---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing"
description: "Housing; Citing this act as the \"Live Local Act\"; deleting the authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents; providing an exemption from ad valorem taxation for land that meets certain criteria; authorizing local governments to adopt ordinances to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing meeting certain requirements; suspending, for a specified period, the General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax collections; authorizing the Governor, under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund, to approve state or local public infrastructure projects to facilitate the development or construction of affordable housing, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 102"
citation: "Florida SB 102 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)", "concurrent)", "public business", "public lands and property", "relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-17"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Calatayud"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a42bdbf-da71-4caa-a2d1-60e55c976039"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/102/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d2a4582fb63d1a6cf0e767038d12f8a1e2ea9db75de2a4767405bfdfe3c9a4f7"
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 SB 102 (2023) — Housing

Housing; Citing this act as the "Live Local Act"; deleting the authority of local governments to adopt or maintain laws, ordinances, rules, or other measures that would have the effect of imposing controls on rents; providing an exemption from ad valorem taxation for land that meets certain criteria; authorizing local governments to adopt ordinances to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for portions of property used to provide affordable housing meeting certain requirements; suspending, for a specified period, the General Revenue Fund service charge on documentary stamp tax collections; authorizing the Governor, under the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund, to approve state or local public infrastructure projects to facilitate the development or construction of affordable housing, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-17.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 102 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/102/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 102 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/102/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 102 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/102/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 102 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/102/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **103–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Calatayud — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Hooper — cosponsor (person)
- Osgood — cosponsor (person)
- Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
- Rouson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Community Affairs; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/08/23, 9:30 am, 401 Senate Building
- **2023-02-08** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-08** Now in Appropriations
- **2023-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/22/23, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-02-22** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2023-02-24** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-02-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/08/23
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** Amendment(s) adopted (141026, 887768)
- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Immediately certified
- **2023-03-09** In Messages
- **2023-03-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-03-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/23/2023)
- **2023-03-20** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-03-23** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 627
- **2023-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Amendment 032159 Failed
- **2023-03-23** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-24** CS passed; YEAS 103, NAYS 6 `passage`
- **2023-03-24** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-30** Chapter No. 2023-17

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a42bdbf-da71-4caa-a2d1-60e55c976039`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).