SB 290 Florida 2026 session
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service’s powers, authority, and duties, etc.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Enacted — last recorded action March 24, 2026
Chapter No. 2026-3
Recorded votes
Favorable with Committee Substitute
24 yes · 0 no · pass February 10, 2026
Favorable with Committee Substitute
17 yes · 3 no · pass January 14, 2026
Favorable with Committee Substitute
4 yes · 0 no · pass December 2, 2025
Decided by five votes or fewer.
Passage likelihood
Not enough recorded signal to estimate this bill's chances.
State-level impact
State-level impact data is not available for this bill. The source text does not contain a per-state funding formula or scored breakdown, so no figures are shown.
Official actions
- Chapter No. 2026-3
- Approved by Governor
- Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- Ordered enrolled
- CS passed; YEAS 94, NAYS 10
- Read 3rd time
- Added to Third Reading Calendar
- Read 2nd time
- Substituted for CS/CS/HB 433
- 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2026)
- Bill referred to House Calendar
- In Messages
- Immediately certified
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
- Read 3rd time
- Amendment(s) adopted (753210, 906600)
- Read 2nd time
- CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/10/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- Now in Rules
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- CS/CS by Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 3
- CS by Agriculture read 1st time
- Introduced
- On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/14/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- Now in Fiscal Policy
- Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- CS by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 0
- On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 12/02/25, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- Referred to Agriculture; Fiscal Policy; Rules
- Filed