republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2026/sb-572.md

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Bill	Ethics for Public Officers and Employees	Ethics for Public Officers and Employees; Revising the definition of the term “relative” to include foster parents and foster children; providing that specified provisions do not prohibit a board, council, commission, or collegial body from appointing, employing, promoting, or advancing elected public officials who are related to a leadership position on the same board, council, commission, or collegial body, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2026	SB 572	Florida SB 572 (2026)	bill	(vetoed) electors and elections insurance judicial branch veterans	enacted	2026-22	Harrell	5	37	6	2025-11-18	2026-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/78618b98-9c64-442d-b87f-c0fc7455f70e	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/572/ByCategory	2bf7541eb470a15cbfa42d67f717c799cc1fb94dc4d40cb96003bf21f7f8698f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 572 (2026) — Ethics for Public Officers and Employees

Ethics for Public Officers and Employees; Revising the definition of the term “relative” to include foster parents and foster children; providing that specified provisions do not prohibit a board, council, commission, or collegial body from appointing, employing, promoting, or advancing elected public officials who are related to a leadership position on the same board, council, commission, or collegial body, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-22.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. S 572 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 572 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 572 e1 (engrossed) — source
4. S 572 e2 (engrossed) — source
5. S 572 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 23–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 113–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Governmental Oversight and Accountability — primary (organization)
• Harrell — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-11-18 Filed filing
• 2025-12-09 Referred to Ethics and Elections; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules referral-committee
• 2026-01-08 On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 01/13/26, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2026-01-13 Favorable by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-13 Introduced introduction
• 2026-01-14 Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
• 2026-01-21 On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/26/26, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2026-01-26 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
• 2026-01-27 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2026-01-28 Now in Rules
• 2026-01-29 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
• 2026-01-29 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2026-02-03 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-02-03 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2026-02-09 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/11/26
• 2026-02-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-02-11 Amendment(s) adopted (807008)
• 2026-02-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-02-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-02-11 Immediately certified
• 2026-02-11 In Messages
• 2026-03-09 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2026-03-09 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
• 2026-03-09 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2026-03-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-10 Amendment 187567 adopted
• 2026-03-10 Amendment 620573 superseded by substitute
• 2026-03-10 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2026-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-03-10 In returning messages
• 2026-03-12 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (187567)
• 2026-03-12 CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-03-12 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-31 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-04-01 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-04-02 Chapter No. 2026-22

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78618b98-9c64-442d-b87f-c0fc7455f70e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).