---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Associations"
description: "Community Associations; Prohibiting insurance policies from providing specified rights of subrogation under certain circumstances; authorizing a condominium association to extinguish discriminatory restrictions; authorizing the board of administration of an association to take certain actions relating to electric vehicle charging stations and natural gas fuel stations; authorizing parties to initiate presuit mediation under certain circumstances; revising the allowable uses of certain escrow funds withdrawn by developers; authorizing certain developers to include reserves in the budget, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 630"
citation: "Florida SB 630 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance", "real and personal property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-99"
primary_sponsors: ["Baxley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e23a74ba-91a7-49e3-ad8f-1a0c9d8b2f1a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/630/ByCategory"
source_hash: "17b217dcab7fa429f31013b986ee30e66e4c0e1b9f7b9a94274da2ccba247f49"
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 630 (2021) — Community Associations

Community Associations; Prohibiting insurance policies from providing specified rights of subrogation under certain circumstances; authorizing a condominium association to extinguish discriminatory restrictions; authorizing the board of administration of an association to take certain actions relating to electric vehicle charging stations and natural gas fuel stations; authorizing parties to initiate presuit mediation under certain circumstances; revising the allowable uses of certain escrow funds withdrawn by developers; authorizing certain developers to include reserves in the budget, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-99.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 630 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/630/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 630 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/630/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 630 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/630/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 630 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/630/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 630 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/630/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **14–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Baxley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 02/16/21, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-16** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-18** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-18** Now in Community Affairs
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/16/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-16** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/31/21, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-31** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 14 NAYS 1
- **2021-03-31** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/07/21
- **2021-04-01** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Amendment(s) adopted (184346, 766830)
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 -SJ 373, 374 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-07** 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 (Engrossed 1)
- **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 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-17** Chapter No. 2021-99, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 56 (Ch. 2021-91), CS/CS/SB 1966 (Ch. 2021-135)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e23a74ba-91a7-49e3-ad8f-1a0c9d8b2f1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).