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type: "Bill"
title: "Telephone Solicitation"
description: "Telephone Solicitation; Prohibiting certain telephonic sales calls without the prior express written consent of the called party; removing provisions authorizing the use of certain automated telephone dialing systems; providing a cause of action for aggrieved called parties; prohibiting a commercial telephone seller or salesperson from using automated dialing or recorded messages to make certain commercial telephone solicitation phone calls, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1120"
citation: "Florida SB 1120 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-185"
primary_sponsors: ["Gibson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-08"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ba0e6d1-d4ec-483c-bf9e-adc2b6316f6d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1120/ByCategory"
source_hash: "10f1e7d3b4b1dc89223b2476011df5f796e31d68320053ecd5d094b959973cc0"
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 1120 (2021) — Telephone Solicitation
Telephone Solicitation; Prohibiting certain telephonic sales calls without the prior express written consent of the called party; removing provisions authorizing the use of certain automated telephone dialing systems; providing a cause of action for aggrieved called parties; prohibiting a commercial telephone seller or salesperson from using automated dialing or recorded messages to make certain commercial telephone solicitation phone calls, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-185.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1120 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1120/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1120 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1120/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1120 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1120/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1120 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1120/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **160** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **110** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gibson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-08** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Regulated Industries; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-04** On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/09/21, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-09** Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Now in Regulated Industries
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/23/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-23** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-25** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-25** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-25** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-20** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-20** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Amendment(s) adopted (826808)
- **2021-04-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-22** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-22** 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 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-185
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ba0e6d1-d4ec-483c-bf9e-adc2b6316f6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).