Which Florida private or public payment-bond action period applies?

Identify the actual bond, project type, principal and governing statute.

Preserve claimant-specific last labor, services or materials and any qualifying contractor-principal furnishing on the same project.

Compare required preliminary and nonpayment notices, proper recipients and actual contest service under the applicable specific regime.

1. Identify the actual bond, project type, principal and governing statute.
2. Establish each statutory clock, actual event, discovery and applicable exceptions. Compare the competing endpoints. This guide computes no date.
3. Preserve each trigger, legally available tolling interval, applicable clerk calendar and actual filing receipt.
4. Complete the required act with the proper court or recipient.

A period stated in years requires its corresponding calendar endpoint under the governing authority. A repose boundary can differ from a discovery-based limitation. Establish the applicable final-day rule, actual clerk calendar and any permitted tolling or extension. Rule 2.514 does not itself prove that a statutory repose has been extended. These conditional guides issue no calendar date.

One final-furnishing date cannot choose between the residual period and expressly excepted bond statutes. Principal identity, required notices and contest service can change the result. No computed or paid date is released.

Specific bond statutes are expressly excepted

Paragraph (6)(e) excludes actions governed by sections 255.05(10), 337.18(1) or 713.23(1)(e). Establish whether the actual bond belongs to one of those public or private regimes. Do not choose the residual clock solely because every provision contains a one-year label.

The residual branch can compare two furnishing events

The residual category covers a principal who is the stated contractor, subcontractor or sub-subcontractor. It compares claimant last furnishing with contractor last furnishing when that contractor is the principal on a bond on the same construction project. The later event governs that stated branch. Contractor identity and project relationship are material facts.

The statutory private bond uses the claimant’s own event

Section 713.23(1)(e) uses one year from the claimant’s performance of labor or completion of material delivery. It does not replace that event with another contractor’s later furnishing. Required notices and the recorded, served contest procedure remain separate and can shorten the available action period.

Notice and contest are completed acts

The statutory private-bond process distinguishes preliminary notice, sworn nonpayment notice and the contractor’s contest sequence. Actual service, prescribed recipients, certification and recording must be established. A draft notice or unserved recorded document does not establish every procedural condition or starting event.

Tolling requires an actual statutory ground

Section 95.051 limits limitation tolling to its stated grounds and referenced laws. Absence, false name and concealment do not toll when sufficient jurisdictional service remains available. Incapacity and minority carry specific conditions and outer limits. Negotiation or a demand letter alone does not establish tolling. Repose requires its own governing treatment.

An out-of-state cause can already be barred

Section 95.10 prevents maintaining an action in Florida when the cause arose elsewhere and that jurisdiction bars it through lapse of time. Establish where the actual cause arose and its governing law. A Florida period does not automatically revive the foreign-barred cause.

• This guide does not decide legal accrual, due diligence, a statutory exception, an expired claim, valid filing or successful enforcement.
• Check the governing historical edition, actual motions, orders, clerk holidays and filing receipts.

• Identify the actual bond, project type, principal and governing statute.
• Preserve claimant-specific last labor, services or materials and any qualifying contractor-principal furnishing on the same project.
• Compare required preliminary and nonpayment notices, proper recipients and actual contest service under the applicable specific regime.
• Paragraph (6)(e) excludes actions governed by sections 255.05(10), 337.18(1) or 713.23(1)(e). Establish whether the actual bond belongs to one of those public or private regimes. Do not choose the residual clock solely because every provision contains a one-year label.
• The residual category covers a principal who is the stated contractor, subcontractor or sub-subcontractor. It compares claimant last furnishing with contractor last furnishing when that contractor is the principal on a bond on the same construction project. The later event governs that stated branch. Contractor identity and project relationship are material facts.
• Section 713.23(1)(e) uses one year from the claimant’s performance of labor or completion of material delivery. It does not replace that event with another contractor’s later furnishing. Required notices and the recorded, served contest procedure remain separate and can shorten the available action period.
• The statutory private-bond process distinguishes preliminary notice, sworn nonpayment notice and the contractor’s contest sequence. Actual service, prescribed recipients, certification and recording must be established. A draft notice or unserved recorded document does not establish every procedural condition or starting event.
• Section 95.051 limits limitation tolling to its stated grounds and referenced laws. Absence, false name and concealment do not toll when sufficient jurisdictional service remains available. Incapacity and minority carry specific conditions and outer limits. Negotiation or a demand letter alone does not establish tolling. Repose requires its own governing treatment.
• Section 95.10 prevents maintaining an action in Florida when the cause arose elsewhere and that jurisdiction bars it through lapse of time. Establish where the actual cause arose and its governing law. A Florida period does not automatically revive the foreign-barred cause.
• Rule 1.050 addresses commencing the civil action by filing the complaint or petition. Complete the prescribed filing under Rule 2.525 and preserve its successful timestamp. A presuit notice, investigation, negotiation or draft complaint does not itself establish that commencement. Complete required service and any claim-specific conditions separately. This guide supplies no calculated or paid deadline.