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Bill Home-based Businesses Home-based Businesses; Prohibiting local governments from taking certain actions relating to the licensure and regulation of home-based businesses; specifying conditions under which a business is considered a home-based business; authorizing home-based businesses to operate in areas zoned for residential use; specifying that home-based businesses are subject to certain business taxes; authorizing the prevailing party in such challenge to recover specified attorney fees and costs, etc. us/states/fl Florida Legislature 2021 HB 403 Florida HB 403 (2021)
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Florida HB 403 (2021) — Home-based Businesses

Home-based Businesses; Prohibiting local governments from taking certain actions relating to the licensure and regulation of home-based businesses; specifying conditions under which a business is considered a home-based business; authorizing home-based businesses to operate in areas zoned for residential use; specifying that home-based businesses are subject to certain business taxes; authorizing the prevailing party in such challenge to recover specified attorney fees and costs, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-202.

Version chain

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

  1. H 403 Filed (filed) — source
  2. H 403 c1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. H 403 e1 (engrossed) — source
  4. H 403 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Favorable (Regulatory Reform Subcommittee) — 106 (pass) · lower
  • Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — 148 (pass) · lower
  • Returning Messages — 1918 (pass) · upper
  • Third Reading — 2911 (pass) · upper
  • Passage, Third Reading — 7838 (pass) · lower
  • Passage — 7741 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Commerce Committee — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-25 Filed filing
  • 2021-02-08 Referred to Regulatory Reform Subcommittee referral-committee
  • 2021-02-08 Referred to Commerce Committee referral-committee
  • 2021-02-08 Now in Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
  • 2021-02-11 Added to Regulatory Reform Subcommittee agenda
  • 2021-02-18 Favorable by Regulatory Reform Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-02-18 Reported out of Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
  • 2021-02-18 Now in Commerce Committee
  • 2021-03-02 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  • 2021-03-05 Added to Commerce Committee agenda
  • 2021-03-09 Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee
  • 2021-03-10 Reported out of Commerce Committee
  • 2021-03-10 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
  • 2021-03-10 CS Filed
  • 2021-03-10 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
  • 2021-03-12 Bill referred to House Calendar
  • 2021-03-12 Added to Second Reading Calendar
  • 2021-03-25 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/31/2021)
  • 2021-03-31 Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
  • 2021-03-31 Added to Second Reading Calendar
  • 2021-04-15 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2021)
  • 2021-04-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2021-04-20 Placed on 3rd reading
  • 2021-04-20 Added to Third Reading Calendar
  • 2021-04-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-04-21 CS passed; YEAS 78, NAYS 38 passage
  • 2021-04-21 In Messages
  • 2021-04-21 Message sent to senate
  • 2021-04-21 Referred to Rules referral-committee
  • 2021-04-21 Received
  • 2021-04-28 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
  • 2021-04-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
  • 2021-04-28 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 266
  • 2021-04-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2021-04-28 Amendment(s) adopted (355386)
  • 2021-04-28 Placed on 3rd reading
  • 2021-04-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-04-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 29 NAYS 11 passage
  • 2021-04-29 In Messages
  • 2021-04-29 Amendment 493311 filed
  • 2021-04-29 Amendment 493311 withdrawn
  • 2021-04-29 Amendment 527003 filed
  • 2021-04-29 Added to Senate Message List
  • 2021-04-30 Added to Senate Message List
  • 2021-04-30 Amendment 527003 adopted
  • 2021-04-30 Concurred in Senate amendment 355386 as amended
  • 2021-04-30 CS passed as amended; YEAS 77, NAYS 41 passage
  • 2021-04-30 In returning messages
  • 2021-04-30 Message sent to senate
  • 2021-04-30 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (527003)
  • 2021-04-30 CS passed as amended; YEAS 19 NAYS 18 passage
  • 2021-04-30 In Messages
  • 2021-04-30 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
  • 2021-04-30 Requested House to return
  • 2021-06-28 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
  • 2021-06-29 Approved by Governor executive-signature
  • 2021-07-06 Chapter No. 2021-202; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 663 (Ch. 2021-211)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8593e237-cfe6-4e7b-8338-273db3ec425e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).