Florida SB 290: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Bill Text

290 
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 
2026-03-03T06:29:50Z 
Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service’s powers, authority, and duties, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to the Department of Agriculture and 
 3 Consumer Services; creating s. 125.489, F.S.; defining 
 4 the terms “gasoline-powered farm equipment” and 
 5 “gasoline-powered landscape equipment”; prohibiting 
 6 counties from enacting or enforcing any law that 
 7 restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered 
 8 farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment 
 9 or that distinguishes such equipment from any other 
 10 equipment under certain circumstances; providing 
 11 construction; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.; defining the 
 12 terms “ecologically significant parcel” and “low 
 13 density municipality”; amending s. 163.3202, F.S.; 
 14 prohibiting an application for a development on an 
 15 ecologically significant parcel in a low-density 
 16 municipality from being administratively approved 
 17 without an attestation provided by the developer; 
 18 specifying requirements for such attestation; 
 19 providing applicability; specifying requirements for 
 20 the attestation included in certain applications; 
 21 providing for a waiver; creating s. 166.063, F.S.; 
 22 defining the terms “gasoline-powered farm equipment” 
 23 and “gasoline-powered landscape equipment”; 
 24 prohibiting municipalities from enacting or enforcing 
 25 any law that restricts or prohibits the use of 
 26 gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered 
 27 landscape equipment or that distinguishes such 
 28 equipment from any other equipment under certain 
 29 circumstances; providing construction; amending s. 
 30 212.055, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; making a 
 31 technical change; amending s. 253.0341, F.S.; 
 32 requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to 
 33 determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable 
 34 for bona fide agricultural purposes; prohibiting a 
 35 local governmental entity from transferring future 
 36 development rights for surplused lands determined to 
 37 be suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; 
 38 requiring the Department of Environmental Protection, 
 39 in coordination with the Department of Agriculture and 
 40 Consumer Services, to determine whether certain state 
 41 owned conservation lands are suitable for bona fide 
 42 agricultural purposes; authorizing the Department of 
 43 Environmental Protection to surplus certain state 
 44 owned lands determined to be suitable for bona fide 
 45 agricultural purposes; requiring the Department of 
 46 Environmental Protection to retain a rural-lands 
 47 protection easement for such surplused lands; 
 48 requiring that all proceeds from the sale of such 
 49 surplused lands be deposited in the Department of 
 50 Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Incidental Trust 
 51 Fund for less than fee simple; requiring the 
 52 Department of Environmental Protection to annually 
 53 provide a report of such surplused lands to the Board 
 54 of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; 
 55 prohibiting certain lands from being surplused; 
 56 amending s. 259.1053, F.S.; deleting provisions 
 57 relating to the Babcock Ranch Advisory Group; amending 
 58 s. 287.1351, F.S.; revising circumstances under which 
 59 a vendor is prohibited from submitting a bid, 
 60 proposal, or reply to an agency or from entering into 
 61 or renewing any contract to provide goods or services 
 62 to an agency; amending s. 322.12, F.S.; providing 
 63 penalties for an applicant for a commercial driver 
 64 license who receives unauthorized assistance on 
 65 certain portions of the examination; amending s. 
 66 322.36, F.S.; prohibiting a person from knowingly or 
 67 willfully providing unauthorized assistance to an 
 68 applicant for the examination required to hold a 
 69 commercial driver license; repealing ss. 377.71, 
 70 377.711, and 377.712, F.S., relating to definitions 
 71 and the Southern States Energy Compact, Florida as 
 72 party to the Southern States Energy Compact, and 
 73 Florida’s participation in the Southern States Energy 
 74 Board, respectively; amending s. 403.0855, F.S.; 
 75 deleting a provision relating to legislative approval 
 76 of certain rules adopted