---
type: "Bill"
title: "Affordable Housing"
description: "Affordable Housing; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the floor area ratio of certain proposed developments under certain circumstances; authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to restrict the height of proposed developments under certain circumstances; requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to maintain a certain policy on their websites; revising conditions for when multifamily projects are considered property used for a charitable purpose and are eligible to receive an ad valorem property tax exemption, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 328"
citation: "Florida SB 328 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["appropriations", "aviation", "municipalities", "relations", "social welfare", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-188"
primary_sponsors: ["Calatayud", "Community Affairs", "Fiscal Policy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16d67baa-7de6-47e1-be5d-be5a92ce234d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/328/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5f1890482c7753067bc9cc26832d51a95616df3aa799fdbbf31fb70b14100cf4"
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 328 (2024) — Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing; Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the floor area ratio of certain proposed developments under certain circumstances; authorizing counties and municipalities, respectively, to restrict the height of proposed developments under certain circumstances; requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to maintain a certain policy on their websites; revising conditions for when multifamily projects are considered property used for a charitable purpose and are eligible to receive an ad valorem property tax exemption, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-188.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 328 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/328/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 328 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/328/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 328 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/328/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 328 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/328/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 328 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/328/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Calatayud — primary (person)
- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Osgood — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-04** Referred to Community Affairs; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/09/24, 4:30 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-09** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-10** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-10** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2024-01-11** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-01-12** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/18/24, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2024-01-26** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/31/24, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-01-31** CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-01** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/07/24
- **2024-02-01** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2024-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07** Amendment(s) adopted (155140, 204708)
- **2024-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-07** In Messages
- **2024-02-22** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/27/2024)
- **2024-02-22** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 1239
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-05-07** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Chapter No. 2024-188, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7073 (Ch. 2024-158)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16d67baa-7de6-47e1-be5d-be5a92ce234d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).