---
type: "Bill"
title: "Liability of Persons Providing Areas for Public Outdoor Recreational Purposes"
description: "Liability of Persons Providing Areas for Public Outdoor Recreational Purposes; Providing that owners may not be subject to liability if they are generating certain revenues and those revenues are used exclusively for specified purposes; expanding the applicability of the limitation of liability for persons who provide areas to the public for outdoor recreational purposes without charge, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 920"
citation: "Florida SB 920 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-56"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-28"
last_action: "2021-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db4b2c56-155d-48de-a059-a5ca7d237f3f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/920/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0660468a98f7bebf3011cd7132c7fa2c829772e59c234cd8f3387c0374963ab1"
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 920 (2021) — Liability of Persons Providing Areas for Public Outdoor Recreational Purposes

Liability of Persons Providing Areas for Public Outdoor Recreational Purposes; Providing that owners may not be subject to liability if they are generating certain revenues and those revenues are used exclusively for specified purposes; expanding the applicability of the limitation of liability for persons who provide areas to the public for outdoor recreational purposes without charge, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-56.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 920 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/920/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 920 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/920/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 920 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/920/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 920 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/920/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-28** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 02/15/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-02-15** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-16** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-18** Now in Judiciary
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/02/21, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-02** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-26** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-29** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/01/21
- **2021-03-30** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-01** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** Amendment 629927 filed
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-12** Amendment 629927 withdrawn
- **2021-04-13** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **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 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-04** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Chapter No. 2021-56

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db4b2c56-155d-48de-a059-a5ca7d237f3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).