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type: "Bill"
title: "Broadband Internet Infrastructure"
description: "Broadband Internet Infrastructure; Revising duties of the Florida Office of Broadband; providing an appropriation to the Department of Economic Opportunity for geographic information system broadband mapping; providing for administration of the program; providing requirements for grant awards; requiring the publication of certain information related to grant applications and grant awards on a website; requiring the office to publish specified information annually on its website; establishing a promotional rate and related terms for wireline attachments of broadband facilities to municipal electric utility poles; providing procedures and requirements for receiving the promotional rates; establishing cost responsibility for replacement utility poles in certain circumstances; prohibiting municipal electric utilities from increasing certain fees for pole attachments for a specified period, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1239"
citation: "Florida HB 1239 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ports and harbors", "railroads and other regulated utilities", "taxation and finance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-24"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 56
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-23"
last_action: "2021-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac8f8a9a-07ae-424b-991c-1999626f6462"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/ByCategory"
source_hash: "64e58711446209483815574861c32eb0ebfd433a553dd778da2d4ec2fbd1b9b0"
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 1239 (2021) — Broadband Internet Infrastructure
Broadband Internet Infrastructure; Revising duties of the Florida Office of Broadband; providing an appropriation to the Department of Economic Opportunity for geographic information system broadband mapping; providing for administration of the program; providing requirements for grant awards; requiring the publication of certain information related to grant applications and grant awards on a website; requiring the office to publish specified information annually on its website; establishing a promotional rate and related terms for wireline attachments of broadband facilities to municipal electric utility poles; providing procedures and requirements for receiving the promotional rates; establishing cost responsibility for replacement utility poles in certain circumstances; prohibiting municipal electric utilities from increasing certain fees for pole attachments for a specified period, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-24.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 1239 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1239 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1239 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1239 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 1239 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/BillText/e2/PDF)
6. **H 1239 e3** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/BillText/e3/PDF)
7. **H 1239 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1239/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **1150** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee) — **151** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Ways & Means Committee) — **151** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-23** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Ways & Means Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-28** Now in Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-18** Added to Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-22** Favorable by Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-22** Reported out of Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee
- **2021-03-22** Now in Ways & Means Committee
- **2021-04-06** Added to Ways & Means Committee agenda
- **2021-04-08** Favorable with CS by Ways & Means Committee
- **2021-04-09** Reported out of Ways & Means Committee
- **2021-04-09** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-04-09** CS Filed
- **2021-04-12** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-04-12** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-12** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2021-04-18** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2021-04-18** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2021-04-19** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee
- **2021-04-20** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2021-04-20** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-04-20** CS Filed
- **2021-04-20** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2021)
- **2021-04-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-21** Amendment 787463 filed
- **2021-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-23** Amendment 787463 adopted
- **2021-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-25** Amendment 311819 filed
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** Amendment 311819 adopted
- **2021-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-26** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Received
- **2021-04-27** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-27** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1592
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Amendment(s) adopted (767526)
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** In Messages
- **2021-04-28** Added to Senate Message List
- **2021-04-28** Amendment 767526 Concur
- **2021-04-28** CS passed as amended; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-05-07** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-05-07** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-11** Chapter No. 2021-24
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac8f8a9a-07ae-424b-991c-1999626f6462`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).