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type: "Bill"
title: "Stormwater Treatment"
description: "Stormwater Treatment; Prohibiting certain stormwater treatment and net improvement activities; defining the term “regional stormwater management system”; requiring that the Department of Environmental Protection or a water management district require an applicant to provide certain documentation of adequate financial responsibility in order to meet certain requirements; authorizing water quality enhancement credits to be used by governmental entities to meet environmental resource permit stormwater treatment performance standards or achieve net improvement, pursuant to specified provisions, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 848"
citation: "Florida SB 848 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ports and harbors"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2026-60"
primary_sponsors: ["Truenow"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-12-10"
last_action: "2026-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c85e5aa-5bf8-48d9-b7fa-1feef60d4250"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/848/ByCategory"
source_hash: "65fafdc8d2d9c14ee77e1483e75c07901d358b9d6efe93e8e065ab5fc851efbe"
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 848 (2026) — Stormwater Treatment
Stormwater Treatment; Prohibiting certain stormwater treatment and net improvement activities; defining the term “regional stormwater management system”; requiring that the Department of Environmental Protection or a water management district require an applicant to provide certain documentation of adequate financial responsibility in order to meet certain requirements; authorizing water quality enhancement credits to be used by governmental entities to meet environmental resource permit stormwater treatment performance standards or achieve net improvement, pursuant to specified provisions, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2026-60.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 848 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/848/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 848 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/848/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 848 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/848/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 848 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/848/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 848 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/848/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1120** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **360** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **230** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **80** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Environment and Natural Resources — primary (organization)
- Rules — primary (organization)
- Truenow — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-10** Filed `filing`
- **2025-12-16** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 01/13/26, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2026-01-13** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2026-01-13** Introduced `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2026-01-14** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2026-01-16** Now in Community Affairs
- **2026-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 02/10/26, 3:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2026-02-10** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-10** Now in Rules
- **2026-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/17/26, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2026-02-17** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- **2026-02-19** 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, 02/26/26
- **2026-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Amendment(s) adopted (598430)
- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-26** CS passed as amended; YEAS 36 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** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2026-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 112, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2026-03-17** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-04-30** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-07** Chapter No. 2026-60
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c85e5aa-5bf8-48d9-b7fa-1feef60d4250`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).