Florida · Senate Bill 1642 · 2025 Regular Session

High-speed Broadband Development Incentives

SB 1642 Sponsored by Mack Bernard Died in committee

  1. Introduced Feb 28, 2025
  2. In committee Mar 7, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

High-speed Broadband Development Incentives; Creating the “Rural Connectivity Innovation Act”; creating a state-funded grant program within the Florida Office of Broadband; requiring the office to give funding priority to specified partnerships and organizations; authorizing farmers in underserved farming communities to receive specified tax credits if certain conditions are met, etc.

Every action

5 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations · Senate Commerce and Tourism
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  5. CommitteeDied in Commerce and Tourism · Senate Commerce and Tourism

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (flsenate.gov), checked Nov 14, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.