---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Loan Alternative Agreements"
description: "Residential Loan Alternative Agreements; Specifying restrictions on residential loan alternative agreements for the disposition of residential real property; prohibiting a court from enforcing such agreements by certain means; providing that such agreements are void if listing services do not begin within a certain timeframe; specifying penalties and remedies, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 770"
citation: "Florida SB 770 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-117"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley", "Commerce and Tourism", "Rules"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a43e837-2b14-43f7-a150-e11a50d999dd"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/770/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3b7735a508ab89b9e9363aac33ca7f62e9b267bd6868b0f29176e55086dfe8e2"
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 770 (2023) — Residential Loan Alternative Agreements

Residential Loan Alternative Agreements; Specifying restrictions on residential loan alternative agreements for the disposition of residential real property; prohibiting a court from enforcing such agreements by certain means; providing that such agreements are void if listing services do not begin within a certain timeframe; specifying penalties and remedies, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-117.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 770 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/770/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 770 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/770/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 770 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/770/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 770 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/770/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)
- Commerce and Tourism — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Filed `filing`
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Regulated Industries; Commerce and Tourism; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/14/23, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2023-03-14** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Now in Commerce and Tourism
- **2023-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/27/23, 3:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2023-03-27** CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2023-03-28** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-03-28** Now in Rules
- **2023-03-28** CS by Commerce and Tourism 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 19 NAYS 0
- **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** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-19** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-19** Immediately certified
- **2023-04-19** In Messages
- **2023-04-19** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-04-19** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2023)
- **2023-04-19** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2023-04-20** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/HB 861
- **2023-04-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-04-20** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-04-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-05-23** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-25** Chapter No. 2023-117

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a43e837-2b14-43f7-a150-e11a50d999dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).