Florida Legislative History

The Florida statutes are available in two formats: statutes and annotated statutes.  Statutes are the official codification of laws in Florida while the annotated statutes provide additional insight, context, and reference materials such as case law that interprets the statute or regulatory rules related to the statute.  

Florida Statutes

Florida statutes are available via two Florida government publicly accessible websites.

• Online Sunshine
• Florida Senate

Florida Annotated Statutes

Annotated statutes are available via the commercial subscription databases LexisNexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law.  Current STU Law students are provided a subscription for these services.  Please contact the Law Library if you need to obtain access.

LexisNexis Annotated Florida Statutes

West's Florida's Statutes Annotated

Bloomberg Law Florida Statutes

The Laws of Florida are available from the Florida State Library Archives website: http://laws.flrules.org/

Additionally, the laws of Florida are available from:

• Westlaw (current session)
• Westlaw (historical)
• Bloomberg Law (note: Law of Florida from Bloomberg are in a searchable database only.  One cannot 'browse' for the session law they are looking for)

Florida legislative committee staff analysis' are available from the relevant legislative chambers website and can be found by searching for the statute for which one needs the staff analysis.  

Florida House of Representatives - www.myfloridahouse.com

• Click on 'Bills' and then search or browse for the bill in question.

Florida Senate - www.flsenate.gov

• Click 'Session' in the upper menu bar and then 'Bills'

Florida legislative journals are available from the relevant legislative chambers website and can be found by searching for the statute for which one needs the staff analysis.  

Florida House of Representatives - www.myfloridahouse.com

• Click on 'Publications' and then 'House Journals'

Florida Senate - www.flsenate.gov

• Click 'Session' in the upper menu bar and then 'Journal'

Final Legislative Bill Information is available via Florida's Online Sunshine by clicking 'Citator' in the left-side menu or directly at: http://billinfo.leg.state.fl.us/

Each legislative session will have its own Final Bill Information publication.  Select the session in which the bill you need to research was passed and then the Final Legislative Bill Information should be the first item listed on the page.