---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts"
description: "Courts; Revising provisions governing the payment of subsistence and travel reimbursement for Supreme Court justices who designate an official headquarters other than the headquarters of the Supreme Court; authorizing district court of appeal judges who meet certain criteria to have an appropriate facility in their county of residence designated as their official headquarters; specifying eligibility for subsistence and travel reimbursement, subject to the availability of funds; providing that a county is not required to provide space for a judge in a county courthouse, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1392"
citation: "Florida SB 1392 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["criminal procedure and corrections", "judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-61"
primary_sponsors: ["Simmons"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-03"
last_action: "2020-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14005170-d75d-419c-9e25-c064d4789af4"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1392/ByCategory"
source_hash: "12e49d07c5bfb49c47ed7a363d03de3bc170552227071231b367945bd43969d2"
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 1392 (2020) — Courts

Courts; Revising provisions governing the payment of subsistence and travel reimbursement for Supreme Court justices who designate an official headquarters other than the headquarters of the Supreme Court; authorizing district court of appeal judges who meet certain criteria to have an appropriate facility in their county of residence designated as their official headquarters; specifying eligibility for subsistence and travel reimbursement, subject to the availability of funds; providing that a county is not required to provide space for a judge in a county courthouse, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-61.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1392 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1392/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1392 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1392/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1392 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1392/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1392 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1392/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simmons — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-03** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-13** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/21/20, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-21** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-23** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-01-23** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2020-01-27** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2020-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/13/20, 10:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2020-02-13** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-17** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/03/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-03-03** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-04** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-04** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **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 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **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 118 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** 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. 2020-61

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14005170-d75d-419c-9e25-c064d4789af4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).