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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services"
description: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing that certain positions in the department are exempt from the Career Service System; prohibiting a person from knowingly or willfully performing certain actions on lands classified as agricultural; requiring that certain lands acquired or owned by an electric utility by a certain date be offered for fee simple acquisition by the department before the land may be offered for sale or transfer to a private individual or entity; requiring local governmental entities to issue permits for electric vehicle charging stations based on specified standards and provisions of law; requiring, subject to appropriation of funds, the Cattle Enhancement Board, Inc., in coordination with the department, to establish a Florida beef marketing program, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 700"
citation: "Florida SB 700 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["(vetoed)", "alcoholic beverages and tobacco", "aviation", "business organizations", "commercial relations", "crimes", "domestic relations", "industry", "municipalities", "planning and development", "public lands and property", "railroads and other regulated utilities", "real and personal property", "reclamation", "and use", "veterans"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-22"
primary_sponsors: ["Truenow"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7db5884e-29f7-4e21-8c85-cdf5bc9503f5"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700/ByCategory"
source_hash: "318622d377563c01a5b19787c16adaba386d31e893c06e83ade9c357a512180c"
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 700 (2025) — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Providing that certain positions in the department are exempt from the Career Service System; prohibiting a person from knowingly or willfully performing certain actions on lands classified as agricultural; requiring that certain lands acquired or owned by an electric utility by a certain date be offered for fee simple acquisition by the department before the land may be offered for sale or transfer to a private individual or entity; requiring local governmental entities to issue permits for electric vehicle charging stations based on specified standards and provisions of law; requiring, subject to appropriation of funds, the Cattle Enhancement Board, Inc., in coordination with the department, to establish a Florida beef marketing program, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-22.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 700 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 700 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 700 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 700 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 700 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 700 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/700/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **279** (pass) · upper
- A - 765612, Amendment, Second Reading — **1321** (fail) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **60** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **135** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **84** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **8827** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Agriculture — primary (organization)
- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government — primary (organization)
- Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
- Truenow — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-13** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-25** Referred to Agriculture; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2025-03-11** CS by Agriculture; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2025-03-13** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-13** Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2025-03-18** CS by Agriculture read 1st time
- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 03/26/25, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-26** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 8 NAYS 4
- **2025-03-28** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-03-28** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-04-02** CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government read 1st time
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/08/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-08** CS/CS/CS by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 13 NAYS 5
- **2025-04-10** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/15/25
- **2025-04-14** CS/CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Amendment(s) failed (154380, 274106, 765612)
- **2025-04-15** Amendment(s) adopted (340838)
- **2025-04-15** Ordered engrossed
- **2025-04-15** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 27 NAYS 9 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amendment 649901 Failed
- **2025-04-29** Amendment 910335 Failed
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** CS passed; YEAS 88, NAYS 27 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-20** Chapter No. 2025-22
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7db5884e-29f7-4e21-8c85-cdf5bc9503f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).