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| Bill | Renewable Energy | Renewable Energy; Defining the term “solar facility”; providing that solar facilities are a permitted use in local government comprehensive plan agricultural land use categories and certain agricultural zoning districts; authorizing the Florida Public Service Commission to approve cost recovery by a gas public utility for certain contracts for the purchase of renewable natural gas, etc. | us/states/fl | Florida Legislature | 2021 | SB 896 | Florida SB 896 (2021) |
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enacted | 2021-178 |
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5 | 38 | 5 | 2021-01-28 | 2021-07-06 | openstates | ocd-bill/39215d3e-18cd-44ad-a37c-63290288768f | https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/896/ByCategory | b38b753cea9d895680cfe03b1f5e28e6d77c797874c077d4d836126afc97fc73 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Florida SB 896 (2021) — Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy; Defining the term “solar facility”; providing that solar facilities are a permitted use in local government comprehensive plan agricultural land use categories and certain agricultural zoning districts; authorizing the Florida Public Service Commission to approve cost recovery by a gas public utility for certain contracts for the purchase of renewable natural gas, etc.
Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-178.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- S 896 Filed (filed) — source
- S 896 c1 (committee substitute) — source
- S 896 c2 (committee substitute) — source
- S 896 e1 (engrossed) — source
- S 896 er (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Favorable — 3–2 (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — 25–14 (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — 7–1 (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — 11–5 (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — 86–29 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Brodeur — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-28 Filed
filing - 2021-02-04 Referred to Regulated Industries; Environment and Natural Resources; Rules
referral-committee - 2021-03-02 Introduced
introduction - 2021-03-09 On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/09/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- 2021-03-11 On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 03/16/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- 2021-03-16 CS by Regulated Industries; YEAS 7 NAYS 1
- 2021-03-17 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- 2021-03-18 Now in Environment and Natural Resources
- 2021-03-18 CS by Regulated Industries read 1st time
- 2021-03-24 On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/29/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- 2021-03-29 Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 3 NAYS 2
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-03-29 Now in Rules
- 2021-04-15 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/20/21, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- 2021-04-20 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 11 NAYS 5
- 2021-04-20 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- 2021-04-21 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- 2021-04-21 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/22/21
- 2021-04-21 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- 2021-04-22 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-22 Amendment(s) adopted (633872)
- 2021-04-22 Ordered engrossed
- 2021-04-22 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2021-04-26 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-26 In Messages
- 2021-04-26 CS passed as amended; YEAS 25 NAYS 14
passage - 2021-04-26 Bill referred to House Calendar
- 2021-04-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- 2021-04-26 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- 2021-04-27 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2021-04-27 Placed on 3rd reading
- 2021-04-27 Added to Third Reading Calendar
- 2021-04-28 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2021-04-28 CS passed; YEAS 86, NAYS 29
passage - 2021-04-28 Message sent to senate
- 2021-04-28 Ordered enrolled
- 2021-06-28 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- 2021-06-29 Approved by Governor
executive-signature - 2021-07-06 Chapter No. 2021-178
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39215d3e-18cd-44ad-a37c-63290288768f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).