---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unlawful Demolition of Historical Buildings and Structures"
description: "Unlawful Demolition of Historical Buildings and Structures; Authorizing a code enforcement board or special magistrate to impose a fine that exceeds certain limits for the unlawful demolition of certain historical buildings or structures under certain circumstances; providing that such fine may not exceed a certain percentage of just market valuation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 582"
citation: "Florida SB 582 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-87"
primary_sponsors: ["Leek"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b226c20e-56c5-44c9-a901-a97e690103d8"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/582/ByCategory"
source_hash: "4bea5af7d92bb36da6d3cac05fec97b4c34abeeedcb37b70b1869efe7e7fa45b"
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 582 (2025) — Unlawful Demolition of Historical Buildings and Structures

Unlawful Demolition of Historical Buildings and Structures; Authorizing a code enforcement board or special magistrate to impose a fine that exceeds certain limits for the unlawful demolition of certain historical buildings or structures under certain circumstances; providing that such fine may not exceed a certain percentage of just market valuation, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-87.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 582 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/582/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 582 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/582/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Leek — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-20** Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-11** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 03/25/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-25** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/01/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-01** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** 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 (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **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** Passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-27** Chapter No. 2025-87

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b226c20e-56c5-44c9-a901-a97e690103d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).