---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government Comprehensive Plans"
description: "Local Government Comprehensive Plans; Providing that the prevailing party in a challenge to a plan or plan amendment is entitled to recover attorney fees and costs; providing that the prevailing party in a challenge to the compliance of a small scale development order is entitled to recover attorney fees and costs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 540"
citation: "Florida SB 540 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-115"
primary_sponsors: ["DiCeglie", "Judiciary", "Rules"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81e49d6e-55ae-4a74-a5e5-c8de65d178f9"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/540/ByCategory"
source_hash: "05c06af1fbe879305859a83ed049c96fdd22c638713b4339010779fdbf42f100"
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 540 (2023) — Local Government Comprehensive Plans

Local Government Comprehensive Plans; Providing that the prevailing party in a challenge to a plan or plan amendment is entitled to recover attorney fees and costs; providing that the prevailing party in a challenge to the compliance of a small scale development order is entitled to recover attorney fees and costs, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-115.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 540 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/540/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 540 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/540/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 540 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/540/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 540 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/540/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–3** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **87–30** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **13–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiCeglie — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-16** Referred to Community Affairs; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/22/23, 11:00 am, 401 Senate Building
- **2023-03-22** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** Now in Judiciary
- **2023-03-24** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/29/23, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-03-29** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 8 NAYS 3
- **2023-03-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-31** Now in Rules
- **2023-03-31** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2023-04-06** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/11/23, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-04-11** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 13 NAYS 5
- **2023-04-12** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-04-12** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-04-13** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/19/23
- **2023-04-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-19** Amendment(s) failed (618462)
- **2023-04-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 29 NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-19** In Messages
- **2023-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/1/2023)
- **2023-04-28** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Amendment 405461 Failed
- **2023-05-01** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 87, NAYS 30 `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-25** Chapter No. 2023-115

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81e49d6e-55ae-4a74-a5e5-c8de65d178f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).