republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2025/sb-348.md

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Bill	Ethics	Ethics; Prohibiting candidates, elected public officers, appointed public officers, and public employees from knowingly misrepresenting their Armed Forces of the United States service records, awards, or qualifications or wearing any uniform, medal, or insignia that they are not authorized to wear; requiring the Attorney General to attempt to determine whether an individual owing certain penalties is a current public officer or public employee, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 348	Florida SB 348 (2025)	bill		enacted	2025-85	Gaetz	3	32	5	2025-01-27	2025-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/e4a65637-f672-463c-8786-dbb3b4db68b0	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/348/ByCategory	ee681fa82ac110d6a29fea109631ca8559313eb4b98418aee8f79bc954fc630e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 348 (2025) — Ethics

Ethics; Prohibiting candidates, elected public officers, appointed public officers, and public employees from knowingly misrepresenting their Armed Forces of the United States service records, awards, or qualifications or wearing any uniform, medal, or insignia that they are not authorized to wear; requiring the Attorney General to attempt to determine whether an individual owing certain penalties is a current public officer or public employee, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-85.

Version chain

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

1. S 348 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 348 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 348 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 25–0 (pass) · upper
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ethics and Elections — primary (organization)
• Gaetz — primary (person)
• Avila — cosponsor (person)
• Collins — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-27 Filed filing
• 2025-02-03 Referred to Ethics and Elections; Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Rules referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 02/18/25, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2025-02-18 CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
• 2025-02-19 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-02-21 Now in Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security
• 2025-02-27 On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/04/25, 2:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2025-03-04 Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-04 CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time
• 2025-03-05 Now in Rules
• 2025-03-07 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/12/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-03-12 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-12 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-03-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
• 2025-03-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-19 CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-03-19 Immediately certified
• 2025-03-19 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 114, NAYS 0 passage
• 2025-04-29 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-23 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-27 Chapter No. 2025-85

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4a65637-f672-463c-8786-dbb3b4db68b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).