---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern"
description: "Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern; Adding certain requirements to local comprehensive plans relating to a hurricane evacuation study; revising the powers of the land authority; excluding land designated as an area of critical state concern within a specified timeframe from award requirements made to specified sponsors or persons for the purpose of providing eligible housing as a part of a local housing assistance plan; requiring that the expenditure of certain funds be subject to approval by a majority vote of the board of county commissioners of an eligible county, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1456"
citation: "Florida SB 1456 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["municipalities", "reclamation", "and use", "relations", "social welfare", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-219"
primary_sponsors: ["Community Affairs", "Finance and Tax", "Rodriguez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07400c96-8eca-44a0-9286-4e9c7fdabf70"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1456/ByCategory"
source_hash: "05035d6cf62ae3749cc8d20bf3849c43aeb3c2dec4624719646c5c21e6d0b752"
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 1456 (2024) — Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern

Counties Designated as Areas of Critical State Concern; Adding certain requirements to local comprehensive plans relating to a hurricane evacuation study; revising the powers of the land authority; excluding land designated as an area of critical state concern within a specified timeframe from award requirements made to specified sponsors or persons for the purpose of providing eligible housing as a part of a local housing assistance plan; requiring that the expenditure of certain funds be subject to approval by a majority vote of the board of county commissioners of an eligible county, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-219.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1456 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1456/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1456 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1456/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1456 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1456/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1456 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1456/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Finance and Tax — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Community Affairs; Finance and Tax; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-02-01** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/06/24, 3:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-02-06** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-08** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-08** Now in Finance and Tax
- **2024-02-08** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2024-02-15** On Committee agenda-- Finance and Tax, 02/20/24, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2024-02-20** CS/CS by Finance and Tax; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-21** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-21** CS/CS by Finance and Tax read 1st time
- **2024-02-22** Now in Appropriations
- **2024-02-22** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/24, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-02-27** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/29/24
- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-31** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** Chapter No. 2024-219

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07400c96-8eca-44a0-9286-4e9c7fdabf70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).