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Bill	Mitigation Banks	Mitigation Banks; Beginning on a specified date, revising the schedule for credit release upon issuance of a mitigation bank credit permit; authorizing a mitigation bank applicant to propose an alternative credit release schedule; prohibiting mitigation credits from being released for freshwater wetland creation until certain conditions are met; requiring the department and water management districts to apply proximity factor multipliers in a specified manner; limiting the timeframe for the permit applicant to rely on a credit availability determination for specified purposes, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2025	SB 492	Florida SB 492 (2025)	bill	reclamation and use torts	enacted	2025-191	McClain	6	40	6	2025-02-05	2025-06-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d3e0907e-b4f2-4f3f-9deb-8b247af414d8	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/ByCategory	de04295b2c955bc2fa67f252fd17bd58c394d382fac00bc439a203cc58f08ae9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 492 (2025) — Mitigation Banks

Mitigation Banks; Beginning on a specified date, revising the schedule for credit release upon issuance of a mitigation bank credit permit; authorizing a mitigation bank applicant to propose an alternative credit release schedule; prohibiting mitigation credits from being released for freshwater wetland creation until certain conditions are met; requiring the department and water management districts to apply proximity factor multipliers in a specified manner; limiting the timeframe for the permit applicant to rely on a credit availability determination for specified purposes, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-191.

Version chain

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

1. S 492 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 492 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 492 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 492 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 492 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 492 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 35–3 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 87–26 (pass) · lower
• Returning Messages — 30–3 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 22–1 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government — primary (organization)
• McClain — primary (person)
• Rules — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-05 Filed filing
• 2025-02-20 Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-06 On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2025-03-11 Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 8 NAYS 1 committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
• 2025-04-07 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 04/10/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-04-10 CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
• 2025-04-14 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-04-14 Original reference(s) removed: Fiscal Policy
• 2025-04-14 Remaining references corrected to Rules
• 2025-04-14 Now in Rules
• 2025-04-14 CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government read 1st time
• 2025-04-16 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/21/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2025-04-21 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 22 NAYS 1
• 2025-04-22 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-04-22 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2025-04-23 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/29/25
• 2025-04-23 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2025-04-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Amendment(s) adopted (181416, 911276)
• 2025-04-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-29 CS passed as amended; YEAS 35 NAYS 3 passage
• 2025-04-29 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 Amendment 893499 adopted
• 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 as amended; YEAS 87, NAYS 26 passage
• 2025-04-30 In returning messages
• 2025-05-02 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (893499)
• 2025-05-02 CS passed as amended; YEAS 30 NAYS 3 passage
• 2025-05-02 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2025-06-18 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-26 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-30 Chapter No. 2025-191

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d3e0907e-b4f2-4f3f-9deb-8b247af414d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).