with a certain receipt; requiring the department to ensure that information technology processes and updates do not alter certain information without written consent; etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-78.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 135 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/135/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 135 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/135/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 135 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/135/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 135 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/135/BillText/e2/PDF)
5. **H 135 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/135/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Passage — **1130** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1130** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Caruso — primary (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — primary (person)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Berfield — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Canady — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Holcomb — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Melo — cosponsor (person)
- Michael — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Tramont — cosponsor (person)
- Truenow — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-10-10** Filed `filing`
- **2023-10-17** Referred to Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-10-17** Referred to Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-10-17** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-10-17** Now in Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-25** Added to Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-01-29** Favorable by Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** Reported out of Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
- **2024-01-29** Now in Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-09** Added to Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2024-02-13** Favorable by Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** Reported out of Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2024-02-13** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2024-02-19** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2024-02-21** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2024-02-21** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-02-21** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-02-21** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
- **2024-02-27** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2024)
- **2024-02-27** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
- **2024-02-29** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2024-02-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2024)
- **2024-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Amendment 724781 adopted
- **2024-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-04** In Messages
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-06** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Substituted for CS/SB 1256
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (830180)
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** In Messages
- **2024-03-07** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-07** Amendment 830180 Concur
- **2024-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-02** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-12** Chapter No. 2024-78
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2fe7b35-2a77-4e3d-80e5-33ebefd5ce5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).