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Bill	Anchoring Limitation Areas	Anchoring Limitation Areas; Revises anchoring limitation areas in certain sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County; revises documentation & evidence criteria for proving location of vessel within anchoring limitation area.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2024	HB 437	Florida HB 437 (2024)	bill	vessels	enacted	2024-174	Porras	5	41	2	2023-11-13	2024-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/017d6f8a-35a1-4f7f-b573-3163ef29b7b7	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/437/ByCategory	33743607ca78624d1d6b5b939b7111e370c31fd52ab78e93a43c74b17cf720cc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida HB 437 (2024) — Anchoring Limitation Areas

Anchoring Limitation Areas; Revises anchoring limitation areas in certain sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County; revises documentation & evidence criteria for proving location of vessel within anchoring limitation area.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-174.

Version chain

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

1. H 437 Filed (filed) — source
2. H 437 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. H 437 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. H 437 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. H 437 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passage, Third Reading — 105–2 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee — primary (organization)
• Infrastructure Strategies Committee — primary (organization)
• Porras — primary (person)
• Basabe — cosponsor (person)
• Benjamin — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
• Gossett-Seidman — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez, V. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-13 Filed filing
• 2023-11-22 Referred to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee referral-committee
• 2023-11-22 Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee referral-committee
• 2023-11-22 Now in Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
• 2023-12-05 Added to Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee agenda
• 2023-12-12 Favorable with CS by Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-12-13 Reported out of Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee
• 2023-12-13 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2023-12-13 CS Filed filing
• 2023-12-18 Referred to Infrastructure Strategies Committee referral-committee
• 2023-12-18 Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) filing, reading-1
• 2024-01-09 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) reading-1
• 2024-01-11 Added to Infrastructure Strategies Committee agenda
• 2024-01-16 Favorable with CS by Infrastructure Strategies Committee committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-16 Reported out of Infrastructure Strategies Committee
• 2024-01-16 Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) deferral
• 2024-01-16 CS Filed filing
• 2024-01-17 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) reading-1
• 2024-01-18 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2024-01-18 Added to Second Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/29/2024)
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Amendment 699785 adopted
• 2024-02-29 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 105, NAYS 2 passage
• 2024-02-29 In Messages
• 2024-03-01 Referred to Rules referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Received enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Withdrawn from Rules withdrawal
• 2024-03-04 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2024-03-04 Substituted for CS/CS/SB 192
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2024-03-04 In Messages
• 2024-03-04 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2024-04-25 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-05-10 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2024-05-13 Chapter No. 2024-174

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/017d6f8a-35a1-4f7f-b573-3163ef29b7b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).