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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Financial Services"
description: "Department of Financial Services; Requires State Risk Management Trust Fund to provide insurance for certain firefighter cancer-related benefits; prohibits unlicensed persons from acting as or advertising themselves as funeral directors, embalmers, direct disposers, or preneed sales agents unless they are so licensed; authorizes licensed funeral director interns & licensed combination funeral director & embalmer interns to continue performing certain tasks while transitioning to licensed funeral directors & licensed combination funeral director & embalmers; requires monument retailers to comply with specified requirements relating to place of business & operations; subjecting monument retailers to inspection; prohibits firesafety inspector from knowingly & intentionally requesting, soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept compensation offered to induce violation of certain codes, rules, or laws; provides that certain persons serving as volunteer firefighters may serve as regular or permanent firefighters for limited period; prohibits aiding or abetting of unlicensed activity of bail bond agent or temporary bail bond agent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1209"
citation: "Florida HB 1209 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations", "criminal procedure and corrections", "executive branch", "insurance", "ports and harbors"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-113"
primary_sponsors: ["Fetterhoff"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 51
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-22"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78cad670-b6bd-4e0d-a224-04ea85dfa41b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1209/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5c8730c11c38736c7c2e938b86fc8e196b2d1add98c31b04b5628f233dcf10e8"
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 HB 1209 (2021) — Department of Financial Services
Department of Financial Services; Requires State Risk Management Trust Fund to provide insurance for certain firefighter cancer-related benefits; prohibits unlicensed persons from acting as or advertising themselves as funeral directors, embalmers, direct disposers, or preneed sales agents unless they are so licensed; authorizes licensed funeral director interns & licensed combination funeral director & embalmer interns to continue performing certain tasks while transitioning to licensed funeral directors & licensed combination funeral director & embalmers; requires monument retailers to comply with specified requirements relating to place of business & operations; subjecting monument retailers to inspection; prohibits firesafety inspector from knowingly & intentionally requesting, soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept compensation offered to induce violation of certain codes, rules, or laws; provides that certain persons serving as volunteer firefighters may serve as regular or permanent firefighters for limited period; prohibits aiding or abetting of unlicensed activity of bail bond agent or temporary bail bond agent.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-113.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 1209 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1209/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1209 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1209/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1209 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1209/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1209 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1209/BillText/c3/PDF)
5. **H 1209 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1209/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **391** (pass) · upper
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **200** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — **170** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **140** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1190** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Fetterhoff — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-22** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-15** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-17** Favorable with CS by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-03-19** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-03-19** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-19** CS Filed
- **2021-03-22** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-22** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Now in State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-04-05** Added to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-04-07** Favorable with CS by State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-04-07** Reported out of State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-04-07** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-04-07** CS Filed
- **2021-04-07** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-09** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-09** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2021-04-12** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2021-04-14** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee
- **2021-04-14** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2021-04-15** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-04-15** CS Filed
- **2021-04-15** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2021)
- **2021-04-15** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3)
- **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 119, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-21** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-21** Received
- **2021-04-26** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-26** Substituted for CS/SB 1408
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-17** Chapter No. 2021-113; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 823 (Ch. 2021-110), CS/SB 286 (Ch. 2021-123)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78cad670-b6bd-4e0d-a224-04ea85dfa41b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).