Bill Summary

SB 164 Vessel Accountability (2025 Session)
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Sponsors
by Rodriguez  CS Sponsors: Environment and Natural Resources
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Summary
Vessel Accountability; Defining the term “vessel owner”; providing a penalty for a person anchoring, mooring, or allowing certain vessels to occupy the waters of this state if an officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or a law enforcement agency finds that specified conditions exist; requiring the commission to issue, at no cost, a permit for the long-term anchoring of a vessel which includes specified information; requiring the commission to use an electronic application and permitting system; requiring that a vessel subject to a specified number of violations within a 24-month period which result in certain dispositions be declared a public nuisance, etc. Effective Date: Except as otherwise provided in this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2025
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committees of reference
   S Environment and Natural Resources
   S Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
   S Fiscal Policy
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Actions
02/14/25
SENATE
Filed
02/20/25
SENATE
Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
02/24/25
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Environment and Natural Resources, 03/03/25, 3:30 pm, 110 S
03/03/25
SENATE
Favorable with CS by Environment and Natural Resources; 9 Yeas, 0 Nays
03/04/25
SENATE
Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
03/05/25
SENATE
Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
03/13/25
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 03/18/25, 1:00 pm, 412 K
03/18/25
SENATE
Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; 12 Yeas, 0 Nays
03/19/25
SENATE
Now in Fiscal Policy
03/24/25
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Fiscal Policy, 03/27/25, 1:00 pm, 412 K
03/27/25
SENATE
Favorable by Fiscal Policy; 18 Yeas, 0 Nays
03/27/25
SENATE
Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
04/01/25
SENATE
Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/03/25
04/03/25
SENATE
Read Second Time; Amendment Adopted (849776); Read Third Time; Passed (Vote: 37 Yeas / 0 Nays); Immediately certified
04/03/25
SENATE
Engrossed Text (E1) Filed
04/03/25
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bill text & filed amendments
0164
Filed on 02/14/25
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Amendment 446196
Rodriguez
Filed on 02/28/25
Replaced by CS
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Amendment 974618
Rodriguez
Filed on 02/28/25
Replaced by CS
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0164C1
Filed on 03/04/25
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Amendment 849776
Rodriguez
Filed on 04/02/25
Adopted on 2nd Reading
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Amendment 229044
Truenow
Filed on 04/02/25
Withdrawn
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0164E1
Filed on 04/03/25
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No amendments to this bill text filed.
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Statute Citations
327.02
327.04
327.4107
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327.54
327.7
327.73
705.101
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713.585
823.11
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