---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homeowners' Associations"
description: "Homeowners' Associations; Revises provisions relating to homeowners' associations including official records, fines & suspensions, attorney fees & costs, liens, & removing & reinstating certain officers & directors from office; prohibits certain funds from being commingled with association funds & requires certain accounting and remittance of funds within specified timeframe; provides criminal & civil penalties for actions by officers, directors, or managers of association & requires disclosures; provides criminal penalties for fraudulent voting activities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 919"
citation: "Florida HB 919 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)", "real and personal property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-228"
primary_sponsors: ["Fernandez-Barquin", "Porras"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 48
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8ed2890-0b51-4359-aaaf-343849f6cfb6"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/919/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e97cd3e53c25eab154cad66025721b934d68ad61f3293635c44196856773fe11"
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 919 (2023) — Homeowners' Associations

Homeowners' Associations; Revises provisions relating to homeowners' associations including official records, fines & suspensions, attorney fees & costs, liens, & removing & reinstating certain officers & directors from office; prohibits certain funds from being commingled with association funds & requires certain accounting and remittance of funds within specified timeframe; provides criminal & civil penalties for actions by officers, directors, or managers of association & requires disclosures; provides criminal penalties for fraudulent voting activities.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-228.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 919 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/919/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 919 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/919/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 919 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/919/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 919 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/919/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 919 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/919/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 919 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/919/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Amendment(s) (Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee) — **14–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Fernandez-Barquin — primary (person)
- Porras — primary (person)
- Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Arrington — cosponsor (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
- Borrero — cosponsor (person)
- Daniels — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- Killebrew — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)
- McClain — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Stark — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** 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** Original reference removed: Appropriations Committee
- **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`
- **2023-04-18** 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
- **2023-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Amendment 952151 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 1114
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Amendment(s) adopted (217604)
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** In Messages
- **2023-05-04** Added to Senate Message List
- **2023-05-04** Amendment 217604 Concur
- **2023-05-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-16** Chapter No. 2023-228

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8ed2890-0b51-4359-aaaf-343849f6cfb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).