---
type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and Trusts"
description: "Estates and Trusts; Requiring the court to allow an officer to elect to post and maintain a certain bond; providing that certain provisions of a will are void upon dissolution of marriage; specifying that a trust director submits to specified personal jurisdiction by accepting appointment as a trust director; creating the \"Community Property Trust Act\"; providing that certain property held in a community property trust qualifies as homestead property, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1070"
citation: "Florida SB 1070 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure", "domestic relations", "estates and trusts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-183"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c8ae933-e21b-420a-84c2-9b0e4a470162"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1070/ByCategory"
source_hash: "06e95d787b13aef3ca76ffc8b1d72b62d5e490e22aebbe204324dfddbd49f665"
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 1070 (2021) — Estates and Trusts

Estates and Trusts; Requiring the court to allow an officer to elect to post and maintain a certain bond; providing that certain provisions of a will are void upon dissolution of marriage; specifying that a trust director submits to specified personal jurisdiction by accepting appointment as a trust director; creating the "Community Property Trust Act"; providing that certain property held in a community property trust qualifies as homestead property, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-183.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1070 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1070/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1070 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1070/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1070 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1070/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1070 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1070/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1070 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1070/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-04** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-10** Referred to Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/22/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-22** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-24** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-24** Now in Community Affairs
- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/30/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-25** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2021-03-30** CS/CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-01** CS/CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2021-04-02** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-16** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Amendment(s) adopted (215478)
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-183

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c8ae933-e21b-420a-84c2-9b0e4a470162`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).