---
type: "Bill"
title: "Brownfields"
description: "Brownfields; Revises & removes provisions relating to institutional controls for mapping purposes; monetary compensation; site rehabilitation agreements; tax credits; brownfield area designations; & participation in brownfield program; prohibits DEP & local pollution control programs from denying specified status or refusing to issue specified order for certain brownfield sites."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 733"
citation: "Florida HB 733 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public business", "reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-116"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa5e1692-e397-4704-8514-0b02e886100f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/733/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6032aae9cc9b5ccc8bb71d1c9f9d4980417afde9d39080361b0c3dcc845ef385"
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 733 (2025) — Brownfields

Brownfields; Revises & removes provisions relating to institutional controls for mapping purposes; monetary compensation; site rehabilitation agreements; tax credits; brownfield area designations; & participation in brownfield program; prohibits DEP & local pollution control programs from denying specified status or refusing to issue specified order for certain brownfield sites.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-116.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 733 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/733/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 733 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/733/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 733 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/733/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Ways & Means Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Now in Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-14** Added to Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-18** Favorable with CS by Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Reported out of Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
- **2025-03-19** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-19** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-20** Referred to Ways & Means Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Now in Ways & Means Committee
- **2025-03-20** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** Added to Ways & Means Committee agenda
- **2025-03-27** Favorable by Ways & Means Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Reported out of Ways & Means Committee
- **2025-03-27** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2025-04-04** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2025-04-08** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-16** Referred to Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-05-02** Withdrawn from Rules `withdrawal`
- **2025-05-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-05-02** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 736
- **2025-05-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-02** CS passed; YEAS 32 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-02** In Messages
- **2025-05-02** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-02** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-03** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-04** Chapter No. 2025-116

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa5e1692-e397-4704-8514-0b02e886100f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).