republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2021/hb-487.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Growth Management"
description: "Growth Management; Authorizing landowners with development orders existing before the incorporation of a municipality to elect to abandon such orders and develop the vested density and intensity contained therein under specified conditions; providing an exception to a prohibition against legal entities and their members exercising the power of eminent domain over or acquiring title to certain facilities or property; revising the required acreage thresholds for adopting an amendment using a small scale development amendment, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 487"
citation: "Florida HB 487 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-206"
primary_sponsors: ["Duggan", "Hardy"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 48
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-27"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8da58bf6-6e2a-482e-aa8b-8c683850d267"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/487/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8e4a452bff51349aa1cd33865ad21f20474aacaed4bec1df0f755d9b96b0fd5a"
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 487 (2021) — Growth Management

Growth Management; Authorizing landowners with development orders existing before the incorporation of a municipality to elect to abandon such orders and develop the vested density and intensity contained therein under specified conditions; providing an exception to a prohibition against legal entities and their members exercising the power of eminent domain over or acquiring title to certain facilities or property; revising the required acreage thresholds for adopting an amendment using a small scale development amendment, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-206.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 487 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/487/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 487 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/487/BillText/e1/PDF)
3. **H 487 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/487/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **103–9** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Commerce Committee) — **22–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — **17–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **106–10** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (State Affairs Committee) — **20–3** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Duggan — primary (person)
- Hardy — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-27** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Now in Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2021-03-01** Added to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-03** Favorable by Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** Reported out of Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2021-03-03** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-05** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2021-03-09** Favorable by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-10** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2021-03-15** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2021-03-17** Favorable by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2021-03-17** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-03-17** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-25** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/31/2021)
- **2021-03-26** Amendment 328233 filed
- **2021-03-31** Amendment 328233 withdrawn
- **2021-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-31** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-03-31** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** Passed; YEAS 103, NAYS 9 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-07** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-08** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Received
- **2021-04-26** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-26** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1274
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Amendment(s) adopted (477724, 899226)
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** In Messages
- **2021-04-29** Added to Senate Message List
- **2021-04-29** Amendment 477724 Concur
- **2021-04-29** Amendment 899226 Concur
- **2021-04-29** Passed as amended; YEAS 106, NAYS 10 `passage`
- **2021-04-29** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-04-29** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-206

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8da58bf6-6e2a-482e-aa8b-8c683850d267`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).