---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Bicycles"
description: "Electric Bicycles; Provides for rights & privileges of electric bicycles & operators; provides that electric bicycles are vehicles to same extent as bicycles; exempts electric bicycles & operators from specified provisions; requires labeling of electric bicycles; requires electric bicycles to comply with specified provisions & operate in certain manner; authorizes operators to ride electric bicycles where bicycles are allowed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 971"
citation: "Florida HB 971 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["banks and banking", "motor vehicles", "commercial relations", "public lands and property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-69"
primary_sponsors: ["Grant"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-12-17"
last_action: "2020-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c31bc6f5-0665-418c-8fe3-5f2458be919a"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/971/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2291a1a4ee6ec13b70d84c86284e38e7d835d42a3cce18d667b5ec401a9f7dfb"
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 971 (2020) — Electric Bicycles

Electric Bicycles; Provides for rights & privileges of electric bicycles & operators; provides that electric bicycles are vehicles to same extent as bicycles; exempts electric bicycles & operators from specified provisions; requires labeling of electric bicycles; requires electric bicycles to comply with specified provisions & operate in certain manner; authorizes operators to ride electric bicycles where bicycles are allowed.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-69.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 971 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/971/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 971 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/971/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 971 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/971/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 971 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/971/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Transportation & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Grant — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-17** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee; Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, 01/28/20, 12:00 pm, Reed Hall
- **2020-01-28** CS by Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-29** Pending review of CS under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-29** CS by Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee read 1st time
- **2020-01-30** Now in Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2020-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee, 02/03/20, 3:00 pm, Reed Hall
- **2020-02-03** Favorable by Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-03** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2020-02-18** On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 02/20/20, 8:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2020-02-20** CS/CS by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 21 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-20** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-02-20** CS/CS by State Affairs Committee read 1st time
- **2020-02-21** 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** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Withdrawn from Infrastructure and Security; Community Affairs; Rules `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-09** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-09** Substituted for CS/SB 1148
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-22** Chapter No. 2020-69

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c31bc6f5-0665-418c-8fe3-5f2458be919a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).