---
type: "Bill"
title: "Affordable Housing"
description: "Affordable Housing; Requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential uses as allowable uses for specified property; providing requirements for certain proposed developments; prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the height of certain proposed developments through other dimensional means and from requiring certain setbacks or stepbacks; requiring counties and municipalities to allow certain applicants to submit revised applications, written requests, and notices of intent to account for changes made by the act; .; authorizing a local government to provide a density bonus incentive to landowners who make certain real property donations to assist in the provision of affordable housing for military families; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to evaluate the efficacy of using mezzanine finance and the potential of tiny homes for specified purposes, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1389"
citation: "Florida HB 1389 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["aviation", "civil rights", "municipalities", "relations", "social welfare", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-179"
primary_sponsors: ["Redondo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 55
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-01-09"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1de70db2-dc4d-44a0-8f74-368debf7e81f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1389/ByCategory"
source_hash: "624d58afd42abbf942aa16864db0c3572ee8bb1110d2b428adb1c3f1395db898"
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 HB 1389 (2026) — Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing; Requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential uses as allowable uses for specified property; providing requirements for certain proposed developments; prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the height of certain proposed developments through other dimensional means and from requiring certain setbacks or stepbacks; requiring counties and municipalities to allow certain applicants to submit revised applications, written requests, and notices of intent to account for changes made by the act; .; authorizing a local government to provide a density bonus incentive to landowners who make certain real property donations to assist in the provision of affordable housing for military families; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to evaluate the efficacy of using mezzanine finance and the potential of tiny homes for specified purposes, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-179.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1389 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1389/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1389 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1389/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1389 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1389/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1389 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1389/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1389 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/1389/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage — **98–4** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **18–5** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **76–29** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee) — **13–2** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Redondo — primary (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Nix — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-09** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-13** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-01-15** Referred to Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-15** Now in Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
- **2026-02-09** Added to Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee agenda
- **2026-02-11** Favorable with CS by Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-12** Reported out of Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
- **2026-02-12** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2026-02-12** CS Filed `filing`
- **2026-02-13** Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13** Now in Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- **2026-02-13** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-02-16** Added to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee agenda
- **2026-02-18** Favorable by Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Reported out of Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
- **2026-02-18** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2026-02-20** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2026-02-24** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-25** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2026-02-25** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2026-02-25** CS Filed `filing`
- **2026-02-25** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-02-25** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2026-02-26** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2026)
- **2026-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** CS passed; YEAS 76, NAYS 29 `passage`
- **2026-03-04** In Messages
- **2026-03-04** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04** Received `enrolled`
- **2026-03-06** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2026-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-03-06** Substituted for SB 1548
- **2026-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (668106)
- **2026-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 34 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-06** In Messages
- **2026-03-12** Added to Senate Message List
- **2026-03-12** Amendment 680391 adopted
- **2026-03-12** Concurred in Senate amendment 668106 as amended
- **2026-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 98, NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** In returning messages
- **2026-03-13** Concurred in House amendment(s) to Senate amendment(s) (680391)
- **2026-03-13** CS passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-13** In Messages
- **2026-03-13** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-26** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter No. 2026-179

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1de70db2-dc4d-44a0-8f74-368debf7e81f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).