---
type: "Bill"
title: "Florida Citrus"
description: "Florida Citrus; Revises requirements for Florida Citrus Commission membership, citrus districts, member terms, & meetings; requires certain entities to provide specified reports on citrus production research to commission; requires new varieties of citrus fruit produced from state-funded research or studies & certain technology be made exclusively available for licensing & commercialization to Department of Citrus or its designee; revises eligibility requirements of not-for-profit corporations on whose behalf Department of Citrus or DACS may collect certain financial payments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1097"
citation: "Florida HB 1097 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["agriculture", "horticulture", "and animal industry"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-117"
primary_sponsors: ["Burton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-03"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/202f078b-3482-44c0-a931-2f80ea183eed"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1097/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d6f7073588c0ddb24a8ef5dc4ca4c210d6f92ce851260f8590e0a17df06fb70d"
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 HB 1097 (2022) — Florida Citrus

Florida Citrus; Revises requirements for Florida Citrus Commission membership, citrus districts, member terms, & meetings; requires certain entities to provide specified reports on citrus production research to commission; requires new varieties of citrus fruit produced from state-funded research or studies & certain technology be made exclusively available for licensing & commercialization to Department of Citrus or its designee; revises eligibility requirements of not-for-profit corporations on whose behalf Department of Citrus or DACS may collect certain financial payments.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-117.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1097 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1097/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1097 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1097/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1097 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1097/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Burton — primary (person)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Truenow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-03** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** Now in Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-21** Added to Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-25** Favorable by Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-25** Reported out of Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee
- **2022-01-25** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2022-01-28** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2022-02-01** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee
- **2022-02-02** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2022-02-03** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-03** CS Filed
- **2022-02-03** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-02-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-07** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/22/2022)
- **2022-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-24** In Messages
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Received
- **2022-03-02** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Substituted for CS/SB 1002
- **2022-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-02** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-17** Chapter No. 2022-117

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/202f078b-3482-44c0-a931-2f80ea183eed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).