---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Procurement of Services"
description: "Public Procurement of Services; Revises maximum dollar amount for continuing contracts for construction projects; revises term \"continuing contract\" to increase certain maximum dollar amounts for professional architectural, engineering, landscape architectural, & surveying & mapping services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 441"
citation: "Florida HB 441 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-127"
primary_sponsors: ["Oversight", "Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-10-23"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c3ae1ab-29e7-4f99-bbc0-e8f47e4c4a9a"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/441/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7f2f40e711c1df638633077bf81dde82b2fd415d86361586c19742a09f4f6f2d"
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 441 (2020) — Public Procurement of Services

Public Procurement of Services; Revises maximum dollar amount for continuing contracts for construction projects; revises term "continuing contract" to increase certain maximum dollar amounts for professional architectural, engineering, landscape architectural, & surveying & mapping services.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-127.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 441 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/441/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 441 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/441/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 441 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/441/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 441 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/441/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **24–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Government Operations & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Oversight, Transparency & Public Management Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Oversight — primary (person)
- Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-23** Filed `filing`
- **2019-10-30** Referred to Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee; Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-05** On Committee agenda-- Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee, 12/12/19, 9:30 am, Morris Hall
- **2019-12-12** CS by Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2019-12-13** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2019-12-16** Now in Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/15/20, 1:00 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-15** Favorable by Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2020-01-21** On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 01/23/20, 9:30 am, Morris Hall
- **2020-01-23** CS/CS by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-23** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-23** CS/CS by State Affairs Committee read 1st time
- **2020-01-24** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/12/20
- **2020-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** CS passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 -HJ `passage`
- **2020-02-19** In Messages
- **2020-02-20** Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Received
- **2020-03-10** Withdrawn from Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-10** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 506
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 -SJ 669, 670 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-17** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Chapter No. 2020-127

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c3ae1ab-29e7-4f99-bbc0-e8f47e4c4a9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).