---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Regulation of Nonconforming and Unsafe Structures"
description: "Local Regulation of Nonconforming and Unsafe Structures; Designating the “Resiliency and Safe Structures Act”; prohibiting local governments from prohibiting, restricting, or preventing the demolition of certain structures and buildings unless necessary for public safety; prohibiting local governments from imposing additional local land development regulations or public hearings on permit applicants; requiring a local government to authorize replacement structures to be developed in accordance with certain regulations, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1526"
citation: "Florida SB 1526 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-21"
primary_sponsors: ["Avila", "Environment and Natural Resources"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12cec845-9ed7-4072-b89f-4bc2522b4063"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1526/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2495b7f19617d024fd5f6ce315e9d116c603e79607cc982d0362fe4229cf3872"
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 1526 (2024) — Local Regulation of Nonconforming and Unsafe Structures

Local Regulation of Nonconforming and Unsafe Structures; Designating the “Resiliency and Safe Structures Act”; prohibiting local governments from prohibiting, restricting, or preventing the demolition of certain structures and buildings unless necessary for public safety; prohibiting local governments from imposing additional local land development regulations or public hearings on permit applicants; requiring a local government to authorize replacement structures to be developed in accordance with certain regulations, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-21.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1526 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1526/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1526 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1526/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1526 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1526/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **86–29** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- A - 535587, Adoption, Second Reading — **40–64** (fail) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Avila — primary (person)
- Environment and Natural Resources — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Community Affairs; Environment and Natural Resources; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-11** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/16/24, 11:00 am, 401 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2024-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/22/24, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-01-22** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-23** Now in Environment and Natural Resources
- **2024-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 01/30/24, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2024-01-30** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 5 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-01** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-01** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2024-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/14/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-14** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Amendment(s) failed (346340)
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-02-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/5/2024)
- **2024-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 535587 Failed
- **2024-03-05** Amendment 981975 Failed
- **2024-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** CS passed; YEAS 86, NAYS 29 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-19** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-22** Chapter No. 2024-21

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12cec845-9ed7-4072-b89f-4bc2522b4063`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).