Florida · Senate Bill 458 · 2025 Regular Session

Public Records and Meetings/Competitive Solicitations

SB 458 Sponsored by Keith L. Truenow Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 3, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 10, 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.

Revising the applicability of public records and public meetings exemptions, respectively, relating to competitive solicitations; providing an exemption from public records requirements for sealed bids, proposals, or replies received and publicly announced by the Department of Transportation pursuant to competitive solicitations for certain contracts; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for…

Read the full title (105 words)

Revising the applicability of public records and public meetings exemptions, respectively, relating to competitive solicitations; providing an exemption from public records requirements for sealed bids, proposals, or replies received and publicly announced by the Department of Transportation pursuant to competitive solicitations for certain contracts; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings at which negotiations with, oral presentations of, or questions answered by a vendor taking part in a competitive solicitation of the department occur and portions of team meetings at which negotiation strategies are discussed; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Transportation; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules · Senate Transportation
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  5. CommitteeDied in Transportation · Senate Transportation

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

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.