Florida · Senate Bill 1644 · 2025 Regular Session

Emergency Services

  1. Introduced Feb 28, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 7, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Emergency Services ; Deleting a limitation on the number of red or red and white warning signals that certain vehicles may display; revising the circumstances under which certain applicants for a specified license are exempt from a requirement to obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity; providing criminal penalties for the submission of an affidavit that fraudulently attests to certain facts; revising a limitation on the number of counties that may be granted a certain exemption, etc.

Every action

21 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

Show the 13 earlier steps
  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Transportation; Community Affairs; Rules · Senate Transportation
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Transportation, 04/01/25, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building · Senate Transportation
  5. CommitteeCS by Transportation; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 · Senate Transportation9–0 vote
  6. SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  7. CommitteeCS by Transportation read 1st time · Senate Transportation
  8. SenateOriginal reference(s) removed: Community Affairs
  9. SenateRemaining references corrected to Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Rules
  10. CommitteeNow in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development · Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
  11. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 04/10/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building · Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
  12. CommitteeFavorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 · Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development13–0 vote
  13. CommitteeNow in Rules · Senate Rules
  1. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building · Senate Rules
  2. CommitteeFavorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0 · Senate Rules23–0 vote
  3. SenatePlaced on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  4. SenatePlaced on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/25
  5. SenateRetained on Special Order Calendar
  6. SenateRead 2nd time -SJ 549
  7. SenateSubstituted CS/HB 1487 -SJ 549
  8. SenateLaid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 1487 (Ch. 2025-94) -SJ 549

Roll calls

3 recorded votes: 0 on the floor, 3 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

DateWhereQuestionResult
Apr 1, 2025 Senate committee CS by Transportation; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 Passed 9–0
Apr 10, 2025 Senate committee Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 Passed 13–0
Apr 16, 2025 Senate committee Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0 Passed 23–0

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.