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type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation"
description: "Transportation; Requiring licensing, rather than registration, of motor carriers; revising reporting periods and due dates for motor fuel use tax returns; revising the apparent amount of property damage that requires the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash to notify law enforcement of the crash; defining the term “REAL ID driver license or identification card”; providing that the use of a license plate frame or decorative border device is not prohibited under specified conditions, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 488"
citation: "Florida SB 488 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-39"
primary_sponsors: ["Massullo"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-11-13"
last_action: "2026-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2b1595c-e861-431f-b89b-1ca36a1e9d84"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/488/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ac17f11dd744b0a1b33ad31dcf1810bd69198c76d814f8b2125bc52237e1a4b2"
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 488 (2026) — Transportation
Transportation; Requiring licensing, rather than registration, of motor carriers; revising reporting periods and due dates for motor fuel use tax returns; revising the apparent amount of property damage that requires the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash to notify law enforcement of the crash; defining the term “REAL ID driver license or identification card”; providing that the use of a license plate frame or decorative border device is not prohibited under specified conditions, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-39.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 488 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/488/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 488 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/488/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 488 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/488/BillText/e2/HTML)
4. **S 488 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/488/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **140** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **150** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **360** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1081** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Massullo — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-11-13** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-01** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 01/12/26, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-12** Favorable by Transportation; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-12** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 01/21/26, 11:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-01-21** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 14 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-21** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2026-02-02** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/05/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-05** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 15 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Amendment(s) adopted (458674)
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-19** In Messages
- **2026-03-05** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-05** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)
- **2026-03-05** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 312799 adopted
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 520293 adopted
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 106271 adopted
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 073989 adopted as amended
- **2026-03-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Passed as amended; YEAS 108, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 078509 engrossed amendment (replaces 073989, 106271, 520293, 312799)
- **2026-03-09** In returning messages
- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (078509)
- **2026-03-11** Passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-22** Chapter No. 2026-39
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2b1595c-e861-431f-b89b-1ca36a1e9d84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).