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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 837: Tax Credits for Investment in Rural Communities

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 837 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Tax Credits for Investment in Rural Communities. Primary sponsor: Kaylee Tuck (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Housing, Agriculture & Tourism 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.

Tax Credits for Investment in Rural Communities; Requires Department of Commerce to accept applications seeking approval as rural fund; specifies application criteria; requires rural fund to collect contributions & investments requires growth fund to send documentation of contributions & investments to department; requires department to provide tax credit certificate against state tax liability; provides restrictions on credit; provides requirements regarding tax certificates; provides mechanism to exit program; requires rural fund to submit report to department annually.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Kaylee TuckPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse83
Rita HarrisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse44

“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 Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  4. Now in Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
  5. Referred to Commerce Committee
  6. Referred to Transportation & Economic Development Budget Subcommittee
  7. Referred to Ways & Means Committee
  8. Referred to Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
  9. Filed

Sources

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