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type: "Bill"
title: "Flood Disclosures"
description: "Flood Disclosures; Requiring a landlord of residential real property to provide specified information to a prospective tenant at or before the time the rental agreement is executed; providing that if a landlord fails to disclose flood information truthfully and a tenant suffers substantial loss or damage, the tenant may terminate the rental agreement by giving a written notice of termination and surrendering possession of the premises to the landlord within a specified timeframe; requiring a developer of a residential condominium unit to provide specified information to a prospective purchaser at or before the time the sales contract is executed; requiring a park owner of a mobile home park to provide specified information to a prospective lessee at or before the time the rental agreement is executed, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 948"
citation: "Florida SB 948 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["civil practice and procedure"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-166"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley", "Judiciary"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d8396ba-284c-4622-a044-557a38d70677"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/948/ByCategory"
source_hash: "514cf6ef6146d6f32df8794092b6996fa37420c9fab7b2ca809b6eed291c42dd"
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 948 (2025) — Flood Disclosures
Flood Disclosures; Requiring a landlord of residential real property to provide specified information to a prospective tenant at or before the time the rental agreement is executed; providing that if a landlord fails to disclose flood information truthfully and a tenant suffers substantial loss or damage, the tenant may terminate the rental agreement by giving a written notice of termination and surrendering possession of the premises to the landlord within a specified timeframe; requiring a developer of a residential condominium unit to provide specified information to a prospective purchaser at or before the time the sales contract is executed; requiring a park owner of a mobile home park to provide specified information to a prospective lessee at or before the time the rental agreement is executed, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-166.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 948 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/948/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 948 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/948/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 948 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/948/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 948 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/948/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 948 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/948/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **240** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bradley — primary (person)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Judiciary; Regulated Industries; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-07** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/12/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-12** CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-13** Now in Regulated Industries
- **2025-03-18** CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/25/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-25** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/01/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-01** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-02** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment(s) adopted (788766)
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-166
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d8396ba-284c-4622-a044-557a38d70677`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).