---
type: "Bill"
title: "Broward County"
description: "Broward County; Provides for transfer of certain county-related functions and duties, including ex officio clerk of board of county commissioners, county recorder, auditor, and custodian of county funds to county government; provides County Auditor maintain power & authority as prescribed in Charter; provides for interlocal agreement to transfer recorder functions & duties; provides for referendum."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 989"
citation: "Florida HB 989 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["local bills"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacobs"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-12-18"
last_action: "2020-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17087e01-555b-49fb-b2ec-910d5cc16101"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/989/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6d6f3c6de3dfe07d47c542bbced3a636b789fef37483e2fe0300bd81c903515b"
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 989 (2020) — Broward County

Broward County; Provides for transfer of certain county-related functions and duties, including ex officio clerk of board of county commissioners, county recorder, auditor, and custodian of county funds to county government; provides County Auditor maintain power & authority as prescribed in Charter; provides for interlocal agreement to transfer recorder functions & duties; provides for referendum.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 989 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/989/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 989 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/989/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 989 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/989/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Local Administration Subcommittee) — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Local Bills — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **24–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jacobs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-18** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-03** Referred to Local Administration Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** On Committee agenda-- Local Administration Subcommittee, 01/16/20, 9:00 am, Webster Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** Favorable by Local Administration Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-16** 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 by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-23** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-23** CS by State Affairs Committee read 1st time
- **2020-01-24** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-02-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
- **2020-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** In Messages
- **2020-02-27** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Received
- **2020-03-09** Placed on Local Calendar, 03/11/20
- **2020-03-11** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2020-03-11** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-05-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17087e01-555b-49fb-b2ec-910d5cc16101`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).