---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sale of Surplus State-owned Office Buildings and Associated Nonconservation Lands"
description: "Sale of Surplus State-owned Office Buildings and Associated Nonconservation Lands; Revising the purpose of the Architects Incidental Trust Fund; requiring funds relating to the sale of surplus state-owned office buildings and associated nonconservation lands to be used for certain purposes; revising the entities that the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund must offer a lease to before offering certain surplus lands for sale to other specified entities, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1714"
citation: "Florida SB 1714 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-20"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc1ad818-52c4-412a-b6c0-7f74e35fbffd"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1714/ByCategory"
source_hash: "641ed3102c48302d9c0775c8dfa0200fe19194af78b950911f5d65d705631419"
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 1714 (2020) — Sale of Surplus State-owned Office Buildings and Associated Nonconservation Lands

Sale of Surplus State-owned Office Buildings and Associated Nonconservation Lands; Revising the purpose of the Architects Incidental Trust Fund; requiring funds relating to the sale of surplus state-owned office buildings and associated nonconservation lands to be used for certain purposes; revising the entities that the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund must offer a lease to before offering certain surplus lands for sale to other specified entities, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-20.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1714 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1714/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1714 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1714/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Introduced `introduction`
- **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 Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2020-02-10** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/13/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-13** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-14** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-20** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/20
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-05** 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** Passed; YEAS 115 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`
- **2020-06-10** Chapter No. 2020-20

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc1ad818-52c4-412a-b6c0-7f74e35fbffd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).