---
type: "Bill"
title: "City of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County"
description: "City of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 901"
citation: "Florida HB 901 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["local bills"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-174"
primary_sponsors: ["Willhite"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fefe634-a9ef-4e7a-9f4b-384bcaf843f0"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/901/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a85443532774fcc2e7a0b15955745ae91ca796dba8ca7dc999421b525b05e470"
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 901 (2019) — City of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-174.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 901 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/901/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 901 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/901/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 901 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/901/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 901 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/901/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Local Bills — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Oversight, Transparency & Public Management Subcommittee) — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (State Affairs Committee) — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Local, Federal & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Willhite — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, 03/12/19, 8:30 am, 12 HOB
- **2019-03-12** CS by Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-13** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-13** CS by Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2019-03-14** Now in Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee
- **2019-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee, 03/20/19, 9:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2019-03-20** CS/CS by Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-20** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-03-21** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2019-03-21** CS/CS by Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2019-03-26** On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 03/28/19, 10:30 am, Morris Hall
- **2019-03-28** Favorable by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-04-18** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/19
- **2019-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-24** In Messages
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Received
- **2019-04-29** Placed on Local Calendar, 05/01/19
- **2019-05-01** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2019-05-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-05-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-08** Chapter No. 2019-174

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fefe634-a9ef-4e7a-9f4b-384bcaf843f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).