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type: "Bill"
title: "Home-based Businesses"
description: "Home-based Businesses; Prohibiting local governments from taking certain actions relating to the licensure and regulation of home-based businesses; specifying conditions under which a business is considered a home-based business; authorizing home-based businesses to operate in areas zoned for residential use; specifying that home-based businesses are subject to certain business taxes; authorizing the prevailing party in such challenge to recover specified attorney fees and costs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 403"
citation: "Florida HB 403 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-202"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 57
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8593e237-cfe6-4e7b-8338-273db3ec425e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/403/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9dbd115fd50edaad9105fd159b4004d90bda7b8bfd97b28ef6aa9204620903e5"
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 403 (2021) — Home-based Businesses
Home-based Businesses; Prohibiting local governments from taking certain actions relating to the licensure and regulation of home-based businesses; specifying conditions under which a business is considered a home-based business; authorizing home-based businesses to operate in areas zoned for residential use; specifying that home-based businesses are subject to certain business taxes; authorizing the prevailing party in such challenge to recover specified attorney fees and costs, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-202.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 403 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/403/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 403 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/403/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 403 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/403/BillText/e1/PDF)
4. **H 403 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/403/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Favorable (Regulatory Reform Subcommittee) — **106** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **148** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **1918** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **2911** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **7838** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **7741** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-25** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Regulatory Reform Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Now in Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
- **2021-02-11** Added to Regulatory Reform Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-02-18** Favorable by Regulatory Reform Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-18** Reported out of Regulatory Reform Subcommittee
- **2021-02-18** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-05** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2021-03-09** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-10** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-10** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2021-03-10** CS Filed
- **2021-03-10** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-03-12** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-03-12** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/31/2021)
- **2021-03-31** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2021-03-31** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-15** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2021)
- **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 78, NAYS 38 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-21** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-21** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Received
- **2021-04-28** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-28** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-28** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 266
- **2021-04-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-28** Amendment(s) adopted (355386)
- **2021-04-28** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-29** CS passed as amended; YEAS 29 NAYS 11 `passage`
- **2021-04-29** In Messages
- **2021-04-29** Amendment 493311 filed
- **2021-04-29** Amendment 493311 withdrawn
- **2021-04-29** Amendment 527003 filed
- **2021-04-29** Added to Senate Message List
- **2021-04-30** Added to Senate Message List
- **2021-04-30** Amendment 527003 adopted
- **2021-04-30** Concurred in Senate amendment 355386 as amended
- **2021-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 77, NAYS 41 `passage`
- **2021-04-30** In returning messages
- **2021-04-30** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-30** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (527003)
- **2021-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 19 NAYS 18 `passage`
- **2021-04-30** In Messages
- **2021-04-30** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-04-30** Requested House to return
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-202; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 663 (Ch. 2021-211)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8593e237-cfe6-4e7b-8338-273db3ec425e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).