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type: "Bill"
title: "Limited Liability Companies"
description: "Limited Liability Companies; Defining the terms “registered foreign protected series of a foreign series limited liability company” and “registered foreign series limited liability company”; specifying that certain limited liability companies are considered a nonresident under certain circumstances; creating the “Uniform Protected Series Provisions”; providing powers and prohibitions for protected series of series limited liability companies; authorizing domestic limited liability companies to establish protected series, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 316"
citation: "Florida SB 316 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["business organizations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-162"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d309d58-a4b2-449b-915c-7c7beda06592"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/316/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7d312fe8f7b50b4b09b9e469ba04ac39990765cdabac35a3bd437823efc85410"
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 SB 316 (2025) — Limited Liability Companies
Limited Liability Companies; Defining the terms “registered foreign protected series of a foreign series limited liability company” and “registered foreign series limited liability company”; specifying that certain limited liability companies are considered a nonresident under certain circumstances; creating the “Uniform Protected Series Provisions”; providing powers and prohibitions for protected series of series limited liability companies; authorizing domestic limited liability companies to establish protected series, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-162.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 316 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/316/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 316 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/316/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 316 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/316/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **351** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **70** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **240** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1150** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **110** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Berman — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-17** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 02/18/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-02-18** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Now in Judiciary
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-14** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/19/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-19** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/26/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-26** CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-27** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-03-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/03/25
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** CS passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-03** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-162
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d309d58-a4b2-449b-915c-7c7beda06592`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).