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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 538: State Courts System

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 538 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: State Courts System. Primary sponsor: Jennifer Bradley (Republican), Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice. Most recent recorded action (June 23, 2025): Chapter No. 2025-163.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

State Courts System; Revising the availability of judges to require at least one circuit judge in each circuit to be available for hearings with limited notice; revising the duty of the Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation to provide an annual budget request to be pursuant to specified provisions; deleting the per diem cap for arbitrators who participate in court-ordered, nonbinding arbitration; authorizing judges to authenticate a jurat, or certificate of proof or acknowledgment, by affixing their signature and printing their name, title, and court, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jennifer BradleyPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate6
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil JusticePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chapter No. 2025-163
  2. Approved by Governor
  3. Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
  4. Ordered enrolled
  5. CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0
  6. Read 3rd time
  7. Added to Third Reading Calendar
  8. Placed on 3rd reading
  9. Read 2nd time
  10. 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
  11. Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
  12. Bill referred to House Calendar

Showing 12 most recent of 32 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source