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Bill	Designation of Eligible Telecommunications Carriers	Designation of Eligible Telecommunications Carriers; Revising the definition of the term “eligible telecommunications carrier”; authorizing the Public Service Commission to designate certain entities as eligible telecommunications carriers for a specified purpose, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 478	Florida SB 478 (2024)	bill	railroads and other regulated utilities	enacted	2024-88	Regulated Industries Rodriguez	3	34	5	2023-11-15	2024-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/001a3f97-3084-42ef-b6c6-fa8195dfc59f	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/478/ByCategory	a93d9ed95c21db84f477dfae4cb536e2703675bfa9fc1697156f34cf168bb370	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 478 (2024) — Designation of Eligible Telecommunications Carriers

Designation of Eligible Telecommunications Carriers; Revising the definition of the term “eligible telecommunications carrier”; authorizing the Public Service Commission to designate certain entities as eligible telecommunications carriers for a specified purpose, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-88.

Version chain

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

1. S 478 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 478 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 478 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Regulated Industries — primary (person)
• Rodriguez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-15 Filed filing
• 2023-11-28 Referred to Regulated Industries; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules referral-committee
• 2023-12-04 On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 12/13/23, 8:30 am, 401 Senate Building
• 2023-12-13 CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 4 NAYS 0
• 2023-12-14 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2023-12-14 Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
• 2024-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-09 CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
• 2024-01-11 On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/16/24, 11:00 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2024-01-16 Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-16 Now in Rules
• 2024-01-19 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/24/24, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-24 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-24 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-01-30 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/01/24
• 2024-02-01 Retained on Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/21/24
• 2024-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-02-21 Immediately certified
• 2024-02-21 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 1) 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 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-02 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-15 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-04-16 Chapter No. 2024-88

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/001a3f97-3084-42ef-b6c6-fa8195dfc59f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).