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type: "Bill"
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title: "Emotional Support Animals"
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
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legislature: "Florida Legislature"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "SB 1084"
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citation: "Florida SB 1084 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["social welfare"]
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status: "enacted"
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chapter_law: "2020-76"
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primary_sponsors: ["Diaz"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 32
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2019-12-02"
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last_action: "2020-06-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47ec06f3-2252-4960-a52e-bfc966eb57ae"
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source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1084/ByCategory"
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source_hash: "92fd38ec8195105bb270eeee7f2ff615e2bda627c78c1b7ee1da31b4fb14aa57"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
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---
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# Florida SB 1084 (2020) — Emotional Support Animals
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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.
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**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-76.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **S 1084 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1084/BillText/Filed/HTML)
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2. **S 1084 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1084/BillText/e1/HTML)
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3. **S 1084 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1084/BillText/er/HTML)
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## Votes
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- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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- Favorable — **4–1** (pass) · upper
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- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
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- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Diaz — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-12-02** Filed `filing`
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- **2019-12-13** Referred to Agriculture; Innovation, Industry, and Technology; Rules `referral-committee`
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- **2020-01-09** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 01/14/20, 2:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
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- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
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- **2020-01-14** Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-01-15** Now in Innovation, Industry, and Technology
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- **2020-01-29** On Committee agenda-- Innovation, Industry, and Technology, 02/03/20, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building --Not Considered
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- **2020-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Innovation, Industry, and Technology, 02/10/20, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
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- **2020-02-10** Favorable by Innovation, Industry, and Technology; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-02-10** Now in Rules
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- **2020-02-14** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/19/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
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- **2020-02-19** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-02-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
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- **2020-02-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/20
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- **2020-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-26** Amendment(s) adopted (258916)
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- **2020-02-26** Ordered engrossed
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- **2020-02-26** Placed on 3rd reading
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- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-03** Passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2020-03-03** In Messages
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- **2020-03-06** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/09/20
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- **2020-03-06** Received
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- **2020-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-09** Placed on 3rd reading
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- **2020-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-10** Passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
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- **2020-03-10** Ordered enrolled
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- **2020-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
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- **2020-06-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2020-06-24** Chapter No. 2020-76
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47ec06f3-2252-4960-a52e-bfc966eb57ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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