SB 840 Florida Senate · 2026 Regular Session

Land Use Regulations for Local Governments Affected by Natural Disasters

Summary
Land Use Regulations for Local Governments Affected by Natural Disasters; Prohibiting impacted local governments from enforcing certain moratoriums, requiring the repair or reconstruction of certain improvements to meet certain requirements, or enforcing changes to specified procedures; revising circumstances under which impacted local governments may enforce certain amendments, site plans, development permits, or development orders; deleting provisions related to filing suit against an impacted local government for injunctive relief, etc.
Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Mar 2026
Senate Passage
Feb 2026
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Mar 13, 2026
Floor votes · Senate Feb 19, 2026

How they voted

390
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Feb 19, 2026
D Democratic11
11 Yea
100% Yea
I Independent1
1 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican28
27 Yea 1
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
22
Key actions
8
Committee
9
Mar 2, 2026
Lower · Passed
Now in Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
lower
Mar 2, 2026
Committee
Referred to Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
lower
Feb 19, 2026
Upper · Passed
Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
upper
Feb 17, 2026
Upper · Passed
Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
upper
Feb 12, 2026
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/17/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
upper
Jan 20, 2026
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
upper
Jan 15, 2026
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 01/20/26, 9:30 am, 110 Senate Building
upper
Jan 13, 2026
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Jan 13, 2026
Upper · Passed
Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
upper
Jan 8, 2026
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/13/26, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Dec 16, 2025
Committee
Referred to Community Affairs; Judiciary; Rules
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors

Sponsors