---
type: "Bill"
title: "Disaster Relief"
description: "Disaster Relief; Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to waive or reduce match requirements for certain local governments; authorizing the refund of ad valorem taxes for residential improvements rendered uninhabitable by certain hurricanes; providing for the extension and suspension of payments and discounts of certain taxes and assessments; requiring the Division of Emergency Management and local governments to enter into certain agreements to receive specified funds; providing for the organization and operation of the Florida Emergency Management Assistance Foundation within the division, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022A"
identifier: "SB 4A"
citation: "Florida SB 4A (2022A)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "military affairs and related matters", "public officers", "employees", "and records", "relations", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-272"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-12-09"
last_action: "2022-12-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36e7facb-24cb-4ed1-9352-7565f59e5e38"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022A/4A/ByCategory"
source_hash: "a973229f53571f842fecf88319fcc94dad35a0cc91ead39e747a3703695f82b1"
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 4A (2022A) — Disaster Relief

Disaster Relief; Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to waive or reduce match requirements for certain local governments; authorizing the refund of ad valorem taxes for residential improvements rendered uninhabitable by certain hurricanes; providing for the extension and suspension of payments and discounts of certain taxes and assessments; requiring the Division of Emergency Management and local governments to enter into certain agreements to receive specified funds; providing for the organization and operation of the Florida Emergency Management Assistance Foundation within the division, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-272.

## Version chain

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

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

## Votes

- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-09** Filed `filing`
- **2022-12-09** Referred to Community Affairs; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2022-12-09** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 12/12/22, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-12-12** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-12-12** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2022-12-12** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 12/12/22, 3:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-12-12** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-12-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-12-12** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 12/13/22
- **2022-12-12** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-12-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-12-13** Amendment(s) adopted (541526)
- **2022-12-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-12-13** Passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-12-13** In Messages
- **2022-12-13** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-12-13** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (12/14/2022)
- **2022-12-13** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2022-12-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-12-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-12-14** Passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-12-14** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2022-12-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-12-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-12-16** Chapter No. 2022-272

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36e7facb-24cb-4ed1-9352-7565f59e5e38`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).