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Bill	Preemption Over Utility Service Restrictions	Preemption Over Utility Service Restrictions; Prohibits certain local governmental entities, subject to specified exceptions, from enacting or enforcing resolution, ordinance, rule, code, or policy or from taking any action that restricts or prohibits or has effect of restricting or prohibiting use of appliances.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2023	HB 1281	Florida HB 1281 (2023)	bill		enacted	2023-285	Buchanan	4	47	5	2023-03-01	2023-06-22	openstates	ocd-bill/27dd7fad-2e74-4b68-95f3-3d2a9e4b38c3	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1281/ByCategory	74c3492e49643e08467a289d32a80d6945434ba20b315fd9b23251148339f868	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 1281 (2023) — Preemption Over Utility Service Restrictions

Preemption Over Utility Service Restrictions; Prohibits certain local governmental entities, subject to specified exceptions, from enacting or enforcing resolution, ordinance, rule, code, or policy or from taking any action that restricts or prohibits or has effect of restricting or prohibiting use of appliances.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-285.

Version chain

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

1. H 1281 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 1281 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 1281 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 1281 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 98–16 (pass) · lower
• Favorable (Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee) — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee) — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 33–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)
• Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
• Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-01 Filed filing
• 2023-03-06 Referred to Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-03-06 Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-03-06 Referred to Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-06 Now in Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
• 2023-03-07 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2023-03-09 Added to Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-03-13 Favorable with CS by Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-14 Reported out of Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee
• 2023-03-14 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-03-14 CS Filed filing
• 2023-03-15 Referred to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-03-15 Referred to Commerce Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-15 Now in Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
• 2023-03-15 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2023-03-16 Added to Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-03-20 Favorable by Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-20 Reported out of Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee
• 2023-03-20 Now in Commerce Committee
• 2023-04-13 Added to Commerce Committee agenda
• 2023-04-18 Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-18 Reported out of Commerce Committee
• 2023-04-18 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-04-18 CS Filed filing
• 2023-04-19 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2023-04-19 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2023-04-19 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-20 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
• 2023-04-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-25 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2023-04-25 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-26 CS passed; YEAS 98, NAYS 16 passage
• 2023-04-26 In Messages
• 2023-04-26 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 Received enrolled
• 2023-04-28 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2023-04-28 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2023-04-28 Substituted for CS/SB 1256
• 2023-04-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-28 CS passed; YEAS 33 NAYS 4 passage
• 2023-04-28 In Messages
• 2023-04-28 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2023-06-12 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-06-22 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-06-22 Chapter No. 2023-285

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27dd7fad-2e74-4b68-95f3-3d2a9e4b38c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).