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FL S1792

Bill

Status

Failed

6/16/2025

Primary Sponsor

Environment and Natural Resources

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands Florida's conservation land acquisition purposes to include protecting dry sandy beaches and providing public parking and ancillary facilities for public beach access
  • Requires the Division of State Lands and the Office of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas to establish a pilot program inventorying existing dry sandy beaches, including assessing public access deficiencies and developing criteria for prioritizing acquisition of privately owned beach parcels, with emphasis on heavily populated counties
  • Increases the Acquisition and Restoration Council from 10 to 12 voting members, adding a specialist in beach and shore preservation and the director of the Office of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas as new members
  • Adds "dry sandy beaches" to the definition of "conservation purposes" for property tax exemptions and exempts dry sandy beach parcels from the 40-contiguous-acre minimum requirement for such exemptions
  • Adds a representative from the Office of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas to regional land management review teams and includes dry sandy beaches in the state's comprehensive 5-year conservation plan, with an effective date of July 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Dry Sandy Beaches

Last Action

Died in Finance and Tax

6/16/2025

Committee Referrals

Finance and Tax3/26/2025

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