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type: "Bill"
title: "Local Ordinances"
description: "Local Ordinances; Authorizing courts to assess and award reasonable attorney fees and costs and damages in certain civil actions filed against local governments; providing certain procedures for continued meetings on proposed ordinances and resolutions for counties; requiring a county to suspend enforcement of an ordinance that is the subject of a certain legal action if certain conditions are met; providing certain procedures for continued meetings on proposed ordinances for municipalities, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 170"
citation: "Florida SB 170 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["alcoholic beverages and tobacco", "civil practice and procedure", "concurrent)", "reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2023-309"
primary_sponsors: ["Community Affairs", "Rules", "Trumbull"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 53
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-24"
last_action: "2023-07-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee4fe728-4962-4514-a2b3-73b3b9fbd541"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/170/ByCategory"
source_hash: "80ebbc1efcaadabe32824fae754cb15b846335bb9a1df65dfedc9e296d711587"
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 170 (2023) — Local Ordinances
Local Ordinances; Authorizing courts to assess and award reasonable attorney fees and costs and damages in certain civil actions filed against local governments; providing certain procedures for continued meetings on proposed ordinances and resolutions for counties; requiring a county to suspend enforcement of an ordinance that is the subject of a certain legal action if certain conditions are met; providing certain procedures for continued meetings on proposed ordinances for municipalities, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-309.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 170 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/170/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 170 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/170/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 170 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/170/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 170 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/170/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 170 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/170/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 170 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/170/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **2911** (pass) · upper
- CS/CS/SB 170 — **2812** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **8233** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **371** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **72** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Trumbull — primary (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-24** Filed `filing`
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/08/23, 9:30 am, 401 Senate Building
- **2023-02-08** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 2
- **2023-02-09** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-02-09** Now in Rules
- **2023-02-13** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/23/23, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2023-02-23** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2023-02-24** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2023-02-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2023-03-06** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/08/23
- **2023-03-07** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-07** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2023-03-07** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** Amendment(s) adopted (654388)
- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** CS passed as amended; YEAS 29 NAYS 11 `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Immediately certified
- **2023-03-09** In Messages
- **2023-05-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2023-05-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (5/2/2023)
- **2023-05-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 576671 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 541225 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 378465 adopted
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 679791 superseded by substitute
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 096465 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 801715 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 143911 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 792009 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 404201 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 344903 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 143377 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 229075 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 048075 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 294057 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 210035 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Amendment 525837 Failed
- **2023-05-02** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-02** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2023-05-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 82, NAYS 33 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** In returning messages
- **2023-05-03** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (378465)
- **2023-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Reconsidered
- **2023-05-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 28 NAYS 12 `passage`
- **2023-05-03** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-06-26** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-05** Chapter No. 2023-309
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee4fe728-4962-4514-a2b3-73b3b9fbd541`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).