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type: "Bill"
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title: "Specialty License Plates"
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description: "Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "SB 246"
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citation: "Florida SB 246 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2026-30"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gruters"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 43
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2025-10-20"
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last_action: "2026-04-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/908f980a-5f73-4170-b439-d69ee191344c"
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source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "771a702d851cd8d25893c17d089d842363f194d93fa5de37c07a0ff0937aba47"
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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 246 (2026) — Specialty License Plates
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Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-30.
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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 246 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 246 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/c1/HTML)
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3. **S 246 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/e1/HTML)
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4. **S 246 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/e2/HTML)
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5. **S 246 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/246/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable — **11–3** (pass) · upper
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- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–1** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
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- Favorable — **5–1** (pass) · upper
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- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
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- Gruters — primary (person)
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- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-10-20** Filed `filing`
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- **2025-11-03** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
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- **2025-11-24** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 12/02/25, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
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- **2025-12-02** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 5 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-12-02** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
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- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2026-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 01/21/26, 11:00 am, 110 Senate Building
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- **2026-01-21** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 11 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2026-01-22** Now in Fiscal Policy
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- **2026-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/12/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
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- **2026-02-12** CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 1
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- **2026-02-13** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
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- **2026-02-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2026-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
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- **2026-02-18** CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
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- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-19** Amendment(s) adopted (790388)
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- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-02-19** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
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- **2026-02-19** In Messages
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- **2026-02-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
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- **2026-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026)
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- **2026-02-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
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- **2026-03-02** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
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- **2026-03-02** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026)
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- **2026-03-04** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
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- **2026-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2026)
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- **2026-03-05** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 639
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- **2026-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-05** Amendment 473559 adopted
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- **2026-03-05** Amendment 532499 adopted as amended
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- **2026-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar
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- **2026-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-05** CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-03-05** Amendment 695167 engrossed amendment (replaces 532499, 473559)
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- **2026-03-05** In returning messages
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- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (695167)
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- **2026-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2026-04-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-04-10** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2026-04-13** Chapter No. 2026-30
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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/908f980a-5f73-4170-b439-d69ee191344c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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