---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Citrus"
description: "Department of Citrus; Establishing the Friends of Florida Citrus Program within the Department of Citrus; creating the Friends of Florida Citrus Advisory Council adjunct to the department; authorizing the Department of Citrus to loan department employees to or share department employees with specified state and federal entities, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1276"
citation: "Florida SB 1276 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["industry"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-151"
primary_sponsors: ["Albritton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-12-17"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3057795-97f6-4bf5-8e51-252a02f391f9"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1276/ByCategory"
source_hash: "5ee377ed434b9650888c0e512aaec3cb25219db91afa1aa930313756291aa5d2"
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 1276 (2020) — Department of Citrus

Department of Citrus; Establishing the Friends of Florida Citrus Program within the Department of Citrus; creating the Friends of Florida Citrus Advisory Council adjunct to the department; authorizing the Department of Citrus to loan department employees to or share department employees with specified state and federal entities, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-151.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 1276 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1276/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1276 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1276/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1276 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1276/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albritton — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-12-17** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Agriculture; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 01/14/20, 2:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-15** Now in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
- **2020-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 01/21/20, 2:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-21** Favorable by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-21** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/03/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-03-03** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-04** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-04** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Chapter No. 2020-151

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3057795-97f6-4bf5-8e51-252a02f391f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).