republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2026/sb-290.md

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Bill	Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services	Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service’s powers, authority, and duties, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2026	SB 290	Florida SB 290 (2026)	bill	and solicitations criminal procedure and corrections industry insurance motor vehicles municipalities public lands and property reclamation and use regulation of professions and occupations relations taxation and finance	enacted	2026-3	Truenow	6	38	5	2025-10-24	2026-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/f5bf0ee6-be71-43af-ba76-4fb2d4046ccc	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/ByCategory	9910575b9cdbfa875ca3b21695e71b8018d6eb5e0f47334765b2434e91581e8a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 290 (2026) — Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service’s powers, authority, and duties, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-3.

Version chain

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

1. S 290 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 290 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 290 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 290 c3 (committee substitute) — source
5. S 290 e1 (engrossed) — source
6. S 290 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 17–3 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 94–10 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Agriculture — primary (organization)
• Fiscal Policy — primary (organization)
• Rules — primary (organization)
• Truenow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-10-24 Filed filing
• 2025-11-17 Referred to Agriculture; Fiscal Policy; Rules referral-committee
• 2025-11-24 On Committee agenda-- Agriculture, 12/02/25, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
• 2025-12-02 CS by Agriculture; YEAS 4 NAYS 0
• 2025-12-04 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2025-12-05 Now in Fiscal Policy
• 2026-01-09 On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 01/14/26, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
• 2026-01-13 Introduced introduction
• 2026-01-13 CS by Agriculture read 1st time
• 2026-01-14 CS/CS by Fiscal Policy; YEAS 17 NAYS 3
• 2026-01-15 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2026-01-16 Now in Rules
• 2026-01-22 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 01/27/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
• 2026-01-22 CS/CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
• 2026-02-05 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/10/26, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2026-02-10 CS/CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
• 2026-02-12 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2026-02-12 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2026-02-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/26
• 2026-02-18 CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2026-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-02-19 Amendment(s) adopted (753210, 906600)
• 2026-02-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-02-19 CS passed as amended; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-02-19 Immediately certified
• 2026-02-19 In Messages
• 2026-02-26 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2026-02-26 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/3/2026)
• 2026-02-26 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2026-03-03 Substituted for CS/CS/HB 433
• 2026-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-03 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2026-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-03 CS passed; YEAS 94, NAYS 10 passage
• 2026-03-03 Ordered enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-18 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-03-23 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-03-24 Chapter No. 2026-3

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5bf0ee6-be71-43af-ba76-4fb2d4046ccc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).