republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2024/sb-1532.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mitigation"
description: "Mitigation; Defining the term “applicant”; revising the entities to whom and purposes for which water quality enhancement credits may be sold; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection or water management districts to authorize the sale and use of such credits to applicants, rather than to governmental entities, to address adverse water quality impacts of certain activities; authorizing local governments with land in credit-deficient basins to consider bids from private-sector applicants to establish mitigation banks on such lands, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1532"
citation: "Florida SB 1532 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["reclamation", "and use"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-144"
primary_sponsors: ["Brodeur", "Community Affairs", "Environment and Natural Resources", "Rules"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4c72fd0-6cd5-4fe1-8218-6e37cebe01da"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1532/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9c4163f553befdf707e0174239161e7e2fe1b47fc89bd36481241cdce3fc30ae"
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 1532 (2024) — Mitigation

Mitigation; Defining the term “applicant”; revising the entities to whom and purposes for which water quality enhancement credits may be sold; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection or water management districts to authorize the sale and use of such credits to applicants, rather than to governmental entities, to address adverse water quality impacts of certain activities; authorizing local governments with land in credit-deficient basins to consider bids from private-sector applicants to establish mitigation banks on such lands, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-144.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1532 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1532/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1532 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1532/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1532 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1532/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1532 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1532/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 1532 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1532/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brodeur — primary (person)
- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Environment and Natural Resources — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-12** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 01/17/24, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building
- **2024-01-17** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-17** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-17** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2024-01-18** Now in Community Affairs
- **2024-02-01** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/06/24, 3:00 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-02-06** CS/CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-07** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-08** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-08** CS/CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2024-02-09** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/14/24, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-14** CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-15** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-15** CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2024-02-26** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/28/24
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 3) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-07** Chapter No. 2024-144

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4c72fd0-6cd5-4fe1-8218-6e37cebe01da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).