---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Affairs"
description: "Community Affairs; Authorizing a board of county commissioners to approve development of affordable housing on any parcel zoned for residential, commercial, or industrial use; amending the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969 to authorize private entities to enter into specified loan agreements; revising the information required to be annually submitted by municipal budget officers to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; renaming the Community Workforce Housing Innovation Pilot Program as the Community Workforce Housing Loan Program to provide workforce housing for persons affected by the high cost of housing, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1339"
citation: "Florida HB 1339 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare", "real and personal property", "motor vehicles", "railroads and other regulated utilities", "relations", "and solicitations", "municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-27"
primary_sponsors: ["Yarborough"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c258eb3d-a24c-422a-8e7a-b73031882e1c"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f3ff9fcfb511ccef7a1c596cf9bb9b9690bd754057c637a2f3c9e6a761950eee"
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 1339 (2020) — Community Affairs

Community Affairs; Authorizing a board of county commissioners to approve development of affordable housing on any parcel zoned for residential, commercial, or industrial use; amending the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969 to authorize private entities to enter into specified loan agreements; revising the information required to be annually submitted by municipal budget officers to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; renaming the Community Workforce Housing Innovation Pilot Program as the Community Workforce Housing Loan Program to provide workforce housing for persons affected by the high cost of housing, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-27.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1339 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1339 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1339 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1339 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 1339 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/e1/PDF)
6. **H 1339 e2** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/e2/PDF)
7. **H 1339 e3** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/e3/PDF)
8. **H 1339 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1339/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **101–10** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Local, Federal & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Ways & Means Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 998), Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **23–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yarborough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; Ways and Means Committee; Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, 02/03/20, 3:00 pm, 12 HOB
- **2020-02-03** CS by Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-05** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-06** CS by Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-02-06** Now in Ways and Means Committee
- **2020-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Ways and Means Committee, 02/19/20, 9:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-19** CS/CS by Ways and Means Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-19** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-19** CS/CS by Ways and Means Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-20** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2020-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Commerce Committee, 02/27/20, 8:00 am, Webster Hall
- **2020-02-27** CS/CS/CS by- Commerce Committee; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-01** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-03-02** CS/CS/CS by Commerce Committee read 1st time
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (292409, 945829) -HJ 869, 881
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Amendment(s) adopted (023483)
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 119 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Community Affairs; Infrastructure and Security; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Community Affairs; Infrastructure and Security; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 998
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Amendment(s) adopted (573190)
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** In returning messages
- **2020-03-13** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (573190) -HJ 1188, 1200
- **2020-03-13** CS passed as amended; YEAS 101 NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2020-05-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-10** Chapter No. 2020-27

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c258eb3d-a24c-422a-8e7a-b73031882e1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).