---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Business and Professional Regulation"
description: "Department of Business and Professional Regulation; Revises requirements for mold assessment and remediation & asbestos consultant's licenses; requires licensees & licensed agents to provide Division of Hotels & Restaurants with e-mail addresses at which they can be contacted; authorizes division to send notices & inspection reports by e-mail; revises guest register maintenance requirements for transient establishment operators; removes limitation on types of boxing exhibitions which require maximum difference in participant weights; authorizes Florida Building Commission to delay effective date of energy provisions of Florida Building Code; authorizes package stores to sell nicotine products; revises disclosure requirements for multisite timeshare plan public offering statements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 869"
citation: "Florida HB 869 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["alcoholic beverages and tobacco", "and solicitations", "real and personal property", "regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-211"
primary_sponsors: ["McClain"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 45
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-15"
last_action: "2023-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df7c2f6a-71b9-498b-bb5c-0bd42f43b36b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/869/ByCategory"
source_hash: "70f5ca798d40ee7acf11c601eea01081129f1178ffe2bb5e65b10531f9dffbf3"
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 869 (2023) — Department of Business and Professional Regulation

Department of Business and Professional Regulation; Revises requirements for mold assessment and remediation & asbestos consultant's licenses; requires licensees & licensed agents to provide Division of Hotels & Restaurants with e-mail addresses at which they can be contacted; authorizes division to send notices & inspection reports by e-mail; revises guest register maintenance requirements for transient establishment operators; removes limitation on types of boxing exhibitions which require maximum difference in participant weights; authorizes Florida Building Commission to delay effective date of energy provisions of Florida Building Code; authorizes package stores to sell nicotine products; revises disclosure requirements for multisite timeshare plan public offering statements.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-211.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 869 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/869/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 869 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/869/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 869 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/869/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 869 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/869/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- McClain — primary (person)
- State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-15** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2023-03-07** Added to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-07** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** Favorable by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-10** Reported out of Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2023-03-10** Now in State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2023-03-27** Added to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-29** Favorable with CS by State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-29** Reported out of State Administration & Technology Appropriations 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 Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-31** 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
- **2023-04-19** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-04-19** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-04-19** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/28/2023)
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 106, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-28** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-05-01** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2023-05-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-05-01** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 782
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2023-05-01** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-09** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-12** Chapter No. 2023-211

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df7c2f6a-71b9-498b-bb5c-0bd42f43b36b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).