---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Development Projects for Affordable Housing"
description: "Residential Development Projects for Affordable Housing; Authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to approve any residential development project on parcels zoned for commercial or industrial use if certain conditions are met, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 962"
citation: "Florida SB 962 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-176"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley", "Rules", "Transportation"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-11-17"
last_action: "2022-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ae7d6ae-05a7-43ba-8d07-000798b9f4e9"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/962/ByCategory"
source_hash: "370300047c624948f113594e48c649c212a268364c67b270536fde742863f2d1"
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 962 (2022) — Residential Development Projects for Affordable Housing

Residential Development Projects for Affordable Housing; Authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to approve any residential development project on parcels zoned for commercial or industrial use if certain conditions are met, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-176.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 962 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/962/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 962 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/962/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 962 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/962/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 962 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/962/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 962 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/962/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **15–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Transportation — primary (person)
- Taddeo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-17** Filed `filing`
- **2021-11-30** Referred to Community Affairs; Transportation; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-07** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/12/22, 9:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-12** Now in Transportation
- **2022-01-20** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 01/25/22, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-01-25** CS by Transportation; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2022-01-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-27** Now in Rules
- **2022-01-27** CS by Transportation read 1st time
- **2022-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/03/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-03** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 1
- **2022-02-04** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-02-07** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/10/22
- **2022-02-09** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2022-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Amendment(s) adopted (163574)
- **2022-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-10** In Messages
- **2022-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
- **2022-02-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-03** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 981
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-08** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-09** Chapter No. 2022-176

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ae7d6ae-05a7-43ba-8d07-000798b9f4e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).