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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Nuisances"
description: "Public Nuisances; Revising the list of places that may be declared a public nuisance to include the site of a gambling house; revising provisions relating to the assessment and collection of fines for public nuisances; deleting a limit on the total amount of fines that may be imposed on a public nuisance, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "Florida SB 168 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-145"
primary_sponsors: ["Truenow"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-10-14"
last_action: "2026-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5ecdf22-b0d8-450b-bb07-1355d0e40840"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/168/ByCategory"
source_hash: "70f7320a56a998e1a4243ccbdae2d0aa510e0b03aadf7673235fc4efe7f42d5f"
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 168 (2026) — Public Nuisances
Public Nuisances; Revising the list of places that may be declared a public nuisance to include the site of a gambling house; revising provisions relating to the assessment and collection of fines for public nuisances; deleting a limit on the total amount of fines that may be imposed on a public nuisance, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-145.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 168 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/168/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 168 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/168/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **220** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **350** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **60** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Truenow — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-10-14** Filed `filing`
- **2025-11-03** Referred to Criminal Justice; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-01** On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 12/09/25, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-12-09** Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-12-09** Now in Community Affairs
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-15** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/20/26, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-20** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-20** Now in Rules
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-01-27** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-01-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/26
- **2026-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-01-29** Passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Immediately certified
- **2026-01-29** In Messages
- **2026-03-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- **2026-03-10** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-17** Chapter No. 2026-145
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5ecdf22-b0d8-450b-bb07-1355d0e40840`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).