---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funding for Environmental Resource Management"
description: "Funding for Environmental Resource Management; Requiring the Department of Revenue to deposit into the Indian Gaming Revenue Trust Fund within the Department of Financial Services a specified percentage of the revenue share payments received under the gaming compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the State of Florida; creating the Local Trail Management Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection for a specified purpose; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to enter into voluntary agreements with private landowners for environmental services within the Florida wildlife corridor, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1638"
citation: "Florida SB 1638 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property", "reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-58"
primary_sponsors: ["Fiscal Policy", "Hutson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f12fa68f-ae4e-4041-a6d1-87ec6f5e409f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1638/ByCategory"
source_hash: "c44e7b74b7d18a2cd28d827b9d41c59eef5ef2093cd44f68f18e59ddc24ed819"
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 1638 (2024) — Funding for Environmental Resource Management

Funding for Environmental Resource Management; Requiring the Department of Revenue to deposit into the Indian Gaming Revenue Trust Fund within the Department of Financial Services a specified percentage of the revenue share payments received under the gaming compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the State of Florida; creating the Local Trail Management Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection for a specified purpose; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to enter into voluntary agreements with private landowners for environmental services within the Florida wildlife corridor, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-58.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1638 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1638/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1638 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1638/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1638 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1638/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1638 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1638/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fiscal Policy — primary (person)
- Hutson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-11** Referred to Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-19** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/24/24, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2024-01-24** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2024-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/15/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-15** CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-19** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-20** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/22/24
- **2024-02-20** CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2024-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** Amendment(s) adopted (604354, 693966)
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-22** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-04** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Chapter No. 2024-58, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 7080 (Ch. 2024-59)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f12fa68f-ae4e-4041-a6d1-87ec6f5e409f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).