--- type: "Bill" title: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services" description: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service’s powers, authority, and duties, etc." jurisdiction: "us/states/fl" legislature: "Florida Legislature" session: "2026" identifier: "SB 290" citation: "Florida SB 290 (2026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["and solicitations", "criminal procedure and corrections", "industry", "insurance", "motor vehicles", "municipalities", "public lands and property", "reclamation", "and use", "regulation of professions and occupations", "relations", "taxation and finance"] status: "enacted" chapter_law: "2026-3" primary_sponsors: ["Truenow"] version_count: 6 action_count: 38 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2025-10-24" last_action: "2026-03-24" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5bf0ee6-be71-43af-ba76-4fb2d4046ccc" source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/ByCategory" source_hash: "9910575b9cdbfa875ca3b21695e71b8018d6eb5e0f47334765b2434e91581e8a" 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 290 (2026) — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service’s powers, authority, and duties, etc. **Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-3. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **S 290 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/Filed/HTML) 2. **S 290 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/c1/HTML) 3. **S 290 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/c2/HTML) 4. **S 290 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/c3/HTML) 5. **S 290 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/e1/HTML) 6. **S 290 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/er/HTML) ## Votes - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **24–0** (pass) · upper - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–3** (pass) · upper - Passage, Third Reading — **94–10** (pass) · lower - Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **4–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Agriculture — primary (organization) - Fiscal Policy — primary (organization) - Rules — primary (organization) - Truenow — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-10-24** Filed `filing` - **2025-11-17** Referred to Agriculture; Fiscal Policy; Rules `referral-committee` - **2025-11-24** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 12/02/25, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building - **2025-12-02** CS by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 0 - **2025-12-04** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2025-12-05** Now in Fiscal Policy - **2026-01-09** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/14/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building - **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction` - **2026-01-13** CS by Agriculture read 1st time - **2026-01-14** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 3 - **2026-01-15** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2026-01-16** Now in Rules - **2026-01-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed - **2026-01-22** CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time - **2026-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/10/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building - **2026-02-10** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0 - **2026-02-12** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2026-02-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading - **2026-02-17** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26 - **2026-02-18** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time - **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2026-02-19** Amendment(s) adopted (753210, 906600) - **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2026-02-19** CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2026-02-19** Immediately certified - **2026-02-19** In Messages - **2026-02-26** Bill referred to House Calendar - **2026-02-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2026) - **2026-02-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1` - **2026-03-03** Substituted for CS/CS/HB 433 - **2026-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2026-03-03** Added to Third Reading Calendar - **2026-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2026-03-03** CS passed; YEAS 94, NAYS 10 `passage` - **2026-03-03** Ordered enrolled `enrolled` - **2026-03-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt` - **2026-03-23** Approved by Governor `executive-signature` - **2026-03-24** Chapter No. 2026-3 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5bf0ee6-be71-43af-ba76-4fb2d4046ccc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).