republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-7020.md

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Bill	Delivery of Notices	Delivery of Notices; Revising the definition of the term “registered mail” for purposes of construction of the Florida Statutes, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	SB 7020	Florida SB 7020 (2024)	bill	construction of statutes	enacted	2024-147	Judiciary	4	33	5	2024-01-04	2024-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/de0f4a40-af55-47a8-8bb9-01616a611e51	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/7020/ByCategory	c9eecacebf4ba942bdd4037520fe4619d600154dddf48c7f4ffd6174627d72d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 7020 (2024) — Delivery of Notices

Delivery of Notices; Revising the definition of the term “registered mail” for purposes of construction of the Florida Statutes, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-147.

Version chain

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

1. S 7020 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 7020 pb (committee substitute) — source
3. S 7020 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. S 7020 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Submitted and Reported Favorably as Committee Bill — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 19–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Submitted for consideration by Judiciary
• 2024-01-04 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/09/24, 2:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2024-01-09 Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
• 2024-01-10 Filed filing
• 2024-01-11 Referred to Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2024-01-19 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/24/24, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2024-01-24 Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-25 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2024-01-26 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/31/24, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2024-01-31 Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-01 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-02-08 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/14/24
• 2024-02-14 Retained on Special Order Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Retained on Special Order Calendar
• 2024-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-21 Amendment(s) adopted (711484)
• 2024-02-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed as amended; YEAS 36 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 (Engrossed 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 Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-05 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-22 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-06 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-07 Chapter No. 2024-147

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de0f4a40-af55-47a8-8bb9-01616a611e51. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).