Florida Legislature, floor votes on HB 3763 (1998) and CS/CS/HB 37 (2021)

Four floor votes. Twenty-three years apart. Not one recorded nay in either chamber, either time.

Act	Bill	House	Senate
Ch. 98-268 (1998)	House Bill 3763	110 to 0	38 to 0
Ch. 2021-60 (2021)	CS/CS/HB 37	117 to 0	40 to 0

The 1998 bill number is on the face of the reprinted session law itself: “CHAPTER 98-268 / House Bill No. 3763” (Appendix B of the Task Force report).

1998 history: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/1998/3763

This is the receipt behind ABANDONED’s central claim. The essay says the better words already passed, and nobody voted against them. That is not rhetoric. It is four roll calls.

Honest scope of “unanimous.” These are no recorded nay votes. They do not establish that every member was present and voting. That is the standard meaning of a unanimous floor vote and it is more than sufficient for the claim, but state it as nobody voted against it, not as every legislator voted for it.

Why it matters. The essay’s thesis is that the words were never the problem. A statute can be dismissed as one committee’s language. A statute that clears four floor votes with zero opposition across a generation is a settled public consensus, and Florida has been holding it, without interruption, above what archaeologists believe to be 126 caskets under five apartment buildings.

Note: this claim was cut from a draft for being unsourced, and then restored when the gate went and found the votes. Cutting a true sentence because you did not want to go and look is its own failure. The receipt existed. Nobody had fetched it.