---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lessor Liability Under Special Mobile Equipment Leases"
description: "Lessor Liability Under Special Mobile Equipment Leases"
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 862"
citation: "Florida SB 862 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2019-104"
primary_sponsors: ["Stargel"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f419b140-1be1-419d-98d2-c7e9fa4baf8a"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/862/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7210887b6fef01070cb35337dcecef038365bd2ee115e9fa5994d71704493a0a"
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 862 (2019) — Lessor Liability Under Special Mobile Equipment Leases

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2019-104.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 862 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/862/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 862 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/862/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 862 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/862/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 862 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/862/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 862 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/862/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **83–32** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **14–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stargel — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-19** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 03/18/19, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-03-18** CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 5 NAYS 1
- **2019-03-19** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-03-20** Now in Judiciary
- **2019-03-21** CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2019-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 04/08/19, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-04-08** CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 5 NAYS 1
- **2019-04-10** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-10** Now in Rules
- **2019-04-10** CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2019-04-12** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/17/19, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-04-17** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 2
- **2019-04-18** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-04-22** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2019-04-22** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2019-04-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/19
- **2019-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-24** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** CS passed; YEAS 29 NAYS 8 `passage`
- **2019-04-25** In Messages
- **2019-04-26** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/29/19
- **2019-04-26** Received
- **2019-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2019-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 83 NAYS 32 `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Ordered enrolled
- **2019-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2019-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-18** Chapter No. 2019-104

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f419b140-1be1-419d-98d2-c7e9fa4baf8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).