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type: "Bill"
title: "Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience"
description: "Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience; Establishing the Resilient Florida Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection; requiring the department to complete a comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability and sea level rise data set and assessment by specified dates; requiring the department to develop an annual Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan and submit the plan to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; requiring the department to implement a scoring system for assessing projects eligible for inclusion in the plan, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1954"
citation: "Florida SB 1954 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-28"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodrigues"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efe1ce4e-4978-4ae0-8c2b-29ef83447fb7"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1954/ByCategory"
source_hash: "7fd8bfe3feaa7c4c99104e26e6da13efe23756b483647ff0afc22ea94707f2fc"
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 1954 (2021) — Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience
Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience; Establishing the Resilient Florida Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection; requiring the department to complete a comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability and sea level rise data set and assessment by specified dates; requiring the department to develop an annual Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan and submit the plan to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; requiring the department to implement a scoring system for assessing projects eligible for inclusion in the plan, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-28.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 1954 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1954/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1954 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1954/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1954 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1954/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1954 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1954/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 1954 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1954/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **60** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **200** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1180** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rodrigues — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-01** Filed `filing`
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-10** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/15/21, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-15** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-17** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-03-18** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2021-03-26** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/31/21, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-29** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/01/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-31** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2021-04-01** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/07/21
- **2021-04-01** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** Amendment(s) adopted (132074)
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** CS passed as amended; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-07** The Senate requests that the House pass the bill as passed by the Senate or agree to include the bill in the Budget Conference
- **2021-04-07** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-07** In Messages
- **2021-04-07** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-07** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-07** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Substituted for CS/HB 7019
- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** CS passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-08** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-04-08** Message sent to senate
- **2021-05-10** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-05-12** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-13** Chapter No. 2021-28, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2512 (Ch. 2021-39), SB 2514 (Ch. 2021-29), SB 2500 (Ch. 2021-36)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/efe1ce4e-4978-4ae0-8c2b-29ef83447fb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).