---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development"
description: "Economic Development; Revising the responsibilities of divisions within the Department of Economic Opportunity; specifying that the concept of building the professional capacity of a regional economic development organization includes the hiring of professional staff to perform specified services; revising the maximum percentage of total infrastructure project costs for which the department may award grants; replacing CareerSource Florida, Inc., with the state board or the department in provisions relating to the implementation of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 426"
citation: "Florida SB 426 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare", "labor", "aviation", "local bills", "j", "executive branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-30"
primary_sponsors: ["Montford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-10-02"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5390556-7fcd-4e7c-be0a-927eec75c74e"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/426/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a0f70b002942a7c1c5c1cbb39708169dfca0eaf717a1f08287e40f8cbd1d62fa"
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 426 (2020) — Economic Development

Economic Development; Revising the responsibilities of divisions within the Department of Economic Opportunity; specifying that the concept of building the professional capacity of a regional economic development organization includes the hiring of professional staff to perform specified services; revising the maximum percentage of total infrastructure project costs for which the department may award grants; replacing CareerSource Florida, Inc., with the state board or the department in provisions relating to the implementation of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-30.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 426 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/426/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 426 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/426/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 426 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/426/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 426 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/426/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Montford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-02** Filed `filing`
- **2019-10-15** Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-28** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 11/05/19, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-11-05** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-11-05** Now in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
- **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Innovation, Industry, and Technology, 12/09/19, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-12-09** Favorable by Innovation, Industry, and Technology; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-12-09** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/23/20, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-01-23** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-27** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-01-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-01-27** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/04/20
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Amendment(s) adopted (606568)
- **2020-03-04** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** CS passed as amended; 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** CS passed; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19** Chapter No. 2020-30

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5390556-7fcd-4e7c-be0a-927eec75c74e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).