---
type: "Bill"
title: "Trust Funds for Wildlife Management"
description: "Trust Funds for Wildlife Management; Revising the uses of the Grants and Donations Trust Fund; deleting the requirement that the commission designate an identifiable unit to administer the Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund; authorizing the commission to use the proceeds from the trust fund for law enforcement; authorizing the commission to enter into specified agreements with private landowners, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 388"
citation: "Florida SB 388 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-32"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c56a7211-a203-46d1-a013-28c27517fd4a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/388/ByCategory"
source_hash: "75212a9d81387a7cf9b74c53e693efac85f9c2a77d1e01cf99a2ec1c6dfd92ab"
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 388 (2025) — Trust Funds for Wildlife Management

Trust Funds for Wildlife Management; Revising the uses of the Grants and Donations Trust Fund; deleting the requirement that the commission designate an identifiable unit to administer the Nongame Wildlife Trust Fund; authorizing the commission to use the proceeds from the trust fund for law enforcement; authorizing the commission to enter into specified agreements with private landowners, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-32.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 388 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/388/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 388 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/388/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 388 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/388/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Appropriations — primary (organization)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-10** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/03/25, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-03** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 03/18/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-18** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Now in Appropriations
- **2025-03-28** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-31** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/03/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
- **2025-04-02** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- **2025-04-04** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- **2025-04-08** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-09** In Messages
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-20** Chapter No. 2025-32

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c56a7211-a203-46d1-a013-28c27517fd4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).