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type: "Bill"
title: "Payment for Construction Services"
description: "Payment for Construction Services; Increasing the interest rate for certain payments for purchases of construction services; specifying that a person, firm, or corporation who fails to make certain payments relating to public projects commits a misapplication of construction funds and is subject to criminal penalties; increasing the interest rate for overdue payments for the purchase of construction services; expanding the list of actions for which a licensee may be disciplined by the Construction Industry Licensing Board; requiring the board to suspend certain licenses for a minimum period of time under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 378"
citation: "Florida SB 378 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-124"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-22"
last_action: "2021-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66aef2ee-572c-4741-ac9f-afba38354e55"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/378/ByCategory"
source_hash: "42d3ad8ab2588e51882ecabb092260b228b96eb1a2ae5ff254fdc6694a50eef5"
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 378 (2021) — Payment for Construction Services
Payment for Construction Services; Increasing the interest rate for certain payments for purchases of construction services; specifying that a person, firm, or corporation who fails to make certain payments relating to public projects commits a misapplication of construction funds and is subject to criminal penalties; increasing the interest rate for overdue payments for the purchase of construction services; expanding the list of actions for which a licensee may be disciplined by the Construction Industry Licensing Board; requiring the board to suspend certain licenses for a minimum period of time under certain circumstances, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-124.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 378 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/378/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 378 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/378/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 378 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/378/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **60** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **90** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **170** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bradley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-12-22** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/26/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-01-26** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-27** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 02/17/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-02-17** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-22** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/18/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/01/21
- **2021-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-01** In Messages
- **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 1)
- **2021-04-23** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 585
- **2021-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-23** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-23** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-26** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-26** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-26** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-21** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-23** Chapter No. 2021-124
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66aef2ee-572c-4741-ac9f-afba38354e55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).