---
type: "Bill"
title: "Largemouth Bass"
description: "Largemouth Bass; Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in consultation with specified entities, to adopt a rule requiring certain facilities to maintain stock acquisition documentation or records of genetic testing related to Florida largemouth bass; authorizing the sale of Florida largemouth bass as food fish under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1018"
citation: "Florida SB 1018 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["industry"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-79"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-02"
last_action: "2021-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbbad85c-e4e7-4054-bb43-a1bca44b8870"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1018/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9274e81ed8aa04ed239a834df5dfef99f6bd6f90cd06c6230c0d748af731ff10"
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 1018 (2021) — Largemouth Bass

Largemouth Bass; Requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in consultation with specified entities, to adopt a rule requiring certain facilities to maintain stock acquisition documentation or records of genetic testing related to Florida largemouth bass; authorizing the sale of Florida largemouth bass as food fish under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-79.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1018 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1018/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1018 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1018/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1018 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1018/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1018 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1018/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boyd — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-02** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-10** Referred to Agriculture; Environment and Natural Resources; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 03/03/21, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-03** Favorable by Agriculture; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Now in Environment and Natural Resources
- **2021-03-17** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/22/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-22** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-23** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-23** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2021-03-24** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/31/21, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-31** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-31** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/07/21
- **2021-04-01** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-23** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-23** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/26/2021)
- **2021-04-23** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **2021-04-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-27** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-27** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-27** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-11** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-14** Chapter No. 2021-79

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbbad85c-e4e7-4054-bb43-a1bca44b8870`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).