Legislation: Florida — 2,186 enacted records (OpenStates 2026-07-01)

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Renewable Energy"
+description: "Renewable Energy; Defining the term “solar facility”; providing that solar facilities are a permitted use in local government comprehensive plan agricultural land use categories and certain agricultural zoning districts; authorizing the Florida Public Service Commission to approve cost recovery by a gas public utility for certain contracts for the purchase of renewable natural gas, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 896"
+citation: "Florida SB 896 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ports and harbors", "railroads and other regulated utilities", "reclamation", "and use"]
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2021-178"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-01-28"
+last_action: "2021-07-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39215d3e-18cd-44ad-a37c-63290288768f"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "b38b753cea9d895680cfe03b1f5e28e6d77c797874c077d4d836126afc97fc73"
+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 896 (2021) — Renewable Energy
+
+Renewable Energy; Defining the term “solar facility”; providing that solar facilities are a permitted use in local government comprehensive plan agricultural land use categories and certain agricultural zoning districts; authorizing the Florida Public Service Commission to approve cost recovery by a gas public utility for certain contracts for the purchase of renewable natural gas, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-178.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 896 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 896 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 896 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/c2/HTML)
+4. **S 896 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/e1/HTML)
+5. **S 896 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **3–2** (pass) · upper
+- Third Reading — **25–14** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–1** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–5** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **86–29** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brodeur — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-28** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-02-04** Referred to Regulated Industries; Environment and Natural Resources; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2021-03-09** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/09/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
+- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/16/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
+- **2021-03-16** CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 7 NAYS 1
+- **2021-03-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2021-03-18** Now in Environment and Natural Resources
+- **2021-03-18** CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
+- **2021-03-24** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/29/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2021-03-29** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 3 NAYS 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-29** Now in Rules
+- **2021-04-15** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2021-04-20** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 11 NAYS 5
+- **2021-04-20** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2021-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
+- **2021-04-21** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
+- **2021-04-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-22** Amendment(s) adopted (633872)
+- **2021-04-22** Ordered engrossed
+- **2021-04-22** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-26** In Messages
+- **2021-04-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 25 NAYS 14 `passage`
+- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
+- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
+- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 86, NAYS 29 `passage`
+- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
+- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
+- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
+- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-178
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39215d3e-18cd-44ad-a37c-63290288768f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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