---
type: "Bill"
title: "Independent Living Services"
description: "Independent Living Services; Removing a provision requiring the Florida Independent Living Council to assist the Division of Blind Services of the Department of Education; requiring the council to coordinate with centers for independent living; prohibiting the council from engaging in certain activities; requiring the council to comply with state and federal laws and regulations relating to lobbying; increasing the percentage of certain revenues used to administer the James Patrick Memorial Work Incentive Personal Attendant Services and Employment Assistance Program, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 794"
citation: "Florida SB 794 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-78"
primary_sponsors: ["Bean"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5713a4b5-2a94-409b-b10c-a5c1f7fedd23"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/794/ByCategory"
source_hash: "13f4e95b8dc5876a946b42299d4a81fdc4b15a2c1eda5eb0f7bd5abca291c652"
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 794 (2021) — Independent Living Services

Independent Living Services; Removing a provision requiring the Florida Independent Living Council to assist the Division of Blind Services of the Department of Education; requiring the council to coordinate with centers for independent living; prohibiting the council from engaging in certain activities; requiring the council to comply with state and federal laws and regulations relating to lobbying; increasing the percentage of certain revenues used to administer the James Patrick Memorial Work Incentive Personal Attendant Services and Employment Assistance Program, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-78.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 794 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/794/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 794 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/794/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bean — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Education; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 03/16/21, 12:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-16** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Now in Education
- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Education, 03/30/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-30** Favorable by Education; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-04-12** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/15/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-14** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/19/21, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 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** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** Passed; 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 (Original Filed Version)
- **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** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-14** Chapter No. 2021-78

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5713a4b5-2a94-409b-b10c-a5c1f7fedd23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).