republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/hb-915.md

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Bill	Advertisements for Representation Services	Advertisements for Representation Services; Prohibits notaries public from using specified terms to describe themselves; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs; requires certain businesses or persons offering immigration services to make specified disclosure; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	HB 915	Florida HB 915 (2025)	bill	and solicitations criminal procedure and corrections public officers employees and records	enacted	2025-82	López, J. Woodson	3	39	2	2025-02-23	2025-05-23	openstates	ocd-bill/49e56a1d-da9c-4f21-880a-ac6374bc3930	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/915/ByCategory	3743a2fd603513a029ec21199347afa96f5e2041633128af9e1c5bf7004508ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 915 (2025) — Advertisements for Representation Services

Advertisements for Representation Services; Prohibits notaries public from using specified terms to describe themselves; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs; requires certain businesses or persons offering immigration services to make specified disclosure; creates civil cause of action for declaratory or injunctive relief & to recover damages & attorney fees & costs.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-82.

Version chain

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

1. H 915 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 915 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 915 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 114–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• López, J. — primary (person)
• Woodson — primary (person)
• Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
• Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
• Gottlieb — cosponsor (person)
• Harris — cosponsor (person)
• Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
• Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
• Valdés — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-23 Filed filing
• 2025-03-02 Referred to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2025-03-02 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-03-02 Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
• 2025-03-04 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2025-04-01 PCS added to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee agenda
• 2025-04-03 Favorable with CS by Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03 Reported out of Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
• 2025-04-03 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2025-04-03 CS Filed filing
• 2025-04-03 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2025-04-04 Referred to Judiciary Committee referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Now in Judiciary Committee
• 2025-04-15 Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
• 2025-04-17 Favorable by Judiciary Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-17 Reported out of Judiciary Committee
• 2025-04-17 Bill released to House Calendar
• 2025-04-17 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-17 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/24/2025)
• 2025-04-24 Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
• 2025-04-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-04-24 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2025-04-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-24 CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 1 passage
• 2025-04-24 In Messages
• 2025-04-25 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2025-04-25 Received enrolled
• 2025-04-28 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2025-04-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-28 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 846
• 2025-04-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-28 CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-28 In Messages
• 2025-04-28 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-22 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-23 Chapter No. 2025-82

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49e56a1d-da9c-4f21-880a-ac6374bc3930. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).