---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Redevelopment Agencies"
description: "Community Redevelopment Agencies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 9"
citation: "Florida HB 9 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["relations", "taxation and finance", "public officers", "employees", "and records"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-163"
primary_sponsors: ["LaMarca"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6514150-8eb9-4981-9926-085b00dbffe2"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/9/ByCategory"
source_hash: "1f8e2c787feaa26804e6f8e0e8a6e5b3205b47016b1cca9ec85c13072c27ff4a"
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 HB 9 (2019) — Community Redevelopment Agencies

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-163.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 9 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/9/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 9 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/9/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 9 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/9/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 9 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/9/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Message, Passage — **81–30** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Ways & Means Committee) — **11–6** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Local, Federal & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — **10–4** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **16–7** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **70–47** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- LaMarca — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-20** Referred to Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; Ways and Means Committee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** On Committee agenda-- Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, 03/05/19, 1:00 pm, 12 HOB
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable by Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 4 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Now in Ways and Means Committee
- **2019-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Ways and Means Committee, 03/12/19, 4:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2019-03-12** Favorable by Ways and Means Committee; YEAS 11 NAYS 6 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2019-03-19** On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 03/21/19, 12:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2019-03-21** CS by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 7
- **2019-03-22** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-25** CS by State Affairs Committee read 1st time
- **2019-03-25** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-11** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/17/19
- **2019-04-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** CS passed; YEAS 70 NAYS 47 `passage`
- **2019-04-23** In Messages
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Community Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** Received
- **2019-04-30** Withdrawn from Community Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2019-04-30** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-30** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1054
- **2019-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30** Amendment(s) adopted (811912)
- **2019-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2019-05-01** In returning messages
- **2019-05-02** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (811912) -HJ 1136, 1138
- **2019-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 81 NAYS 30 `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2019-06-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-28** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Chapter No. 2019-163

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6514150-8eb9-4981-9926-085b00dbffe2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).