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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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enacted | 2021-202 | 4 | 57 | 6 | 2021-01-25 | 2021-07-06 | openstates | ocd-bill/8593e237-cfe6-4e7b-8338-273db3ec425e | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/403/ByCategory | 9dbd115fd50edaad9105fd159b4004d90bda7b8bfd97b28ef6aa9204620903e5 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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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.
- H 403 Filed (filed) — source
- H 403 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- H 403 e1 (engrossed) — source
- H 403 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Favorable (Regulatory Reform Subcommittee) — 10–6 (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — 14–8 (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — 19–18 (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — 29–11 (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — 78–38 (pass) · lower
- Passage — 77–41 (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).