---
type: "Bill"
title: "Natural Emergencies"
description: "Natural Emergencies; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from prohibiting temporary shelters on residential property for a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; requiring the Division of Emergency Management to post a model contract for debris removal on its website by a specified date; requiring the model contract to be annually updated by a specified date; requiring the division to administer a revolving loan fund for certain local government projects; increasing the timeframe to exercise rights under a permit or other authorization, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 250"
citation: "Florida SB 250 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(adopted)", "i", "military affairs and related matters", "public business"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-304"
primary_sponsors: ["Community Affairs", "Fiscal Policy", "Martin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-24"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e2824ee-fd49-40cd-bf94-c96198d392e5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/250/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d87dc20d9b15d1c4fcdffbb869aeda9a17a437866210bddc06334a2bb94701e5"
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 250 (2023) — Natural Emergencies

Natural Emergencies; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from prohibiting temporary shelters on residential property for a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; requiring the Division of Emergency Management to post a model contract for debris removal on its website by a specified date; requiring the model contract to be annually updated by a specified date; requiring the division to administer a revolving loan fund for certain local government projects; increasing the timeframe to exercise rights under a permit or other authorization, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-304.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 250 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/250/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 250 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/250/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 250 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/250/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 250 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/250/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 250 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/250/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 250 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/250/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **109–4** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Martin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-24** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-24** Referred to Community Affairs; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-10** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/15/23, 1:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2023-03-15** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-17** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2023-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/23/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-21** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2023-03-23** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-27** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-28** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2023-03-30** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/03/23
- **2023-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** Amendment(s) adopted (375396)
- **2023-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-05** In Messages
- **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 (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-25** Substituted for CS/HB 7057
- **2023-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Amendment 852423 Failed
- **2023-04-25** Amendment 791633 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 109, NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2023-04-26** In returning messages
- **2023-05-01** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (791633)
- **2023-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-28** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-29** Chapter No. 2023-304

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e2824ee-fd49-40cd-bf94-c96198d392e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).