Florida legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Florida H481: Anchoring Limitation Areas
Status: Chaptered, May 20, 2025
Restricts local regulation of vessels outside marked boundaries of mooring fields in certain counties; designates specified sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County as grandfathered-in anchoring limitation areas; increases prohibited anchoring & mooring distance of vessels & floating structures near public mooring fields.
Sponsors
- State Affairs Committee · primary sponsor
- Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee · primary sponsor
- Vicki Lopez (R, HD-113) · primary sponsor
- Rizo, Alex (R, HD-112)
Votes
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#55 (April 30, 2025): 29 yea, 8 nay, passed
- Senate Rules (April 21, 2025): 16 yea, 7 nay, passed
- House: Third Reading RCS#91 (April 16, 2025): 115 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House State Affairs Committee (April 2, 2025): 25 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee (March 11, 2025): 18 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is H481?
- H481 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Anchoring Limitation Areas.
- What does H481 do?
- Restricts local regulation of vessels outside marked boundaries of mooring fields in certain counties; designates specified sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County as grandfathered-in anchoring limitation areas; increases prohibited anchoring & mooring distance of vessels & floating structures near public mooring fields.
- What is the status of H481?
- Chaptered as of May 20, 2025.
- Who sponsored H481?
- State Affairs Committee, with 3 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for H481?
- On the Florida Legislature website: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/481
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