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type: "Bill"
title: "Limitation of Liability for Voluntary Engineering or Architectural Services"
description: "Limitation of Liability for Voluntary Engineering or Architectural Services; Defining the term “structures specialist”; exempting engineers, architects, and structures specialists from liability for certain voluntary engineering or architectural services under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1060"
citation: "Florida SB 1060 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["torts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-102"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/298c795e-6bfa-4e17-9202-36f35b5ca7a7"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1060/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d3837c0402cabc0994b237a0c32348b196957d68218f3f5886462f9495c091ea"
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 1060 (2021) — Limitation of Liability for Voluntary Engineering or Architectural Services
Limitation of Liability for Voluntary Engineering or Architectural Services; Defining the term “structures specialist”; exempting engineers, architects, and structures specialists from liability for certain voluntary engineering or architectural services under certain circumstances, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-102.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1060 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1060/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1060 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1060/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1060 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1060/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1060 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1060/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1060 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1060/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **170** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1180** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bradley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-04** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-10** Referred to Judiciary; Regulated Industries; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/02/21, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-04** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-05** Now in Regulated Industries
- **2021-03-10** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/16/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-16** CS/CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-18** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-18** CS/CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2021-04-13** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/16/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-16** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/21/21
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Amendment(s) adopted (379306)
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** 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. 2021-102
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/298c795e-6bfa-4e17-9202-36f35b5ca7a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).