---
type: "Bill"
title: "Building Construction"
description: "Building Construction; Prohibiting local enforcing agencies from making or requiring substantive changes to plans or specifications after a permit has been issued; providing that a plans examiner, inspector, or building code administrator is subject to disciplinary action under certain circumstances; requiring local fire officials to provide certain information to a permit applicant if building plans do not comply with the Florida Fire Prevention Code or the Life Safety Code; prohibiting a municipality, county, or special district from making or requiring substantive changes to building plans after a permit has been issued, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 89"
citation: "Florida HB 89 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations", "insurance", "regulation of professions and occupations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-229"
primary_sponsors: ["Maggard"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 51
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-03"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74f54148-75d6-48b4-bb02-a4d8dbaab4d5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/89/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c02cffab0d67782b7ec696df8ff4d2bd22d832d0f7eb808feab923fefe85536c"
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 89 (2023) — Building Construction

Building Construction; Prohibiting local enforcing agencies from making or requiring substantive changes to plans or specifications after a permit has been issued; providing that a plans examiner, inspector, or building code administrator is subject to disciplinary action under certain circumstances; requiring local fire officials to provide certain information to a permit applicant if building plans do not comply with the Florida Fire Prevention Code or the Life Safety Code; prohibiting a municipality, county, or special district from making or requiring substantive changes to building plans after a permit has been issued, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-229.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 89 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/89/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 89 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/89/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 89 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/89/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 89 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/89/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 89 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/89/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **114–2** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Maggard — primary (person)
- Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Borrero — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-03** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** 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 with CS by Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-11** Reported out of Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
- **2023-03-11** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-11** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-14** Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Now in Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
- **2023-03-16** Added to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-03-20** Favorable by Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-20** Reported out of Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
- **2023-03-20** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2023-03-23** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2023-03-27** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2023-03-28** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-03-28** CS Filed `filing`
- **2023-03-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-03-29** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-13** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/18/2023)
- **2023-04-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-18** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** In Messages
- **2023-04-19** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** Received `enrolled`
- **2023-04-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2023-04-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-28** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 512
- **2023-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-28** Amendment(s) adopted (709506)
- **2023-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-28** In Messages
- **2023-05-03** Added to Senate Message List
- **2023-05-03** Amendment 709506 Concur
- **2023-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-229

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74f54148-75d6-48b4-bb02-a4d8dbaab4d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).