Florida SB 1810: Ownership of Single-family Residential Property by Business Entities

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1810 
Bob Graham Day 
2026-03-03T04:10:29Z 
Designating August 9, 2026, as “Bob Graham Day” in the State of Florida, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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Resolution 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 (NP) SR 1810 

 By Senator Gaetz 

 1-03254-26 20261810__ 
 1 Senate Resolution 
 2 A resolution designating August 9, 2026, as “Bob 
 3 Graham Day” in the State of Florida. 
 4 
 5 WHEREAS, born on November 9, 1936, Daniel Robert “Bob” 
 6 Graham was raised on a cattle and dairy farm deep in the Florida 
 7 Everglades, attended Miami Senior High School, earned his 
 8 bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of 
 9 Florida in 1959, and earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law 
 10 School in 1962, and 
 11 WHEREAS, after serving in both the Florida House of 
 12 Representatives and the Florida Senate, Bob Graham was elected 
 13 as Florida’s 38th Governor in 1978, and his career in state 
 14 politics enabled him personally to witness Florida’s rise from a 
 15 rural Southern backwater to an economic and political 
 16 juggernaut, and 
 17 WHEREAS, in Governor Graham’s first term, led by First Lady 
 18 Adele Graham, Florida became a national leader in providing in 
 19 home services to seniors, creating a statewide network of 
 20 services, assuring access to assistance for needy elders in 
 21 metropolitan areas and to those in the most rural of Florida’s 
 22 counties, and allowing more families to live out their days at 
 23 home, and 
 24 WHEREAS, in 1979, Governor Graham instituted the 
 25 Conservation and Recreation Act, the premier land acquisition 
 26 program in the country, which led to the Preservation 2000 
 27 Program and the current Florida Forever Program, and 
 28 WHEREAS, in 1981, Governor Graham established the Save Our 
 29 Rivers program, which raised $320 million over 10 years and 
 30 enabled the water management districts to acquire 1.7 million 
 31 acres of land for water conservation; established the Save Our 
 32 Coast program, which resulted in the purchase of 73 miles of 
 33 coastline, protecting natural Florida beauty for future 
 34 generations; and, with singer Jimmy Buffett, founded Save the 
 35 Manatee, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation 
 36 and recovery of the manatee species as defined by the federal 
 37 Endangered Species Act of 1973, and 
 38 WHEREAS, in 1982, Governor Graham, together with renowned 
 39 environmental champion Marjory Stoneman Douglas and others, 
 40 developed what became the Save Our Everglades program to restore 
 41 Everglades National Park, which was announced on August 9, 1983, 
 42 and 
 43 WHEREAS, in 1984, Governor Graham signed into law the 
 44 Warren Henderson Wetlands Protection Act, Florida’s first law 
 45 directed specifically at preservation and protection of 
 46 wetlands, and 
 47 WHEREAS, at the end of his governorship in 1987, Bob Graham 
 48 was sworn in to the United States Senate, where he was known not 
 49 only for his grasp of domestic issues such as Everglades 
 50 restoration, immigration, and off-shore drilling but also for 
 51 his expertise in foreign policy and intelligence, serving as 
 52 chair of the Intelligence Committee and co-chair of the Joint 
 53 Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After 
 54 the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, and 
 55 WHEREAS, ever mindful of his undergraduate alma mater, 
 56 where he was president of the Epsilon Zeta chapter of Sigma Nu 
 57 fraternity, served as chancellor of the student honor court, and 
 58 was inducted into Blue Key and the University Hall of Fame, Bob 
 59 Graham established the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at 
 60 the University of Florida in 2006 to continue his legacy of 
 61 leadership and public service as well as to train the next 
 62 generations of Florida leaders, and 
 63 WHEREAS, in 2011, Bob Graham established the Florida 
 64 Conservation Coalition, composed of concerned Floridians 
 65 representing various organizations, for the purpose of 
 66 advocating for positive environmental initiatives and opposing 
 67 adverse proposals, and 
 68 WHEREAS, throughout his 38 consecutive years in public 
 69 office and nearly 20 years thereafter as an author, a speaker, 
 70 and an advocate, Bob Graham worked tirelessly to further 
 71 environmental preservation, economic opportunity, public 
 72 education, national security, and civil rights, and his 
 73 outstanding record of service has established Bob Graham as one 
 74 of the most accomplished public figures in the history of this 
 75 state, NOW, THEREFORE, 
 76 
 77 Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida: 
 78 
 79 That, in recognition of the date on which the Save Our 
 80 Everglades program was founded, August 9, 2026, is designated as 
 81 “Bob Graham Day” in the State of Florida.