---
type: "Bill"
title: "School District Unimproved Real Property"
description: "School District Unimproved Real Property; Requiring school districts to annually submit complete inventories of unimproved real property owned by the district to the Department of Education; requiring the department to compile and publish such data in a statewide report, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 824"
citation: "Florida SB 824 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-122"
primary_sponsors: ["Truenow"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-09"
last_action: "2026-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfd4bbdb-ef38-4d6b-8d2f-b58a6ae1f146"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/824/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7da66fec1d38b0d9f23bc0724eff82a261a0ae9e72e345d300214b4e44085481"
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 824 (2026) — School District Unimproved Real Property

School District Unimproved Real Property; Requiring school districts to annually submit complete inventories of unimproved real property owned by the district to the Department of Education; requiring the department to compile and publish such data in a statewide report, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-122.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 824 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/824/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 824 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/824/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 824 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/824/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 824 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/824/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **28–9** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **22–2** (pass) · upper
- Returning Messages — **33–4** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **84–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Education Pre-K - 12 — primary (organization)
- Truenow — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-09** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-16** Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 02/03/26, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-03** CS by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-05** Original reference(s) removed: Community Affairs
- **2026-02-05** Remaining references corrected to Rules
- **2026-02-05** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-10** CS by Education Pre-K - 12 read 1st time
- **2026-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/17/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-17** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-18** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** CS passed; YEAS 28 NAYS 9 `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-19** In Messages
- **2026-03-05** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-05** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/9/2026)
- **2026-03-05** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-09** Amendment 211059 adopted
- **2026-03-09** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 84, NAYS 27 `passage`
- **2026-03-09** In returning messages
- **2026-03-11** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (211059)
- **2026-03-11** CS passed as amended; YEAS 33 NAYS 4 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-12** Chapter No. 2026-122

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfd4bbdb-ef38-4d6b-8d2f-b58a6ae1f146`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).