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Florida 2026

SB 250

Rural Communities

Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 03:11:01 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Florida
Session
2026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
(vetoed), industry, public business, public lands and property, subject index
Introduced / first action
2025-11-20 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Rural Communities; Requiring the state land planning agency to give preference for technical assistance funding to local governments located in a rural area of opportunity; revising the conditions required for a county to be considered a fiscally constrained county; creating the Office of Rural Prosperity within the Department of Commerce; requiring the Office of Rural Prosperity to administer the Renaissance Grants Program to provide block grants to eligible communities; creating the Public Infrastructure Smart Technology Grant Program within the Office of Rural Prosperity; creating the Florida Arterial Road Modernization Program within the Department of Transportation, etc. APPROPRIATION: $144,813,977

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Died in Messages; Companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 273 (Ch. 2026-167)

    failure
  2. In Messages

  3. Immediately certified

  4. Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0

    passage
  5. Read 3rd time

    reading-3
  6. Amendment(s) adopted (211610, 655052)

  7. Read 2nd time

    reading-2
  8. Introduced

    introduction
  9. Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/14/26

  10. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

  11. Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 16 NAYS 0

    committee-passage-favorable
  12. On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 12/10/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building

  13. Referred to Appropriations

    referral-committee
  14. Filed

    filing