republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2018/sb-394.md

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Bill	Fire Safety	Fire Safety	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2018	SB 394	Florida SB 394 (2018)	bill	fire prevention and control continuing care retirement communities taxation	enacted	2018-18	Bracy	3	30	5	2017-10-03	2018-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/ed30c001-bb8d-434d-98a0-880082d6da9a	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/00394/ByCategory	0e6e2ece13e63ca209c49817a876f51af28f8d8cb22e183ae6999f1804da4a4e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 394 (2018) — Fire Safety

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2018-18.

Version chain

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

1. S 394 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 394 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 394 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 114–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bracy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-10-03 Filed filing
• 2017-10-25 Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Health Policy; Rules referral-committee
• 2018-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2018-01-18 On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/23/18, 3:30 pm, 401 Senate Office Building
• 2018-01-23 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
• 2018-01-24 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2018-01-24 CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
• 2018-01-26 Now in Health Policy
• 2018-02-01 On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 02/06/18, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2018-02-06 Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-06 Now in Rules
• 2018-02-19 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/22/18, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Office Building
• 2018-02-22 Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-22 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2018-02-27 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/18
• 2018-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-01 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2018-03-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-02 CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 passage
• 2018-03-02 In Messages
• 2018-03-04 Referred to Calendar referral-committee
• 2018-03-04 Received
• 2018-03-05 Substituted for CS/HB 309
• 2018-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-05 CS passed; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 passage
• 2018-03-05 Ordered enrolled
• 2018-03-12 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2018-03-19 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2018-03-21 Chapter No. 2018-18

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed30c001-bb8d-434d-98a0-880082d6da9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).