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Bill	Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services	Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Revises, creates, & deletes various provisions under jurisdiction of DACS relating to Florida farm TEAM cards; purchase of food commodities by state agencies, state universities, & FCS institutions; selling of food; enforcement duties of DACS; food permits; bottled water; mislabeled food, food processing equipment, & food areas; milk & milk products; frozen desserts & dairy confections; bulk milk haulers & samplers; bulk milk tankers & hauling services; land acquisition; fertilizer; school food & nutrition programs; beekeepers; aquaculture; & drone use.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2023	HB 1279	Florida HB 1279 (2023)	bill	and solicitations criminal procedure and corrections industry public business public lands and property reclamation and use	enacted	2023-154	Alvarez	4	42	4	2023-03-01	2023-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/6d6ab819-43ce-4c40-9832-c132a4f03668	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1279/ByCategory	a97acc87903e05aa61d362b3431d92faa30e2aa6788b181ec6d3feba8831cf90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 1279 (2023) — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Revises, creates, & deletes various provisions under jurisdiction of DACS relating to Florida farm TEAM cards; purchase of food commodities by state agencies, state universities, & FCS institutions; selling of food; enforcement duties of DACS; food permits; bottled water; mislabeled food, food processing equipment, & food areas; milk & milk products; frozen desserts & dairy confections; bulk milk haulers & samplers; bulk milk tankers & hauling services; land acquisition; fertilizer; school food & nutrition programs; beekeepers; aquaculture; & drone use.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2023-154.

Version chain

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

1. H 1279 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 1279 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 1279 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 1279 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee) — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage, Third Reading — 109–0 (pass) · lower
• Favorable With Committee Substitute (Infrastructure Strategies Committee) — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Alvarez — primary (person)
• Infrastructure Strategies Committee — primary (organization)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Canady — cosponsor (person)
• Chambliss — cosponsor (person)
• López, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Roth — cosponsor (person)
• Stark — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-01 Filed filing
• 2023-03-06 Referred to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-03-06 Referred to Appropriations Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-06 Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-06 Now in Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
• 2023-03-07 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2023-03-17 Added to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-03-21 Favorable with CS by Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-22 Reported out of Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
• 2023-03-22 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-03-22 CS Filed filing
• 2023-03-23 Original reference removed: Appropriations Committee
• 2023-03-23 Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee
• 2023-03-23 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2023-04-13 Added to Infrastructure Strategies Committee agenda
• 2023-04-17 Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Reported out of Infrastructure Strategies Committee
• 2023-04-20 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-04-20 CS Filed filing
• 2023-04-20 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2023-04-20 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/25/2023)
• 2023-04-20 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2023-04-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-25 Placed on 3rd reading reading-3
• 2023-04-25 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2023-04-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-26 CS passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-04-26 In Messages
• 2023-04-26 Referred to Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy withdrawal
• 2023-04-26 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2023-04-26 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1164
• 2023-04-26 Received enrolled
• 2023-04-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-04-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-04-26 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2023-04-26 In Messages
• 2023-04-26 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2023-05-16 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-25 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-26 Chapter No. 2023-154

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d6ab819-43ce-4c40-9832-c132a4f03668. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).