---
type: "Bill"
title: "Urban Agriculture"
description: "Urban Agriculture; Authorizing farm equipment used to transport farm products to be stored, maintained, or repaired within specified boundaries; exempting farm equipment used in urban agriculture from provisions requiring farm equipment to be located within specified boundaries; providing that nonresidential farm buildings, fences, or signs located on lands used for urban agriculture are not exempt from the Florida Building Code or local governmental regulations; creating the “Urban Agriculture Pilot Project Act\"; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to approve municipal urban agricultural pilot projects, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 628"
citation: "Florida SB 628 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["industry"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-115"
primary_sponsors: ["Rouson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96f26114-b240-4d9c-9668-cf333574dadb"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/628/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c2777d9a1092117280414ef6143661c6b2fb62d8b831d4aa262fa9ca8bec82b3"
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 628 (2021) — Urban Agriculture

Urban Agriculture; Authorizing farm equipment used to transport farm products to be stored, maintained, or repaired within specified boundaries; exempting farm equipment used in urban agriculture from provisions requiring farm equipment to be located within specified boundaries; providing that nonresidential farm buildings, fences, or signs located on lands used for urban agriculture are not exempt from the Florida Building Code or local governmental regulations; creating the “Urban Agriculture Pilot Project Act"; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to approve municipal urban agricultural pilot projects, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-115.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 628 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/628/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 628 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/628/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 628 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/628/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 628 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/628/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rouson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-13** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Agriculture; Community Affairs; 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 Community Affairs
- **2021-03-11** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/16/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-16** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Now in Rules
- **2021-04-01** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/06/21, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-04-06** CS by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-07** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-07** CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-04-09** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-09** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/14/21
- **2021-04-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-14** Amendment(s) adopted (818054)
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-14** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-14** 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 (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 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-06-15** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-17** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-18** Chapter No. 2021-115

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96f26114-b240-4d9c-9668-cf333574dadb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).