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type: "Bill"
title: "Mitigation Banks"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 492"
citation: "Florida SB 492 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["reclamation", "and use", "torts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-191"
primary_sponsors: ["McClain"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3e0907e-b4f2-4f3f-9deb-8b247af414d8"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/ByCategory"
source_hash: "de04295b2c955bc2fa67f252fd17bd58c394d382fac00bc439a203cc58f08ae9"
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 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 492 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 492 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 492 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 492 e2** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/BillText/e2/HTML)
6. **S 492 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/492/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **353** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **81** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **8726** (pass) · lower
- Returning Messages — **303** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **221** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **110** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3e0907e-b4f2-4f3f-9deb-8b247af414d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).