---
type: "Bill"
title: "Florida Housing Finance Corporation"
description: "Florida Housing Finance Corporation; Defining the terms “bona fide contract” and “qualified contract” for purposes of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation Act; deleting certain limitations and restrictions on, and requirements for, loans made by the corporation to sponsors of housing for the elderly under the State Apartment Incentive Loan Program; designating the corporation, rather than the State Board of Administration, as the state fiscal agency to make determinations in connection with specified bonds; providing construction relating to low-income tax credit developments if a qualified contract does not close for specified reasons, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 196"
citation: "Florida SB 196 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-194"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Rodriguez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-09-14"
last_action: "2022-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2173a80c-de9c-43e4-83a2-09c6830d9ff2"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/196/ByCategory"
source_hash: "560bbb3c60d0706b76c86aa65f43cd03939de1ae3be5ce38377cba92b9cf1f6a"
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 196 (2022) — Florida Housing Finance Corporation

Florida Housing Finance Corporation; Defining the terms “bona fide contract” and “qualified contract” for purposes of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation Act; deleting certain limitations and restrictions on, and requirements for, loans made by the corporation to sponsors of housing for the elderly under the State Apartment Incentive Loan Program; designating the corporation, rather than the State Board of Administration, as the state fiscal agency to make determinations in connection with specified bonds; providing construction relating to low-income tax credit developments if a qualified contract does not close for specified reasons, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-194.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 196 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/196/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 196 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/196/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 196 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/196/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-14** Filed `filing`
- **2021-09-21** Referred to Community Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-25** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 11/03/21, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-11-03** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-11-03** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-28** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 02/02/22, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-02-02** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 6 NAYS 4
- **2022-02-04** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-28** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2022-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-02** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-03** In Messages
- **2022-03-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
- **2022-03-07** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 796083 adopted
- **2022-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-10** In returning messages
- **2022-03-10** Refused to concur in 1 amendment(s) (796083)
- **2022-03-10** Requested House to recede
- **2022-03-10** In Messages
- **2022-03-10** Added to Senate Message List
- **2022-03-10** Amendment 796083 Recede
- **2022-03-10** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-21** Chapter No. 2022-194

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2173a80c-de9c-43e4-83a2-09c6830d9ff2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).