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type: "Bill"
title: "Ethics"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 348"
citation: "Florida SB 348 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-85"
primary_sponsors: ["Gaetz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4a65637-f672-463c-8786-dbb3b4db68b0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/348/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ee681fa82ac110d6a29fea109631ca8559313eb4b98418aee8f79bc954fc630e"
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 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/348/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 348 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/348/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 348 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/348/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **60** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **250** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **70** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4a65637-f672-463c-8786-dbb3b4db68b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).