---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Planning"
description: "Community Planning; Providing requirements for establishing a quorum for meetings of certain councils when a voting member appears via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication; requiring the member to give notice of intent to appear via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication by a specified time; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to give a preference to certain counties and municipalities when selecting applications for funding for technical assistance, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1398"
citation: "Florida SB 1398 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-122"
primary_sponsors: ["Flores"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbba704c-2b7c-4320-b83d-ad705c9973ae"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1398/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b9a104252301f7aebb30596c263db7017a708161b638e977f7841a33dc28a32d"
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 1398 (2020) — Community Planning

Community Planning; Providing requirements for establishing a quorum for meetings of certain councils when a voting member appears via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication; requiring the member to give notice of intent to appear via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication by a specified time; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to give a preference to certain counties and municipalities when selecting applications for funding for technical assistance, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-122.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1398 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1398/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1398 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1398/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1398 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1398/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **3–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Flores — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-13** Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/21/20, 4:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-21** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 3 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-22** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2020-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 02/03/20, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-02-03** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-03** Now in Rules
- **2020-02-07** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/12/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-12** CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-13** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-02-13** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2020-02-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
- **2020-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 370, 371 `passage`
- **2020-03-03** 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 113 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-30** Chapter No. 2020-122

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbba704c-2b7c-4320-b83d-ad705c9973ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).