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Bill State Courts System State Courts System; Revising the availability of judges to require at least one circuit judge in each circuit to be available for hearings with limited notice; revising the duty of the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation to provide an annual budget request to be pursuant to specified provisions; deleting the per diem cap for arbitrators who participate in court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration; authorizing judges to authenticate a jurat, or certificate of proof or acknowledgment, by affixing their signature and printing their name, title, and court, etc. us/states/fl Florida Legislature 2025 SB 538 Florida SB 538 (2025)
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Florida SB 538 (2025) — State Courts System

State Courts System; Revising the availability of judges to require at least one circuit judge in each circuit to be available for hearings with limited notice; revising the duty of the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation to provide an annual budget request to be pursuant to specified provisions; deleting the per diem cap for arbitrators who participate in court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration; authorizing judges to authenticate a jurat, or certificate of proof or acknowledgment, by affixing their signature and printing their name, title, and court, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-163.

Version chain

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

  1. S 538 Filed (filed) — source
  2. S 538 c1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. S 538 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Favorable with Committee Substitute — 50 (pass) · upper
  • Third Reading — 370 (pass) · upper
  • Passage, Third Reading — 1150 (pass) · lower
  • Favorable — 240 (pass) · upper
  • Favorable — 110 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
  • Bradley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-06 Filed filing
  • 2025-02-20 Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules referral-committee
  • 2025-02-27 On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
  • 2025-03-04 Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-04 Introduced introduction
  • 2025-03-05 Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
  • 2025-03-13 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/18/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
  • 2025-03-18 CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
  • 2025-03-20 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  • 2025-03-20 Now in Rules
  • 2025-03-21 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/26/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
  • 2025-03-26 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-26 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  • 2025-03-26 CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
  • 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 37 NAYS 0 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. 2025-163

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7f1afcd-339e-4487-b8ff-a1af972051e0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).