Legislative record

SB 250STATE · FloridaFailed

Rural Communities

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

Voted 3/13/2026View source

Roll-call record

How representatives voted

39 yea·0 nay

Docket history

Action history

  1. 3/13/2026Died in Messages; Companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 273 (Ch. 2026-167)
  2. 3/13/2026Died in Messages
  3. 1/14/2026Read 2nd time
  4. 1/14/2026Amendment(s) adopted (211610, 655052)
  5. 1/14/2026Read 3rd time
  6. 1/14/2026Passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
  7. 1/14/2026Immediately certified
  8. 1/14/2026In Messages
  9. 1/13/2026Introduced
  10. 1/12/2026Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/14/26