---
type: "Bill"
title: "Affordable Housing"
description: "Affordable Housing; Revising the definitions of certain land use categories for which certain residential development may be authorized to exclude farms and farm operations and uses associated therewith, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 962"
citation: "Florida SB 962 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["municipalities", "relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-163"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-18"
last_action: "2026-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fd8a016-957b-4e8a-83c5-688b4811c757"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/962/ByCategory"
source_hash: "ca7069a9eb527cbd0790be0851804ded386c4d386c143bce669f331cae10afa6"
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 962 (2026) — Affordable Housing

Affordable Housing; Revising the definitions of certain land use categories for which certain residential development may be authorized to exclude farms and farm operations and uses associated therewith, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-163.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 962 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/962/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 962 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/962/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 962 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/962/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **109–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bradley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-18** Filed `filing`
- **2026-01-07** Referred to Community Affairs; Agriculture; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/27/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-27** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** Now in Agriculture
- **2026-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 02/03/26, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2026-02-03** Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/10/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2026-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/17/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-17** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 `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** Amendment(s) adopted (781508)
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-19** In Messages
- **2026-03-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- **2026-03-10** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** Passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-25** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-26** Chapter No. 2026-163

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fd8a016-957b-4e8a-83c5-688b4811c757`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).