---
type: "Bill"
title: "Soil and Water Conservation Districts"
description: "Soil and Water Conservation Districts; Providing for the subdivision of certain proposed soil and water conservation districts; requiring the supervisors of each soil and water conservation district to be elected from each of the district’s subdivisions; providing qualification requirements for supervisors to serve on the governing body of a soil and water conservation district; providing for the automatic dissolution of soil and water conservation districts under certain conditions, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1078"
citation: "Florida SB 1078 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["agriculture", "horticulture", "and animal industry", "and use", "public lands and property", "public officers", "employees", "and records"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-191"
primary_sponsors: ["Appropriations", "Environment and Natural Resources", "Ethics and Elections", "Hutson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-11-30"
last_action: "2022-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/840b1c7f-ec9f-429a-84b1-7bc8a5eb43da"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1078/ByCategory"
source_hash: "2fa0a9b7dcfa8f6734e6a8ddef47c13bc09078d4593af817ed04233ad795cea6"
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 1078 (2022) — Soil and Water Conservation Districts

Soil and Water Conservation Districts; Providing for the subdivision of certain proposed soil and water conservation districts; requiring the supervisors of each soil and water conservation district to be elected from each of the district’s subdivisions; providing qualification requirements for supervisors to serve on the governing body of a soil and water conservation district; providing for the automatic dissolution of soil and water conservation districts under certain conditions, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-191.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1078 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1078/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1078 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1078/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1078 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1078/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1078 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1078/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1078 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1078/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 1078 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1078/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–4** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **21–16** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **77–39** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (person)
- Environment and Natural Resources — primary (person)
- Ethics and Elections — primary (person)
- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-30** Filed `filing`
- **2021-12-13** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 01/24/22, 3:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2022-01-24** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 4 NAYS 1
- **2022-01-25** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-01-26** Original reference(s) removed: Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2022-01-26** Remaining references corrected to Ethics and Elections; Appropriations
- **2022-01-26** Now in Ethics and Elections
- **2022-01-26** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2022-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 02/08/22, 12:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2022-02-08** CS/CS by Ethics and Elections; YEAS 5 NAYS 4
- **2022-02-09** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-02-10** CS/CS by Ethics and Elections read 1st time
- **2022-02-11** Now in Appropriations
- **2022-02-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/28/22, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2022-02-28** CS/CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 11 NAYS 8
- **2022-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-02** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/03/22
- **2022-03-02** CS/CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2022-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-03** Amendment(s) adopted (726208)
- **2022-03-03** Ordered engrossed
- **2022-03-03** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** CS passed as amended; YEAS 21 NAYS 16 `passage`
- **2022-03-04** In Messages
- **2022-03-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/8/2022)
- **2022-03-07** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Amendment 489767 Failed
- **2022-03-08** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 77, NAYS 39 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-06-08** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-06-15** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-06-16** Chapter No. 2022-191

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/840b1c7f-ec9f-429a-84b1-7bc8a5eb43da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).