Florida Senate · 2026 Regular Session

HB 1389: Affordable Housing

Returning Messages · March 13, 2026 · Yeas 35, nays 0

What the bill does

The bill requires counties and municipalities to allow multifamily and mixed-use residential uses on specified property and prohibits them from restricting height of certain developments through other dimensional means or requiring certain setbacks or stepbacks. It lets local governments give a density bonus to landowners who donate certain real property for military family affordable housing, among other changes.

A plain-language summary drafted with AI from the official text below, then checked against that text by a separate AI review. It describes the bill, not this particular motion. How these numbers work

The Legislature's own summary of the bill (its latest version)
Affordable Housing: Requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential uses as allowable uses for specified property; providing requirements for certain proposed developments; prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the height of certain proposed developments through other dimensional means and from requiring certain setbacks or stepbacks; requiring counties and municipalities to allow certain applicants to submit revised applications, written requests, and notices of intent to account for changes made by the act; .; authorizing a local government to provide a density bonus incentive to landowners who make certain real property donations to assist in the provision of affordable housing for military families; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to evaluate the efficacy of using mezzanine finance and the potential of tiny homes for specified purposes, etc.

Official source ↗

How each party voted

Democrats
Yea 9 · Nay 0 · Not voting 2
Republicans
Yea 26 · Nay 0 · Not voting 1
No party
Yea 0 · Nay 0 · Not voting 1

Senate President Ben Albritton voted yea.

Bill

Bill
CS/CS/HB 1389
Motion
Returning Messages
Date
March 13, 2026, 10:18 AM
Session
2026 Regular Session
Presiding
President Albritton
Yeas–nays
Yeas 35, nays 0; 4 didn't vote (1 excused, 0 abstained)

Official vote record (PDF) ↗
The bill on flsenate.gov ↗

The chamber on this vote

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How each member voted