republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-1198.md

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Bill	Corporate Actions	Corporate Actions; Providing that a defective corporate action is not void or voidable in certain circumstances; requiring the board of directors to take certain action to ratify a defective corporate action; providing quorum and voting requirements for the ratification of certain defective corporate actions; requiring that notice be given to shareholders of certain corporate action taken by the board of directors; providing that notice is not required for holders of certain shares whose identities or addresses for notice cannot be determined, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 1198	Florida SB 1198 (2024)	bill	banks and banking business organizations judicial branch military affairs and related matters public business	enacted	2024-265	Commerce and Tourism Martin Rules	4	31	4	2024-01-03	2024-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/002d9281-98b0-4042-af02-36b177f1bff6	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1198/ByCategory	59c0337aba858bd86262e99e9868fb94af3164686f646536522c7e60d11637b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1198 (2024) — Corporate Actions

Corporate Actions; Providing that a defective corporate action is not void or voidable in certain circumstances; requiring the board of directors to take certain action to ratify a defective corporate action; providing quorum and voting requirements for the ratification of certain defective corporate actions; requiring that notice be given to shareholders of certain corporate action taken by the board of directors; providing that notice is not required for holders of certain shares whose identities or addresses for notice cannot be determined, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-265.

Version chain

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

1. S 1198 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1198 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 1198 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 1198 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 20–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Commerce and Tourism — primary (person)
• Martin — primary (person)
• Rules — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-03 Filed filing
• 2024-01-08 Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-18 On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/23/24, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2024-01-23 CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-24 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-01-24 CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time
• 2024-01-25 Now in Rules
• 2024-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/08/24, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-02-08 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
• 2024-02-09 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2024-02-09 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-09 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/24
• 2024-02-13 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2024-02-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-14 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-14 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-14 In Messages
• 2024-03-01 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-03-01 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
• 2024-03-01 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-06-17 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-06-25 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-06-26 Chapter No. 2024-265

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/002d9281-98b0-4042-af02-36b177f1bff6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).