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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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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.

  1. S 896 Filed (filed) — source
  2. S 896 c1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. S 896 c2 (committee substitute) — source
  4. S 896 e1 (engrossed) — source
  5. S 896 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Favorable — 32 (pass) · upper
  • Third Reading — 2514 (pass) · upper
  • Favorable with Committee Substitute — 71 (pass) · upper
  • Favorable with Committee Substitute — 115 (pass) · upper
  • Passage, Third Reading — 8629 (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).