---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Trust Funds"
description: "Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Trust Funds; Revising the sources of funds that may be used for specified purposes for the Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund; authorizing the commission to invest and reinvest funds and the interest thereof of the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund and the Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund, respectively; revising the use of such funds for the marketing of the license plates; authorizing such funds to be used for commission administrative costs, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 524"
citation: "Florida SB 524 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["motor vehicles", "reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-54"
primary_sponsors: ["Hooper"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c9f11b0-16e8-4022-9ab0-444c0670a8f0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/524/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2c63bebb5e25ba946b81bf3bdd804df7e46dcdf524632c8f9c3bbecccedc6fcf"
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 524 (2021) — Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Trust Funds

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Trust Funds; Revising the sources of funds that may be used for specified purposes for the Florida Panther Research and Management Trust Fund; authorizing the commission to invest and reinvest funds and the interest thereof of the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund and the Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund, respectively; revising the use of such funds for the marketing of the license plates; authorizing such funds to be used for commission administrative costs, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-54.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 524 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/524/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 524 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/524/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hooper — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-21** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 02/01/21, 2:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-02-01** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-01** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 02/17/21, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2021-02-17** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-18** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-15** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/18/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-18** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-22** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/25/21
- **2021-03-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-25** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Immediately certified
- **2021-03-25** In Messages
- **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 (Original Filed Version)
- **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** Passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-04** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-09** Chapter No. 2021-54

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c9f11b0-16e8-4022-9ab0-444c0670a8f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).