---
type: "Bill"
title: "Duties of the Attorney General"
description: "Duties of the Attorney General; Relieving the Department of Legal Affairs from certain duties associated with specified neighborhood improvement districts; repealing a provision relating to the Safe Neighborhoods Program; repealing a provision relating to the duties of the Department of Legal Affairs; authorizing certain declarations during a state of emergency to be extended by executive order, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1040"
citation: "Florida SB 1040 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations", "criminal procedure and corrections", "executive branch", "reclamation", "and use", "relations", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-131"
primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3beb9a1a-fba8-4caf-a1f2-84952f5cdafa"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1040/ByCategory"
source_hash: "eab543c870fa4c22971730ee2823ce1bd06c54efc236ef83bd29428b963cba04"
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 1040 (2021) — Duties of the Attorney General

Duties of the Attorney General; Relieving the Department of Legal Affairs from certain duties associated with specified neighborhood improvement districts; repealing a provision relating to the Safe Neighborhoods Program; repealing a provision relating to the duties of the Department of Legal Affairs; authorizing certain declarations during a state of emergency to be extended by executive order, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-131.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1040 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1040/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1040 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1040/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1040 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1040/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1040 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1040/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brodeur — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-10** Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Original reference(s)- removed: Judiciary
- **2021-03-01** References corrected to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations
- **2021-03-01** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-05** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/10/21, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-10** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-11** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2021-03-12** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/17/21, 3:00 pm, 37 Senate Building --Not Received
- **2021-03-12** Original reference(s) removed: Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
- **2021-03-12** Remaining references corrected to Appropriations; Rules
- **2021-03-12** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/18/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-18** CS/CS by Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-22** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-22** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-23** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-03-25** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/01/21
- **2021-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-01** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-131

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3beb9a1a-fba8-4caf-a1f2-84952f5cdafa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).