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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 209: State Land Management

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 209 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on January 16, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: State Land Management. Primary sponsor: Peggy Gossett-Seidman (Republican), John Snyder (Republican), Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee, State Affairs Committee. It lists 47 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (May 23, 2025): Chapter No. 2025-76.

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.

State Land Management; Requiring public hearings for all updated conservation and nonconservation land management plans; requiring the Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection to make available to the public, within a specified timeframe, electronic copies of land management plans for parcels of a certain size and for parcels located in state parks; revising the duties of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection; specifying requirements for the management of parks and recreational areas held by the state; requiring the division to comply with specified provisions when granting certain privileges, leases, concessions, and permits; authorizing the division to acquire, install, or permit the installation or operation at state parks of campsites and cabins that meet certain requirements; prohibiting the division from authorizing certain uses or construction activities within a state park; prohibiting the division from installing or permitting the installation of any lodging establishment within the boundaries of a state park; requiring that individual management plans for parcels located within state parks be developed with input from an advisory group; requiring that the advisory group's required public hearings be noticed to the public within a specified timeframe, etc.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 18 · Republican 28

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Peggy Gossett-SeidmanPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse91
John SnyderPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse86
Natural Resources & Disasters SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
State Affairs CommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Adam AndersonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse57
Doug BanksonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse39
Webster BarnabyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse29
Robin BartlemanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse103
Fabián BasabeCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse106
Kim BerfieldCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse58
Dean BlackCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse15
Erika BoothCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse35
James BuchananCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Daryl CampbellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse99
CaselloCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Linda ChaneyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse61
Nan CobbCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse26
Bill ConerlyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse72
Lindsay CrossCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse60
Fentrice DriskellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse67
Lisa DunkleyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse97
Anna EskamaniCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Gallop FranklinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse8
Richard GentryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse27
J.J. GrowCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse23
Rita HarrisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Dianne Hart-LowmanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse63
Yvonne HinsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse21
HodgersCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Christine HunschofskyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse95
Chad JohnsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse22
Dotie JosephCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse108
Kim KendallCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse18
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Fiona McFarlandCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse73
Danny NixCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse75
Toby OverdorfCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse85
Rachel PlakonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse36
Susan PlasenciaCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse37
Juan PorrasCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse119
Mike RedondoCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse118
Will RobinsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse71
Mitch RosenwaldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse98
Kelly SkidmoreCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse92
Allison TantCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse9
TempleCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Debra TendrichCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse89
Dana TrabulsyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse84
Meg WeinbergerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse94
Marie WoodsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse105
Taylor YarkoskyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse25

“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. Chapter No. 2025-76
  2. Approved by Governor
  3. Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
  4. Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
  5. CS passed as amended; YEAS 112, NAYS 0
  6. Amendment 592460 Concur
  7. Senate Message List
  8. In Messages
  9. CS passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
  10. Read 3rd time
  11. Amendment(s) adopted (592460)
  12. Read 2nd time

Showing 12 most recent of 40 actions. Full history

Sources

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