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type: "Bill"
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title: "State Courts System"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 538"
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citation: "Florida SB 538 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["domestic relations", "evidence", "judicial branch"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2025-163"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 32
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2025-02-06"
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last_action: "2025-06-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7f1afcd-339e-4487-b8ff-a1af972051e0"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/538/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "ab214e431867e96da6834ee78dffdf77c180568e509dd82de49990619ae12842"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 538 (2025) — State Courts System
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-163.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 538 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/538/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 538 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/538/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 538 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/538/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable — **24–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice — primary (organization)
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- Bradley — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-06** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-02-20** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
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- **2025-03-04** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2025-03-05** Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
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- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/18/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
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- **2025-03-18** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
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- **2025-03-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2025-03-20** Now in Rules
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- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/26/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2025-03-26** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2025-03-26** CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
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- **2025-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/03/25
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- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-03** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-03** Immediately certified
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- **2025-04-03** In Messages
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- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
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- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
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- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-163
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7f1afcd-339e-4487-b8ff-a1af972051e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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