---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Records/Disaster Recovery Assistance"
description: "Public Records/Disaster Recovery Assistance; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for property photographs and personal identifying information provided to specified entities by certain persons for the purpose of disaster recovery assistance; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 966"
citation: "Florida SB 966 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-34"
primary_sponsors: ["Gainer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-11-18"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b99e423-bbac-4e3f-b681-a3676ea081c4"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/966/ByCategory"
source_hash: "762035081beb73413d0f364da22f7aabb4234c4b54ddaab78b044a1482514e8c"
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 966 (2020) — Public Records/Disaster Recovery Assistance

Public Records/Disaster Recovery Assistance; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for property photographs and personal identifying information provided to specified entities by certain persons for the purpose of disaster recovery assistance; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-34.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 966 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/966/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 966 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/966/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 966 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/966/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 966 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/966/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gainer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-18** Filed `filing`
- **2019-12-13** Referred to Infrastructure and Security; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 01/21/20, 4:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-21** Favorable by Infrastructure and Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-22** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2020-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 02/10/20, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-02-10** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-12** Now in Rules
- **2020-02-12** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2020-02-21** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-26** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** 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** Amendment(s) adopted (555754)
- **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 37 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. 2020-34

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b99e423-bbac-4e3f-b681-a3676ea081c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).