---
type: "Bill"
title: "Affordable Housing"
description: "Affordable Housing; Authorizing the board of county commissioners and the governing board of a municipality, respectively, to approve the development of housing that is affordable, including mixed-use residential, on any parcel owned by religious institutions; requiring counties and municipalities to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential as allowable uses in portions of flexibly zoned areas under certain circumstances; prohibiting counties and municipalities from requiring that more than a specified percentage of a mixed-use residential project be used for certain purposes; providing that it is the policy of the state to support housing for certain employees and to allow developers in receipt of certain tax credits and funds to create a specified preference for housing certain employees, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1730"
citation: "Florida SB 1730 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil rights", "municipalities", "reclamation", "and use", "relations", "social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-172"
primary_sponsors: ["Calatayud"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cddb61f5-99c3-4696-89cd-b74150e4b971"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1730/ByCategory"
source_hash: "09e049f00ad30b2fbca48fdbcf2b2f53c5b46d70f40da5a4c6d76303d9567a51"
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 1730 (2025) — Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing; Authorizing the board of county commissioners and the governing board of a municipality, respectively, to approve the development of housing that is affordable, including mixed-use residential, on any parcel owned by religious institutions; requiring counties and municipalities to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential as allowable uses in portions of flexibly zoned areas under certain circumstances; prohibiting counties and municipalities from requiring that more than a specified percentage of a mixed-use residential project be used for certain purposes; providing that it is the policy of the state to support housing for certain employees and to allow developers in receipt of certain tax credits and funds to create a specified preference for housing certain employees, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-172.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1730 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1730/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1730 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1730/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1730 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1730/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1730 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1730/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1730 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1730/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 1730 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1730/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **105–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **109–3** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Calatayud — primary (person)
- Community Affairs — primary (organization)
- Rules — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-07** Referred to Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/31/25, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-31** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-02** Now in Rules
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/08/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-03** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2025-04-08** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-09** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-09** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/16/25
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Amendment(s) adopted (328892)
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment 030879 superseded by substitute
- **2025-04-29** Amendment 673693 adopted
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 109, NAYS 3 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In returning messages
- **2025-04-30** Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (172402)
- **2025-04-30** Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (673693)
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-05-01** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-01** Amendment 172402 Concur
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 105, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-24** Chapter No. 2025-172

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cddb61f5-99c3-4696-89cd-b74150e4b971`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).