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type: "Bill"
title: "Builder Warranties"
description: "Builder Warranties ; Requiring a builder to provide certain warranties for a newly constructed home for a specified period; providing that certain defects are not covered by such warranties; providing construction; requiring the builder to remedy, at the builder's expense, certain defects and restore work damaged; providing that a builder may purchase a warranty from a certain home warranty association to cover specified warranties; requiring the builder to comply with the warranty requirement for a newly constructed home for a specified period even if it is sold or transferred, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 623"
citation: "Florida HB 623 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and solicitations", "insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-95"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson", "Steele"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-11-21"
last_action: "2024-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed4d9be8-ce67-4bd7-82e9-98abd245d19d"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/623/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c253b4ec6a7ae3c9ad3a6a9f18b18c6bee1d9983ad2e217964d0df4293d3b535"
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 HB 623 (2024) — Builder Warranties
Builder Warranties ; Requiring a builder to provide certain warranties for a newly constructed home for a specified period; providing that certain defects are not covered by such warranties; providing construction; requiring the builder to remedy, at the builder's expense, certain defects and restore work damaged; providing that a builder may purchase a warranty from a certain home warranty association to cover specified warranties; requiring the builder to comply with the warranty requirement for a newly constructed home for a specified period even if it is sold or transferred, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-95.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 623 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/623/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 623 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/623/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 623 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/623/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 623 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/623/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 623 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/623/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **1047** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1190** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Anderson — primary (person)
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Insurance & Banking Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Steele — primary (person)
- Leek — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-11-21** Filed `filing`
- **2023-11-30** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-30** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-30** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2023-12-06** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2023-12-13** Favorable with CS by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-12-21** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2023-12-21** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2023-12-21** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-03** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-03** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2024-01-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2024-01-23** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2024-01-24** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2024-01-24** CS Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-24** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-01-25** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-01-25** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-12** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/15/2024)
- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** CS passed; YEAS 119, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-15** In Messages
- **2024-02-16** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** Received `enrolled`
- **2024-03-06** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2024-03-06** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Substituted for CS/CS/CS/SB 966
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (615874)
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-06** In Messages
- **2024-03-07** Added to Senate Message List
- **2024-03-07** Amendment 615874 Concur
- **2024-03-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 104, NAYS 7 `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-02** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-15** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-16** Chapter No. 2024-95
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed4d9be8-ce67-4bd7-82e9-98abd245d19d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).