Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Utility and Communications Poles"
+description: "Utility and Communications Poles; Exempting certain rules adopted by the Public Service Commission from legislative ratification requirements; requiring the commission to regulate and enforce rates, charges, terms, and conditions for pole attachments under certain circumstances; providing situations under which a pole owner may deny access to the owner’s pole on a nondiscriminatory basis; requiring the commission to hear and resolve complaints concerning rates, charges, terms, conditions, voluntary agreements, and denial of access relative to pole attachments, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 1944"
+citation: "Florida SB 1944 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["railroads and other regulated utilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2021-191"
+primary_sponsors: ["Albritton"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-03-01"
+last_action: "2021-07-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9b0e6e6-9647-496a-a874-15bfe25eff06"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1944/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "31caf82fa36ab0c8a60ce483c3e0b43e0907eeb0514eebae5f597c853658e1e4"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
+---
+
+# Florida SB 1944 (2021) — Utility and Communications Poles
+
+Utility and Communications Poles; Exempting certain rules adopted by the Public Service Commission from legislative ratification requirements; requiring the commission to regulate and enforce rates, charges, terms, and conditions for pole attachments under certain circumstances; providing situations under which a pole owner may deny access to the owner’s pole on a nondiscriminatory basis; requiring the commission to hear and resolve complaints concerning rates, charges, terms, conditions, voluntary agreements, and denial of access relative to pole attachments, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-191.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 1944 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1944/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 1944 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1944/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 1944 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1944/BillText/e1/HTML)
+4. **S 1944 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1944/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **8–1** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **15–4** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **114–3** (pass) · lower
+- Third Reading — **37–2** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **6–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Albritton — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-01** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-03-04** Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/16/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
+- **2021-03-16** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 6 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-17** Now in Community Affairs
+- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/30/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2021-03-30** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-31** Now in Appropriations
+- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2021-04-19** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 15 NAYS 4
+- **2021-04-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2021-04-20** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
+- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2021-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
+- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26** Amendment(s) adopted (757712)
+- **2021-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 2 `passage`
+- **2021-04-26** In Messages
+- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
+- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
+- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 3 `passage`
+- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
+- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
+- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
+- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-191
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9b0e6e6-9647-496a-a874-15bfe25eff06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
+