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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1579: Farming Community High-speed Broadband Development Incentives

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1579 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Farming Community High-speed Broadband Development Incentives. Primary sponsor: Fentrice Driskell (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Farming Community High-speed Broadband Development Incentives; Creates a state-funded grant program with Office of Broadband to fund broadband infrastructure projects in underserved farming communities; provides eligibility criteria; specifies limits on annual funding; requires funding recipients to providing annual reports containing specified information; requires office to conduct performance audits; authorizes farmers in underserved farming communities to receive specified tax credits if certain conditions are met; specifies projects eligible for tax credits; requires Office of Broadband to conduct specified public awareness campaigns & provide technical training programs.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Fentrice DriskellPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse67

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee
  4. Referred to Commerce Committee
  5. Referred to Transportation & Economic Development Budget Subcommittee
  6. Referred to Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee
  7. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  8. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source