Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 818: Utility Relocation
In committee Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
SB 818 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 18, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Utility Relocation. Primary sponsor: Stan McClain (Republican), Transportation, Rules, Appropriations. Most recent recorded action (April 30, 2025): Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 703 (Ch. 2025-122).
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.
Utility Relocation; Requiring that a specified amount of communications services tax remittances be distributed by the Department of Revenue by a nonoperating transfer to the Department of Commerce in monthly installments to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Department of Commerce for the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program; revising the percentage by which a certain amount transferred into the Local Government Half-cent Sales Tax Clearing Trust Fund must be reduced, beginning on a certain date; specifying that a county or municipal authority is not responsible for paying the expense properly attributable to such work except as otherwise provided; creating the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program within the Department of Commerce; providing the purpose of the program, etc. APPROPRIATION: $50,000,000
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stan McClain | Primary sponsor | Republican | Senate | 9 |
| Transportation | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Rules | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Appropriations | Primary 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
- Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 703 (Ch. 2025-122)
- Substituted CS/HB 703
- Read 2nd time
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/30/25
- CS/CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- CS/CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 17 NAYS 0
- On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 110 Senate Building
- Now in Appropriations
- Remaining references corrected to Appropriations
Showing 12 most recent of 26 actions. Full history