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

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Private Property Rights to Prune, Trim, and Remove Trees"
+description: "Private Property Rights to Prune, Trim, and Remove Trees; Revising conditions under which a local government may not require a notice, application, approval, permit, fee, or mitigation for the pruning, trimming, or removal of a tree on residential property; specifying when a tree poses an unacceptable risk, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
+legislature: "Florida Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 518"
+citation: "Florida SB 518 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+chapter_law: "2022-121"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur", "Community Affairs"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-10-15"
+last_action: "2022-05-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ff6eb32-f6ba-449b-8c26-6a40db749fa9"
+source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/518/ByCategory"
+source_hash: "f6b558b0c4b199560a543bbd5e3c78ed12e880f47d1b2e214aa2b9616c64c2b8"
+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 518 (2022) — Private Property Rights to Prune, Trim, and Remove Trees
+
+Private Property Rights to Prune, Trim, and Remove Trees; Revising conditions under which a local government may not require a notice, application, approval, permit, fee, or mitigation for the pruning, trimming, or removal of a tree on residential property; specifying when a tree poses an unacceptable risk, etc.
+
+**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-121.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S 518 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/518/BillText/Filed/HTML)
+2. **S 518 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/518/BillText/c1/HTML)
+3. **S 518 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/518/BillText/er/HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Favorable — **16–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passage, Third Reading — **116–1** (pass) · lower
+- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brodeur — primary (person)
+- Community Affairs — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-10-15** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-11-03** Referred to Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2022-01-13** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/18/22, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
+- **2022-01-18** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
+- **2022-01-20** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
+- **2022-01-20** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
+- **2022-01-20** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
+- **2022-02-07** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 02/10/22, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
+- **2022-02-10** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-02-10** Now in Rules
+- **2022-02-18** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/23/22, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
+- **2022-02-23** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-02-23** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
+- **2022-02-24** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/01/22
+- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-01** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
+- **2022-03-01** In Messages
+- **2022-03-04** Bill referred to House Calendar
+- **2022-03-04** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/7/2022)
+- **2022-03-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
+- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-07** Placed on 3rd reading
+- **2022-03-07** Added to Third Reading Calendar
+- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-08** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 1 `passage`
+- **2022-03-08** Ordered enrolled
+- **2022-05-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
+- **2022-05-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-05-19** Chapter No. 2022-121
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ff6eb32-f6ba-449b-8c26-6a40db749fa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).
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