Florida · Senate Bill 866 · 2025 Regular Session

Anchoring Limitation Areas

  1. Introduced Feb 19, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 28, 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.

Anchoring Limitation Areas ; Restricting local regulation of vessels outside the marked boundaries of mooring fields in certain counties and areas of critical state concern; designating specified sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County as grandfathered-in anchoring limitation areas; increasing the prohibited anchoring and mooring distance of vessels and floating structures near public mooring fields, etc.

Every action

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

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules · Senate Environment and Natural Resources
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/25/25, 11:00 am, 110 Senate Building · Senate Environment and Natural Resources
  5. CommitteeFavorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 7 NAYS 1 · Senate Environment and Natural Resources7–1 vote
  6. CommitteeNow in Community Affairs · Senate Community Affairs
  7. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  8. CommitteeDied in Community Affairs, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 481 (Ch. 2025-39) · Senate Community Affairs

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

DateWhereQuestionResult
Mar 25, 2025 Senate committee Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 7 NAYS 1 Passed 7–1

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Florida's official records (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.