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| Bill | Virtual Currency Kiosks | Virtual Currency Kiosks; Revising the requirements for certain rules adopted by the Financial Services Commission; revising the actions by money services businesses, authorized vendors, or affiliated parties which constitute grounds for disciplinary action; prohibiting persons from engaging in certain business unless they are registered or exempt from registration; prohibiting a virtual currency kiosk business from operating in this state without registering or renewing its registration; requiring the Office of Financial Regulation to give a specified notice to applicants; specifying that certain money transmitters are exempt from registration as a virtual currency kiosk business but are subject to certain provisions; requiring applicants to submit certain information to the office to be registered as a virtual currency kiosk business; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to ensure that its virtual currency kiosk requires certain attestations from the customer and displays a certain disclosure; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to provide a customer with a specified physical or electronic receipt upon completion of a virtual currency transaction; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to issue a full refund under certain circumstances, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2026 | HB 505 | Florida HB 505 (2026) |
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enacted | 2026-178 |
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Florida HB 505 (2026) — Virtual Currency Kiosks
Virtual Currency Kiosks; Revising the requirements for certain rules adopted by the Financial Services Commission; revising the actions by money services businesses, authorized vendors, or affiliated parties which constitute grounds for disciplinary action; prohibiting persons from engaging in certain business unless they are registered or exempt from registration; prohibiting a virtual currency kiosk business from operating in this state without registering or renewing its registration; requiring the Office of Financial Regulation to give a specified notice to applicants; specifying that certain money transmitters are exempt from registration as a virtual currency kiosk business but are subject to certain provisions; requiring applicants to submit certain information to the office to be registered as a virtual currency kiosk business; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to ensure that its virtual currency kiosk requires certain attestations from the customer and displays a certain disclosure; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to provide a customer with a specified physical or electronic receipt upon completion of a virtual currency transaction; requiring a virtual currency kiosk business to issue a full refund under certain circumstances, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-178.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- H 505 Filed (filed) — source
- H 505 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 505 e1 (engrossed) — source
- H 505 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — 24–1 (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage — 107–0 (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — 108–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Daley — primary (person)
- Owen — primary (person)
- Alvarez, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Tendrich — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-11-20 Filed
filing - 2025-11-24 Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
referral-committee - 2025-11-24 Referred to Commerce Committee
referral-committee - 2025-11-24 Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- 2025-12-02 Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- 2025-12-09 Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-12-09 Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- 2025-12-09 Now in Commerce Committee
- 2026-01-13 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
filing, reading-1 - 2026-01-23 Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- 2026-01-27 Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee
committee-passage-favorable - 2026-01-28 Reported out of Commerce Committee
- 2026-01-28 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
deferral - 2026-01-28 CS Filed
filing - 2026-01-29 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
reading-1 - 2026-02-02 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2026-02-02 Added to Second Reading Calendar
- 2026-02-10 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/17/2026)
- 2026-02-17 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-02-17 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2026-02-17 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-02-17 CS passed; YEAS 108, NAYS 0
passage - 2026-02-17 In Messages
- 2026-02-18 Referred to Rules
referral-committee - 2026-02-18 Received
enrolled - 2026-02-25 Withdrawn from Rules
withdrawal - 2026-02-25 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2026-02-25 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 198
- 2026-02-25 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-02-25 Amendment(s) adopted (518110)
- 2026-02-25 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-02-25 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
passage - 2026-02-25 Immediately certified
- 2026-02-25 In Messages
- 2026-03-12 Added to Senate Message List
- 2026-03-12 Amendment 518110 Concur
- 2026-03-12 CS passed as amended; YEAS 107, NAYS 0
passage - 2026-03-12 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
enrolled - 2026-06-15 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
executive-receipt - 2026-06-26 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2026-06-29 Chapter No. 2026-178
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2a34bd1b-74cb-4eae-9064-5ed2e841f54f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).