republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2022/sb-494.md

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Bill	Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission	Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; Requiring lead land managing agencies, in consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to consider the use of state lands as gopher tortoise recipient sites in certain management plans; requiring the commission, subject to appropriation, to encourage the establishment of gopher tortoise recipient sites on private lands and to create an online dashboard for certain gopher tortoise recipient site information; revising the notices a person must be given for failure to submit to certain tests for alcohol, chemical substances, or controlled substances; authorizing individuals, when participating in certain athletic team practices or competitions, to operate a human-powered vessel within the marked channel of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway under certain circumstances; prohibiting municipalities and counties from designating certain waters adjacent to designated public bathing beaches or swim areas as vessel exclusion zones, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2022	SB 494	Florida SB 494 (2022)	bill	and use county organization and intergovernmental relations crimes criminal procedure and corrections public lands and property real and personal property vessels	enacted	2022-142	Appropriations Environment and Natural Resources Hutson	6	46	7	2021-10-13	2022-06-01	openstates	ocd-bill/baf5f797-3cf9-472b-be1a-5561b756d0ee	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/494/ByCategory	9c13bead617d618601449232d9e2cb0624b4be12ab95ceff092286a7f1bca239	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 494 (2022) — Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; Requiring lead land managing agencies, in consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to consider the use of state lands as gopher tortoise recipient sites in certain management plans; requiring the commission, subject to appropriation, to encourage the establishment of gopher tortoise recipient sites on private lands and to create an online dashboard for certain gopher tortoise recipient site information; revising the notices a person must be given for failure to submit to certain tests for alcohol, chemical substances, or controlled substances; authorizing individuals, when participating in certain athletic team practices or competitions, to operate a human-powered vessel within the marked channel of the Florida Intracoastal Waterway under certain circumstances; prohibiting municipalities and counties from designating certain waters adjacent to designated public bathing beaches or swim areas as vessel exclusion zones, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-142.

Version chain

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

1. S 494 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 494 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 494 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 494 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 494 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 494 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 112–1 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations — primary (person)
• Environment and Natural Resources — primary (person)
• Hutson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-10-13 Filed filing
• 2021-10-21 Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-11-22 On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 11/30/21, 9:00 am, 37 Senate Building
• 2021-11-30 CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
• 2021-12-02 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2021-12-06 Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
• 2022-01-07 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/12/22, 4:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2022-01-11 Introduced introduction
• 2022-01-11 CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
• 2022-01-12 Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
• 2022-01-14 Now in Appropriations
• 2022-01-24 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 01/27/22, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2022-01-27 CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
• 2022-01-31 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2022-01-31 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2022-01-31 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/03/22
• 2022-02-02 CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
• 2022-02-03 Retained on Special Order Calendar
• 2022-02-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-02-10 Amendment(s) adopted (289912)
• 2022-02-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-02-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-02-10 Immediately certified
• 2022-02-10 In Messages
• 2022-02-28 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2022-02-28 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2022)
• 2022-02-28 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
• 2022-03-03 Substituted for CS/CS/HB 323
• 2022-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-03 Amendment 031891 adopted
• 2022-03-03 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2022-03-03 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2022-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 1 passage
• 2022-03-04 In returning messages
• 2022-03-09 Amendment(s) to House amendment(s) adopted (658216)
• 2022-03-09 Concurred in House amendment(s) as amended (031891)
• 2022-03-09 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-09 In Messages
• 2022-03-10 Added to Senate Message List
• 2022-03-10 Amendment 658216 Concur
• 2022-03-10 CS passed as amended; YEAS 116, NAYS 0 passage
• 2022-03-10 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
• 2022-05-25 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• 2022-05-26 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2022-06-01 Chapter No. 2022-142

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/baf5f797-3cf9-472b-be1a-5561b756d0ee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).