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Bill	Emotional Support Animals	Emotional Support Animals; Defining the terms “emotional support animal” and “housing provider”; prohibiting discrimination in housing provided to a person with a disability or a disability-related need for an emotional support animal; prohibiting a health care practitioner from providing information regarding a person’s need for an emotional support animal without having personal knowledge of that person’s need for the animal; prohibiting the falsification of information or other fraudulent misrepresentation regarding the use of an emotional support animal, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 1084	Florida SB 1084 (2020)	bill	social welfare	enacted	2020-76	Diaz	3	32	5	2019-12-02	2020-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/47ec06f3-2252-4960-a52e-bfc966eb57ae	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1084/ByCategory	92fd38ec8195105bb270eeee7f2ff615e2bda627c78c1b7ee1da31b4fb14aa57	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 1084 (2020) — Emotional Support Animals

Emotional Support Animals; Defining the terms “emotional support animal” and “housing provider”; prohibiting discrimination in housing provided to a person with a disability or a disability-related need for an emotional support animal; prohibiting a health care practitioner from providing information regarding a person’s need for an emotional support animal without having personal knowledge of that person’s need for the animal; prohibiting the falsification of information or other fraudulent misrepresentation regarding the use of an emotional support animal, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-76.

Version chain

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

1. S 1084 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 1084 e1 (engrossed) — source
3. S 1084 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Diaz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-02 Filed filing
• 2019-12-13 Referred to Agriculture; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 01/14/20, 2:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-14 Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-15 Now in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
• 2020-01-29 On Committee agenda-- Innovation, Industry, and Technology, 02/03/20, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Not Considered
• 2020-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Innovation, Industry, and Technology, 02/10/20, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-02-10 Favorable by Innovation, Industry, and Technology; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-10 Now in Rules
• 2020-02-14 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/19/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-02-19 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-19 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-02-20 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
• 2020-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-26 Amendment(s) adopted (258916)
• 2020-02-26 Ordered engrossed
• 2020-02-26 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-03 Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-03 In Messages
• 2020-03-06 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2020-03-06 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
• 2020-03-06 Received
• 2020-03-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-09 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-10 Passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-10 Ordered enrolled
• 2020-06-15 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2020-06-23 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2020-06-24 Chapter No. 2020-76

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47ec06f3-2252-4960-a52e-bfc966eb57ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).