---
type: "Bill"
title: "Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience"
description: "Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience; Establishes Statewide Office of Resilience within EOG; provides for appointment of Chief Resilience Officer; requires DEP to submit report to Governor & Legislature; requires DOT to develop resilience action plan for State Highway System & submit plan & reports to Governor & Legislature; revises projects DEP may fund within Resilient Florida Grant Program; revises vulnerability assessment requirements for noncoastal communities; extends dates by which DEP must complete comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability & sea level rise data set & assessment; requires projects to be ranked in Statewide Flood & Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan; requires Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research & Innovation to provide tidal & storm surge flooding data to certain entities; revises requirements for copies of evaluation certificates that must be submitted to DEM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 7053"
citation: "Florida HB 7053 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["and use", "executive branch", "public transportation"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-89"
primary_sponsors: ["Busatta Cabrera"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfb83a6b-f976-47ae-8e7c-36ba37e43a14"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7053/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b2c49852550f2da13d37a1f04edf83cb3c130118fec7da78ab14095b1e952ce3"
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 7053 (2022) — Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience

Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience; Establishes Statewide Office of Resilience within EOG; provides for appointment of Chief Resilience Officer; requires DEP to submit report to Governor & Legislature; requires DOT to develop resilience action plan for State Highway System & submit plan & reports to Governor & Legislature; revises projects DEP may fund within Resilient Florida Grant Program; revises vulnerability assessment requirements for noncoastal communities; extends dates by which DEP must complete comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability & sea level rise data set & assessment; requires projects to be ranked in Statewide Flood & Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan; requires Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research & Innovation to provide tidal & storm surge flooding data to certain entities; revises requirements for copies of evaluation certificates that must be submitted to DEM.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-89.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 7053 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7053/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 7053 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7053/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 7053 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7053/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Appropriations Committee) — **26–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **23–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Environment, Agriculture & Flooding Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Busatta Cabrera — primary (person)
- Environment, Agriculture and Flooding Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- LaMarca — cosponsor (person)
- Roth — cosponsor (person)
- Stevenson — cosponsor (person)
- Toledo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** Filed `filing`
- **2022-02-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-02-07** Referred to Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Now in Appropriations Committee
- **2022-02-07** Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
- **2022-02-09** Favorable by Appropriations Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-09** Reported out of Appropriations Committee
- **2022-02-09** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2022-02-21** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2022-02-23** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee
- **2022-02-24** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2022-02-24** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-24** CS Filed
- **2022-02-24** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/1/2022)
- **2022-02-24** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Amendment 161233 Failed
- **2022-03-01** Amendment 897659 Failed
- **2022-03-01** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-01** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2022-03-02** In Messages
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Received
- **2022-03-09** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-09** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-09** Substituted for CS/SB 1940
- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** In Messages
- **2022-03-09** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-05-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-05-03** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-05-04** Chapter No. 2022-89

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfb83a6b-f976-47ae-8e7c-36ba37e43a14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).