---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural Enclaves"
description: "Agricultural Enclaves; Authorizing certain persons to apply to the governing body of the local government for certification of certain parcels as agricultural enclaves; requiring the local government to hold a public hearing within a specified timeframe to approve or deny such certification; authorizing certain persons to submit certain development plans; authorizing the development of certain parcels for commercial, industrial, or single-family residential purposes under certain circumstances, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 686"
citation: "Florida SB 686 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["relations"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-34"
primary_sponsors: ["Judiciary", "McClain"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-01"
last_action: "2026-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd2be4a3-6f6a-4d3b-9ce7-acc7cfbc39ff"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/686/ByCategory"
source_hash: "3588711ed9ab21c40f08674505761a20486a19e64fdbc0af5a8639740bb1f31b"
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 686 (2026) — Agricultural Enclaves

Agricultural Enclaves; Authorizing certain persons to apply to the governing body of the local government for certification of certain parcels as agricultural enclaves; requiring the local government to hold a public hearing within a specified timeframe to approve or deny such certification; authorizing certain persons to submit certain development plans; authorizing the development of certain parcels for commercial, industrial, or single-family residential purposes under certain circumstances, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-34.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 686 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/686/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 686 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/686/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 686 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/686/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 686 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/686/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 686 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/686/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **90–20** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **34–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Community Affairs — primary (organization)
- Judiciary — primary (person)
- McClain — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-01** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-16** Referred to Community Affairs; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **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** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2026-01-22** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-01-22** Now in Judiciary
- **2026-01-22** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2026-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/10/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-02-10** CS/CS by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-11** CS/CS by Judiciary read 1st time
- **2026-02-12** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-19** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/24/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-24** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-25** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2026-02-25** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/26/26
- **2026-02-25** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 2 `passage`
- **2026-02-26** Immediately certified
- **2026-02-26** In Messages
- **2026-03-10** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2026-03-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
- **2026-03-10** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 90, NAYS 20 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-09** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-21** Chapter No. 2026-34

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd2be4a3-6f6a-4d3b-9ce7-acc7cfbc39ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).