---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation"
description: "Transportation; Authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to appoint a specified number of assistant secretaries; creating the Florida Transportation Research Institute; providing that certain spaceport and space industry-related facility projects and commercial shipbuilding and manufacturing facility projects are eligible for grant funding under the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Program; authorizing the department, in consultation with the Department of Commerce and the Department of Environmental Protection, to fund certain infrastructure projects and projects associated with certain critical infrastructure projects; requiring airports to provide the Department of Transportation with the opportunity to use certain airport property for a specified purpose during a declared state of emergency, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1662"
citation: "Florida SB 1662 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["aviation", "ports and harbors", "railroads and other regulated utilities", "reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-155"
primary_sponsors: ["Collins"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-28"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88fbbaf3-673c-43e2-9519-74e19faa2609"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d56993b2746120d8f30b2011a3b46593af73c980927e38f1552f8af84c6817b4"
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 1662 (2025) — Transportation

Transportation; Authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to appoint a specified number of assistant secretaries; creating the Florida Transportation Research Institute; providing that certain spaceport and space industry-related facility projects and commercial shipbuilding and manufacturing facility projects are eligible for grant funding under the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Program; authorizing the department, in consultation with the Department of Commerce and the Department of Environmental Protection, to fund certain infrastructure projects and projects associated with certain critical infrastructure projects; requiring airports to provide the Department of Transportation with the opportunity to use certain airport property for a specified purpose during a declared state of emergency, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-155.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1662 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1662 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1662 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1662 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1662 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 1662 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/BillText/e2/HTML)
7. **S 1662 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1662/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **103–7** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **16–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (organization)
- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development — primary (organization)
- Collins — primary (person)
- Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-07** Referred to Transportation; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** On Committee agenda-- Transportation, 03/25/25, 4:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2025-03-25** CS by Transportation; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-26** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-26** Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
- **2025-03-27** CS by Transportation read 1st time
- **2025-04-07** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 04/10/25, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-10** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; YEAS 14 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-14** Now in Appropriations
- **2025-04-15** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development read 1st time
- **2025-04-16** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/17/25, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-04-17** CS/CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-21** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-21** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/23/25
- **2025-04-22** CS/CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2025-04-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Amendment(s) adopted (272764, 417336)
- **2025-04-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-23** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-23** 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** Amendment 160395 adopted
- **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** CS passed as amended; YEAS 103, NAYS 7 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** In returning messages
- **2025-04-30** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (160395)
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered engrossed, then 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. 2025-155, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 462 (Ch. 2025-149)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88fbbaf3-673c-43e2-9519-74e19faa2609`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).