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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fireworks"
description: "Fireworks; Defining the term “designated holiday”; providing an exemption for the use of fireworks solely and exclusively during a designated holiday; prohibiting homeowners associations from promulgating certain rules or regulations, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 140"
citation: "Florida SB 140 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-11"
primary_sponsors: ["Hutson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-08-15"
last_action: "2020-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb1d80bd-a556-482b-a90c-fe7fb73f5906"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/140/ByCategory"
source_hash: "de3360db1f63af368a3ed28d71725c4164726306624166be01307c28603ab11c"
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 140 (2020) — Fireworks
Fireworks; Defining the term “designated holiday”; providing an exemption for the use of fireworks solely and exclusively during a designated holiday; prohibiting homeowners associations from promulgating certain rules or regulations, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-11.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 140 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/140/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 140 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/140/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 140 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/140/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 140 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/140/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 140 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/140/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 140 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/140/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **160** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **8234** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **60** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **40** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hutson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-08-15** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-03** Referred to Community Affairs; Banking and Insurance; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-28** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 11/04/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2019-11-04** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 4 NAYS 0
- **2019-11-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-11-06** Now in Banking and Insurance
- **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 12/10/19, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2019-12-10** CS/CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2019-12-12** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2019-12-13** Now in Rules
- **2020-01-10** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/15/20, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2020-01-14** CS/CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2020-01-15** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-15** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-01-17** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-01-22** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (918342)
- **2020-03-06** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 82 NAYS 34 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-04-08** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-04-08** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-09** Chapter No. 2020-11
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb1d80bd-a556-482b-a90c-fe7fb73f5906`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).