---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rural Development"
description: "Rural Development; Requiring certain agency agreements to include a provision authorizing the agency to provide for the payment of specified invoices to certain counties or municipalities for certain verified and eligible performance; revising the percentages of total infrastructure project cost which the Department of Economic Opportunity may award through grants from the Rural Infrastructure Fund; revising authorized uses of eligible funds; authorizing the department to award grants up to a specified amount for specified planning and preparation activities; revising a provision that requires that awarded funds for specified surveys or other activities be matched with a specified amount of local funds, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1209"
citation: "Florida HB 1209 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["labor"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-202"
primary_sponsors: ["Shoaf"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 55
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-27"
last_action: "2023-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dffed0b1-29c8-459d-a14b-7d559035a8ea"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c779dd2dd06a34cea714c811fca262a61e9c007d8ae14a0025459cec8cedb6eb"
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 HB 1209 (2023) — Rural Development

Rural Development; Requiring certain agency agreements to include a provision authorizing the agency to provide for the payment of specified invoices to certain counties or municipalities for certain verified and eligible performance; revising the percentages of total infrastructure project cost which the Department of Economic Opportunity may award through grants from the Rural Infrastructure Fund; revising authorized uses of eligible funds; authorizing the department to award grants up to a specified amount for specified planning and preparation activities; revising a provision that requires that awarded funds for specified surveys or other activities be matched with a specified amount of local funds, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-202.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1209 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1209 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1209 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1209 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 1209 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/BillText/e1/PDF)
6. **H 1209 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/BillText/e2/PDF)
7. **H 1209 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1209/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Ways & Means Committee) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Shoaf — primary (person)
- Ways & Means Committee — primary (organization)
- Abbott — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Ways & Means Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-24** PCS added to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-29** Favorable with CS by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Reported out of Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2023-03-30** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-30** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-30** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-31** Referred to Ways & Means Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** Now in Ways & Means Committee
- **2023-04-10** PCS added to Ways & Means Committee agenda
- **2023-04-12** Favorable with CS by Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-12** Reported out of Ways & Means Committee
- **2023-04-13** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-13** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-13** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2023-04-13** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2023-04-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-18** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-19** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2023-04-20** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-20** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Amendment 157847 adopted
- **2023-04-25** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-25** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-02** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-02** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1482
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Amendment(s) adopted (440924)
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** In Messages
- **2023-05-04** Added to Senate Message List
- **2023-05-04** Amendment 440924 Concur
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-07** Chapter No. 2023-202

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dffed0b1-29c8-459d-a14b-7d559035a8ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).