---
type: "Bill"
title: "Aerospace Industry"
description: "Aerospace Industry; Requiring Space Florida to administer the International Aerospace Innovation Fund; establishing the International Aerospace Innovation Fund; providing the purpose and duties of the fund; requiring Space Florida to establish an application process for projects seeking funding from the fund, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1516"
citation: "Florida SB 1516 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["aviation"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-154"
primary_sponsors: ["Wright"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a9c52b8-b9e2-4958-9e71-6868532d9b2b"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1516/ByCategory"
source_hash: "0298994db917d4408fe2c11c051c255f1d20b8f888ea893a8542bf3ab98aa4fd"
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 1516 (2025) — Aerospace Industry

Aerospace Industry; Requiring Space Florida to administer the International Aerospace Innovation Fund; establishing the International Aerospace Innovation Fund; providing the purpose and duties of the fund; requiring Space Florida to establish an application process for projects seeking funding from the fund, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-154.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1516 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1516/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1516 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1516/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-06** Referred to Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security, 03/18/25, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-18** Favorable by Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-26** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 14 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-02** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** 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** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed; 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 (Original Filed Version) `filing, 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 115, 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. 2025-154

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a9c52b8-b9e2-4958-9e71-6868532d9b2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).