---
type: "Bill"
title: "Communications Services"
description: "Communications Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1000"
citation: "Florida SB 1000 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["taxation and finance", "public transportation"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-131"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86ca2c15-0666-4ae0-9fb7-5abf0e318ab1"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1000/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2618cbed7287c27287af4ad15deeb01e054ae21b47f98fe385ec9e77e8537b5e"
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 1000 (2019) — Communications Services

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-131.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1000 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1000/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1000 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1000/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1000 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1000/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1000 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1000/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1000 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/1000/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **34–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **96–16** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-22** Referred to Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Finance and Tax; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Innovation, Industry, and Technology, 03/12/19, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-03-12** CS by Innovation, Industry, and Technology; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2019-03-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-03-14** Remaining references corrected to Community Affairs; Finance and Tax; Appropriations
- **2019-03-14** Now in Community Affairs
- **2019-03-14** CS by Innovation, Industry, and Technology read 1st time
- **2019-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/26/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-03-26** CS/CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 4 NAYS 1
- **2019-03-28** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-02** Now in Finance and Tax
- **2019-04-02** CS/CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2019-04-04** On Committee agenda-- Finance and Tax, 04/09/19, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2019-04-09** Favorable by Finance and Tax; YEAS 5 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-09** Now in Appropriations
- **2019-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/18/19, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-04-18** CS/CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 1
- **2019-04-22** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-22** CS/CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2019-04-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/26/19
- **2019-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2019-04-26** In Messages
- **2019-04-29** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/30/19
- **2019-04-29** Received
- **2019-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-05-01** CS passed; YEAS 96 NAYS 16 `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-26** Chapter No. 2019-131

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86ca2c15-0666-4ae0-9fb7-5abf0e318ab1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).