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type: "Bill"
title: "Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety"
description: "Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety; Revising and providing requirements for the driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle or other nonmotorized vehicle or an electric bicycle; providing exceptions; providing a penalty; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide an annual awareness and safety campaign regarding certain safety precautions; exempting a motor vehicle driver from certain provisions relating to no-passing zones when overtaking a bicycle or other nonmotorized vehicle or an electric bicycle; making a technical change; revising requirements for vehicles turning at intersections; prohibiting persons riding bicycles in a bicycle lane from riding more than two abreast, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 950"
citation: "Florida SB 950 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["banks and banking", "motor vehicles", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-180"
primary_sponsors: ["Book"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-29"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8539fa1d-d978-4b90-9f93-a5719a0b9550"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/950/ByCategory"
source_hash: "794c10e78fc9ad5c3c9ec6c17df1248a18eb2f81c9375e6906ca4557321dded9"
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 950 (2021) — Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety
Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety; Revising and providing requirements for the driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle or other nonmotorized vehicle or an electric bicycle; providing exceptions; providing a penalty; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide an annual awareness and safety campaign regarding certain safety precautions; exempting a motor vehicle driver from certain provisions relating to no-passing zones when overtaking a bicycle or other nonmotorized vehicle or an electric bicycle; making a technical change; revising requirements for vehicles turning at intersections; prohibiting persons riding bicycles in a bicycle lane from riding more than two abreast, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-180.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 950 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/950/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 950 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/950/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 950 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/950/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 950 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/950/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **170** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Book — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-29** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/30/21, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-30** CS by Transportation; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-01** CS by Transportation read 1st time
- **2021-04-02** Original reference(s) removed: Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations
- **2021-04-02** Remaining references corrected to Rules
- **2021-04-02** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-16** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Amendment(s) adopted (793004)
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-180
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8539fa1d-d978-4b90-9f93-a5719a0b9550`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).