---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Financing Product Brokers and Providers"
description: "Commercial Financing Product Brokers and Providers; Requires providers that consummate commercial financing transactions to provide specified written disclosures; prohibits brokers from taking specified actions; provides exclusive authority of Attorney General to enforce specified provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1353"
citation: "Florida HB 1353 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-290"
primary_sponsors: ["Bankson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-03-02"
last_action: "2023-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d92f0e25-bfc5-483a-ac07-4cd5d274cd6a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1353/ByCategory"
source_hash: "fba9d03be5624cbf506a01d256d497b07a644d4ee0eece6b452d75f8e42b6032"
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 1353 (2023) — Commercial Financing Product Brokers and Providers

Commercial Financing Product Brokers and Providers; Requires providers that consummate commercial financing transactions to provide specified written disclosures; prohibits brokers from taking specified actions; provides exclusive authority of Attorney General to enforce specified provisions.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-290.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1353 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1353/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1353 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1353/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1353 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1353/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 1353 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1353/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Justice Appropriations Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bankson — primary (person)
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-02** Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2023-03-23** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-27** Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2023-03-27** Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-04-06** Added to Justice Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-04-11** Favorable by Justice Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-11** Reported out of Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-04-11** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2023-04-13** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **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 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Amendment 111597 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 113, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In Messages
- **2023-04-26** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-03** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-03** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1624
- **2023-05-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-03** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** In Messages
- **2023-05-04** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-26** Chapter No. 2023-290

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d92f0e25-bfc5-483a-ac07-4cd5d274cd6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).