Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 50: Nature-based Methods for Improving Coastal Resilience
Did not advance Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
- Did not advance
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Plain-language summary
SB 50 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on November 20, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Nature-based Methods for Improving Coastal Resilience. Primary sponsor: Ileana Garcia (Republican), Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government. It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Messages.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Nature-based Methods for Improving Coastal Resilience; Specifying that the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation is established within the University of South Florida, rather than within the University of South Florida College of Marine Science; requiring the hub to develop design guidelines and standards for optimal combinations of green and gray infrastructure and to model the effects of conceptual designs of certain green and gray infrastructure; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules for nature-based methods for coastal resilience, etc. APPROPRIATION: $250,000
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ileana Garcia | Primary sponsor | Republican | Senate | 36 |
| Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Avila | Co-sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Died in Messages
- Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- In Messages
- Immediately certified
- CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
- Read 3rd time
- Amendment(s) adopted (384900)
- Read 2nd time
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/19/25
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 24 NAYS 0
- CS by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government read 1st time
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