republic-os/legislation/us/states/fl/2026/sb-484.md

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Bill	Data Centers	Data Centers; Specifying that local governments maintain authority to exercise power and responsibility over comprehensive planning and land development regulations relating to large load customers; requiring public utilities to provide certain minimum tariff and service requirements for large load customers; prohibiting the governing board of a water management district or the Department of Environmental Protection from issuing a permit for the consumptive use of water to a large-scale data center under certain circumstances; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to contract for a study relating to the construction and operation of large-scale data centers, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2026	SB 484	Florida SB 484 (2026)	bill	railroads and other regulated utilities reclamation and use relations	enacted	2026-65	Avila	6	39	6	2026-01-09	2026-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/1f530c44-19ee-4345-bc25-a13870dd271d	https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/484/ByCategory	c94280b088e59e5add18b4451dd64d1aeeb1196499356d55eea79cdfaba05314	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 484 (2026) — Data Centers

Data Centers; Specifying that local governments maintain authority to exercise power and responsibility over comprehensive planning and land development regulations relating to large load customers; requiring public utilities to provide certain minimum tariff and service requirements for large load customers; prohibiting the governing board of a water management district or the Department of Environmental Protection from issuing a permit for the consumptive use of water to a large-scale data center under certain circumstances; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to contract for a study relating to the construction and operation of large-scale data centers, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-65.

Version chain

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

1. S 484 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 484 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 484 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 484 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 484 e2 (engrossed) — source
6. S 484 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable with Committee Substitute — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• Returning Messages — 31–6 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 92–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Avila — primary (person)
• Community Affairs — primary (organization)
• Rules — primary (organization)
• Gaetz — cosponsor (person)
• Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-09 Filed filing
• 2026-01-12 Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules referral-committee
• 2026-01-13 Introduced introduction
• 2026-01-15 On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 01/20/26, 9:30 am, 412 Knott Building
• 2026-01-20 Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-21 Now in Community Affairs
• 2026-01-29 On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/03/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
• 2026-02-03 CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
• 2026-02-04 Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2026-02-04 Now in Rules
• 2026-02-10 CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
• 2026-02-12 On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/17/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2026-02-17 CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
• 2026-02-18 Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• 2026-02-19 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2026-02-19 CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
• 2026-02-23 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/25/26
• 2026-02-25 Retained on Special Order Calendar
• 2026-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-02-26 Amendment(s) adopted (817402)
• 2026-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-02-26 CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 passage
• 2026-02-26 Immediately certified
• 2026-02-26 In Messages
• 2026-03-10 Bill referred to House Calendar
• 2026-03-10 Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/11/2026)
• 2026-03-10 1st Reading (Engrossed 1) reading-1
• 2026-03-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-11 Amendment 383957 adopted
• 2026-03-11 Added to Third Reading Calendar
• 2026-03-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-11 CS passed as amended; YEAS 92, NAYS 16 passage
• 2026-03-11 In returning messages
• 2026-03-13 Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (383957)
• 2026-03-13 CS passed as amended; YEAS 31 NAYS 6 passage
• 2026-03-13 Ordered engrossed, then enrolled enrolled
• 2026-05-06 Signed by Officers and presented to Governor executive-receipt
• 2026-05-07 Approved by Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-08 Chapter No. 2026-65

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f530c44-19ee-4345-bc25-a13870dd271d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).