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type: "Bill"
title: "State Land Management"
description: "State Land Management; Requiring public hearings for all updated conservation and nonconservation land management plans; requiring the Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection to make available to the public, within a specified timeframe, electronic copies of land management plans for parcels of a certain size and for parcels located in state parks; revising the duties of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection; specifying requirements for the management of parks and recreational areas held by the state; requiring the division to comply with specified provisions when granting certain privileges, leases, concessions, and permits; authorizing the division to acquire, install, or permit the installation or operation at state parks of campsites and cabins that meet certain requirements; prohibiting the division from authorizing certain uses or construction activities within a state park; prohibiting the division from installing or permitting the installation of any lodging establishment within the boundaries of a state park; requiring that individual management plans for parcels located within state parks be developed with input from an advisory group; requiring that the advisory group's required public hearings be noticed to the public within a specified timeframe, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 209"
citation: "Florida HB 209 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["public lands and property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-76"
primary_sponsors: ["Gossett-Seidman", "Snyder"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44c6f63f-1980-4a82-b2bb-3591f4f26b6e"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/209/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d6a396738dd5f7228096367ddf910b1a9163476a5cd6e2afa1d3aad6f7d8d0d8"
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 HB 209 (2025) — State Land Management
State Land Management; Requiring public hearings for all updated conservation and nonconservation land management plans; requiring the Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection to make available to the public, within a specified timeframe, electronic copies of land management plans for parcels of a certain size and for parcels located in state parks; revising the duties of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection; specifying requirements for the management of parks and recreational areas held by the state; requiring the division to comply with specified provisions when granting certain privileges, leases, concessions, and permits; authorizing the division to acquire, install, or permit the installation or operation at state parks of campsites and cabins that meet certain requirements; prohibiting the division from authorizing certain uses or construction activities within a state park; prohibiting the division from installing or permitting the installation of any lodging establishment within the boundaries of a state park; requiring that individual management plans for parcels located within state parks be developed with input from an advisory group; requiring that the advisory group's required public hearings be noticed to the public within a specified timeframe, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-76.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 209 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/209/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 209 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/209/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 209 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/209/BillText/c2/PDF)
4. **H 209 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/209/BillText/e1/PDF)
5. **H 209 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/209/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Passage — **1120** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **1150** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Gossett-Seidman — primary (person)
- Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Snyder — primary (person)
- State Affairs Committee — primary (organization)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Bartleman — cosponsor (person)
- Basabe — cosponsor (person)
- Berfield — cosponsor (person)
- Black — cosponsor (person)
- Booth — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Casello — cosponsor (person)
- Chaney — cosponsor (person)
- Cobb — cosponsor (person)
- Conerly — cosponsor (person)
- Cross — cosponsor (person)
- Driskell — cosponsor (person)
- Dunkley — cosponsor (person)
- Eskamani — cosponsor (person)
- Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Gentry — cosponsor (person)
- Grow — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Hinson — cosponsor (person)
- Hodgers — cosponsor (person)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- McFarland — cosponsor (person)
- Nix — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Plakon — cosponsor (person)
- Plasencia — cosponsor (person)
- Porras — cosponsor (person)
- Redondo — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Skidmore — cosponsor (person)
- Tant — cosponsor (person)
- Temple — cosponsor (person)
- Tendrich — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
- Weinberger — cosponsor (person)
- Woodson — cosponsor (person)
- Yarkosky — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-16** Filed `filing`
- **2025-01-22** Referred to Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Now in Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
- **2025-02-28** Added to Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with CS by Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Reported out of Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
- **2025-03-06** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-06** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-07** Referred to State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2025-03-07** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** Added to State Affairs Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable with CS by State Affairs Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Reported out of State Affairs Committee
- **2025-04-08** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-04-08** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-09** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-09** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-16** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-30** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-30** Substituted for CS/SB 80
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Amendment(s) adopted (592460)
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** In Messages
- **2025-05-01** Senate Message List
- **2025-05-01** Amendment 592460 Concur
- **2025-05-01** CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-21** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-22** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Chapter No. 2025-76
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44c6f63f-1980-4a82-b2bb-3591f4f26b6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).