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type: "Bill"
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title: "Veterans’ Benefits Assistance"
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description: "Veterans’ Benefits Assistance; Prohibiting a person from receiving compensation for referring an individual to a provider for advising, assisting, or consulting on any veterans’ benefits matter; requiring that persons who advise, assist, or consult on veterans’ benefits matters for compensation provide a specified oral and written disclosure before entering into a business relationship with a client; prohibiting a provider who advises, assists, or consults on veterans’ benefits matters from charging certain fees; requiring a provider to ensure that individuals who directly assist a veteran in a veterans’ benefits matter complete a specified background screening before entering into an agreement with a veteran for veterans’ benefits matters, 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 910"
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citation: "Florida SB 910 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["(adopted)"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2025-150"
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primary_sponsors: ["Collins"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 34
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2025-02-19"
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last_action: "2025-06-23"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a1df8b9-9151-426a-beae-f89f1a98c6e2"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "6b2e9346296fea92ac212765b8d0aacdcac4f8020cd60168031475eb2543b073"
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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 910 (2025) — Veterans’ Benefits Assistance
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Veterans’ Benefits Assistance; Prohibiting a person from receiving compensation for referring an individual to a provider for advising, assisting, or consulting on any veterans’ benefits matter; requiring that persons who advise, assist, or consult on veterans’ benefits matters for compensation provide a specified oral and written disclosure before entering into a business relationship with a client; prohibiting a provider who advises, assists, or consults on veterans’ benefits matters from charging certain fees; requiring a provider to ensure that individuals who directly assist a veteran in a veterans’ benefits matter complete a specified background screening before entering into an agreement with a veteran for veterans’ benefits matters, etc.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-150.
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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 910 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 910 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 910 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/c2/HTML)
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4. **S 910 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/910/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **24–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Collins — primary (person)
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- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security — primary (organization)
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- Rules — primary (organization)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-19** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-02-28** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
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- **2025-03-18** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; 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 Commerce and Tourism
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- **2025-03-26** CS by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security read 1st time
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- **2025-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/31/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
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- **2025-03-31** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-01** Now in Rules
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- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
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- **2025-04-08** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
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- **2025-04-09** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2025-04-09** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
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- **2025-04-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/15/25
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- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-15** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2025-04-15** Immediately certified
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- **2025-04-15** 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 2) `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 114, 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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- **2025-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-150
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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/4a1df8b9-9151-426a-beae-f89f1a98c6e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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