---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unlawful Detention by a Transient Occupant"
description: "Unlawful Detention by a Transient Occupant"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 566"
citation: "Florida SB 566 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["housing"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2018-83"
primary_sponsors: ["Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-10-19"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf072cce-a686-48a6-b2cc-97b3a1b6985d"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/00566/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0dcfd6e43dbe455f932652d68aae2de79c28dca9afc430b3384f9d5cf4d94edd"
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 566 (2018) — Unlawful Detention by a Transient Occupant

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2018-83.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 566 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/566/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 566 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/566/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 566 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/566/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 566 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/566/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-10-19** Filed `filing`
- **2017-11-02** Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-27** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 12/04/17, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Office Building
- **2017-12-04** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-05** Now in Judiciary
- **2018-01-05** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/10/18, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Office Building
- **2018-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2018-01-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2018-01-11** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2018-01-12** Now in Rules
- **2018-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/25/18, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Office Building
- **2018-01-25** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2018-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/18
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 -SJ 563, 564 `passage`
- **2018-03-02** In Messages
- **2018-03-05** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/18
- **2018-03-05** Received
- **2018-03-06** Read 2nd time -HJ 1013, 1014 `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 385
- **2018-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (233661)
- **2018-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-07** In returning messages
- **2018-03-09** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (233661)
- **2018-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 -SJ 1007, 1008 `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2018-03-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2018-03-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-26** Chapter No. 2018-83

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf072cce-a686-48a6-b2cc-97b3a1b6985d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).