---
type: "Bill"
title: "Floating Solar Facilities"
description: "Floating Solar Facilities; Requires floating solar facility to be permitted use in certain land use categories; requires local governments to promote expanded uses of floating solar facilities by taking specified actions; authorizes county or municipality to specify buffer & landscaping requirements; requires Office of Energy within DACS to submit recommendations to Legislature regarding floating solar facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1411"
citation: "Florida HB 1411 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["county organization and intergovernmental relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-83"
primary_sponsors: ["Avila"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-08"
last_action: "2022-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2e69b3a-77dd-412e-adf1-8883c6d7fa2a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1411/ByCategory"
source_hash: "62f511787294a8b820deeda0ce65883fdc0429dad837a1325f4eda9bc2d5314e"
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 1411 (2022) — Floating Solar Facilities

Floating Solar Facilities; Requires floating solar facility to be permitted use in certain land use categories; requires local governments to promote expanded uses of floating solar facilities by taking specified actions; authorizes county or municipality to specify buffer & landscaping requirements; requires Office of Energy within DACS to submit recommendations to Legislature regarding floating solar facilities.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-83.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1411 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1411/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1411 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1411/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1411 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1411/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 1411 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1411/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee) — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Commerce Committee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Avila — primary (person)
- Commerce Committee — primary (organization)
- Local Administration and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Fernandez-Barquin — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-08** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Now in Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee
- **2022-01-21** Added to Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-01-25** Favorable by Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-28** Reported out of Tourism, Infrastructure & Energy Subcommittee
- **2022-01-28** Now in Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2022-02-03** Added to Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-07** Favorable with CS by Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2022-02-07** Reported out of Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
- **2022-02-07** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-07** CS Filed
- **2022-02-08** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2022-02-15** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2022-02-17** Favorable with CS by Commerce Committee
- **2022-02-17** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2022-02-17** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-17** CS Filed
- **2022-02-17** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/22/2022)
- **2022-02-17** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
- **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 112, 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 1338
- **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
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-27** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-28** Chapter No. 2022-83

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2e69b3a-77dd-412e-adf1-8883c6d7fa2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).