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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services"
description: "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 Services powers, authority, and duties, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 290"
citation: "Florida SB 290 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-3"
primary_sponsors: ["Truenow"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-10-24"
last_action: "2026-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5bf0ee6-be71-43af-ba76-4fb2d4046ccc"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/ByCategory"
source_hash: "9910575b9cdbfa875ca3b21695e71b8018d6eb5e0f47334765b2434e91581e8a"
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 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 Services 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](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 290 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 290 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 290 c3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/c3/HTML)
5. **S 290 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/e1/HTML)
6. **S 290 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/290/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **240** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **173** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **9410** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **40** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5bf0ee6-be71-43af-ba76-4fb2d4046ccc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).