---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rural Electric Cooperatives"
description: "Rural Electric Cooperatives; Prohibiting a cooperative that sells electricity at retail from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a fee meeting specified criteria, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 288"
citation: "Florida SB 288 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-21"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-10-24"
last_action: "2026-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1898e7ca-fc7f-4925-bd49-3168c500b525"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/288/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e3bdf15443ef94a33370faa1a56ee8c9d65a91b35a9608aff24e4b3d56168cd9"
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 288 (2026) — Rural Electric Cooperatives

Rural Electric Cooperatives; Prohibiting a cooperative that sells electricity at retail from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a fee meeting specified criteria, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-21.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 288 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/288/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 288 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/288/BillText/e1/HTML)
3. **S 288 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/288/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **106–1** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-24** Filed `filing`
- **2025-11-17** Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-01** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 12/09/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-12-09** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-12-10** Now in Community Affairs
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-15** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/20/26, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-01-20** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-20** Now in Rules
- **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-01-27** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-01-27** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/29/26
- **2026-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-01-29** Passed; YEAS 35 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Immediately certified
- **2026-01-29** In Messages
- **2026-03-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-09** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/10/2026)
- **2026-03-09** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2026-03-10** Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
- **2026-03-10** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Amendment 815655 adopted
- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** Passed as amended; YEAS 106, NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2026-03-11** In returning messages
- **2026-03-12** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (815655)
- **2026-03-12** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-31** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-02** Chapter No. 2026-21

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1898e7ca-fc7f-4925-bd49-3168c500b525`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).