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type: "Bill"
title: "Vessel Accountability"
description: "Vessel Accountability; Defining the term “vessel owner”; providing a penalty for a person anchoring, mooring, or allowing certain vessels to occupy the waters of this state if an officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or a law enforcement agency finds that specified conditions exist; requiring the commission to issue, at no cost, a permit for the long-term anchoring of a vessel which includes specified information; requiring the commission to use an electronic application and permitting system; requiring that a vessel subject to a specified number of violations within a 24-month period which result in certain dispositions be declared a public nuisance, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 164"
citation: "Florida SB 164 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["vessels"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-147"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7788952-5f0e-4ebd-bc4c-e173077d35ea"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/164/ByCategory"
source_hash: "6152c3a5da66efc959f61de7d801765d9355b073ee46cd844ef3b7fcebc68cb1"
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 164 (2025) — Vessel Accountability
Vessel Accountability; Defining the term “vessel owner”; providing a penalty for a person anchoring, mooring, or allowing certain vessels to occupy the waters of this state if an officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or a law enforcement agency finds that specified conditions exist; requiring the commission to issue, at no cost, a permit for the long-term anchoring of a vessel which includes specified information; requiring the commission to use an electronic application and permitting system; requiring that a vessel subject to a specified number of violations within a 24-month period which result in certain dispositions be declared a public nuisance, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-147.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 164 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/164/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 164 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/164/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 164 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/164/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 164 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/164/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1130** (pass) · lower
- Favorable — **180** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **120** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Environment and Natural Resources — primary (organization)
- Rodriguez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-14** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-20** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/03/25, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-03** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-04** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-04** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2025-03-05** Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2025-03-13** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 03/18/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-18** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-03-24** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/27/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-27** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-01** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/03/25
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Amendment(s) adopted (849776)
- **2025-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-03** In Messages
- **2025-04-29** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/30/2025)
- **2025-04-29** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** CS passed; YEAS 113, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-19** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-147
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7788952-5f0e-4ebd-bc4c-e173077d35ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).