---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Access Facilities"
description: "Water Access Facilities; Provides sovereignty submerged land leases for Clean Marine Manufacturer facilities; provides competitive grant programs for construction & maintenance of public parking lots for boat-hauling vehicles & trailers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 735"
citation: "Florida HB 735 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property", "vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-41"
primary_sponsors: ["Brackett"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5af575e8-d22a-41ff-b287-b12d76be85f7"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/735/ByCategory"
source_hash: "841b1b59a3d19a3771d01120666cd3ba70da02908a66f969bdfe9814dcacd83f"
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 735 (2025) — Water Access Facilities

Water Access Facilities; Provides sovereignty submerged land leases for Clean Marine Manufacturer facilities; provides competitive grant programs for construction & maintenance of public parking lots for boat-hauling vehicles & trailers.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-41.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 735 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/735/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 735 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/735/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brackett — primary (person)
- Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — 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 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`
- **2025-03-07** Added to Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-11** Favorable by Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Reported out of Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
- **2025-03-11** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2025-03-18** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2025-03-20** Favorable by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2025-03-20** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/26/2025)
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-27** In Messages
- **2025-03-31** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for SB 1162
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-19** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-20** Chapter No. 2025-41

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5af575e8-d22a-41ff-b287-b12d76be85f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).