---
type: "Bill"
title: "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act"
description: "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; Creating the \"Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act\"; providing requirements relating to the court determination of heirs property; providing for the determination of property value; providing for buyout of cotenants; providing for sale of property through open-market sale, sealed bids, or auction; authorizing certain cotenants to agree to certain partitions of real property, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 580"
citation: "Florida SB 580 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-55"
primary_sponsors: ["Bracy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-10-18"
last_action: "2020-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5548b80c-2d2d-4af8-9120-38ab27275ee7"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/580/ByCategory"
source_hash: "71bafc885e16e7b3cace1eb262eda6543295c084ee33c92fc9aab52d87a0d3d5"
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 580 (2020) — Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; Creating the "Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act"; providing requirements relating to the court determination of heirs property; providing for the determination of property value; providing for buyout of cotenants; providing for sale of property through open-market sale, sealed bids, or auction; authorizing certain cotenants to agree to certain partitions of real property, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-55.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 580 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/580/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 580 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/580/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 580 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/580/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 580 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/580/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **3–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bracy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-18** Filed `filing`
- **2019-11-01** Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-05** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 11/12/19, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 12/10/19, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2019-12-10** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2019-12-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-12-13** Now in Community Affairs
- **2020-01-06** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/13/20, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-13** CS/CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 3 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-01-14** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2020-01-16** Now in Rules
- **2020-01-22** CS/CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/05/20, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-05** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-02-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/13/20
- **2020-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-19** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-02-26** In Messages
- **2020-03-06** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
- **2020-03-06** Received
- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-10** 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. 2020-55

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5548b80c-2d2d-4af8-9120-38ab27275ee7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).