---
type: "Bill"
title: "Spring Restoration"
description: "Spring Restoration; Authorizing certain domestic wastewater treatment facilities to request the incorporation of reclaimed water projects identified in Outstanding Florida Springs recovery or prevention strategies; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to approve such requests within a certain period of time if certain conditions are met, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1228"
citation: "Florida SB 1228 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-152"
primary_sponsors: ["McClain"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7040398a-4ce3-48b1-a782-fb5b56afb014"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1228/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9e20829abdaa9430ce2db76006739003ee0bdc3fca51bc1178240e8208c710f3"
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 1228 (2025) — Spring Restoration

Spring Restoration; Authorizing certain domestic wastewater treatment facilities to request the incorporation of reclaimed water projects identified in Outstanding Florida Springs recovery or prevention strategies; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to approve such requests within a certain period of time if certain conditions are met, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-152.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1228 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1228/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1228 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1228/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 1228 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1228/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McClain — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Regulated Industries; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-11** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Now in Regulated Industries
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/25/25, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-25** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Now in Rules
- **2025-03-27** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/01/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-01** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 25 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Amendment(s) adopted (899814)
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed as amended; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-152

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7040398a-4ce3-48b1-a782-fb5b56afb014`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).