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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 481: Anchoring Limitation Areas

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 481 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Anchoring Limitation Areas. Primary sponsor: Lopez, V., Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee, State Affairs Committee. It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (May 20, 2025): Chapter No. 2025-39.

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.

Anchoring Limitation Areas; Restricts local regulation of vessels outside marked boundaries of mooring fields in certain counties; designates specified sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County as grandfathered-in anchoring limitation areas; increases prohibited anchoring & mooring distance of vessels & floating structures near public mooring fields.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lopez, V.Primary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Natural Resources & Disasters SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
State Affairs CommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Alex RizoCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse112

“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. 2025-39
  2. Approved by Governor
  3. Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
  4. Ordered enrolled
  5. In Messages
  6. CS passed; YEAS 29 NAYS 8
  7. Read 3rd time
  8. Placed on 3rd reading
  9. Amendment(s) failed (134212)
  10. Read 2nd time
  11. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/29/25
  12. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

Showing 12 most recent of 40 actions. Full history

Sources

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