Florida legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Florida H703: Utility Relocation
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
Requiring that a specified amount of communications services tax remittances be distributed by the Department of Revenue by a nonoperating transfer to the Department of Commerce in monthly installments to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Department of Commerce for the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program; revising the percentage by which a certain amount transferred into the Local Government Half-cent Sales Tax Clearing Trust Fund must be reduced, beginning on a certain date; authorizing a service provider to apply to the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program for reimbursement of relocation expenses; creating the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program within the Department of Commerce; providing the purpose of the program; requiring the Department of Revenue to deposit certain proceeds into a specified trust fund to fund the program beginning on a certain date; providing an appropriation, etc.
Sponsors
- Commerce Committee · primary sponsor
- Robinson, Will (R, HD-071) · primary sponsor
- Webster Barnaby (R, HD-027)
Votes
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#41 (April 30, 2025): 37 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Third Reading RCS#254 (April 25, 2025): 106 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Commerce Committee (April 7, 2025): 23 yea, 1 nay, passed
- House Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee (March 12, 2025): 18 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is H703?
- H703 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Utility Relocation.
- What does H703 do?
- Requiring that a specified amount of communications services tax remittances be distributed by the Department of Revenue by a nonoperating transfer to the Department of Commerce in monthly installments to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund within the Department of Commerce for the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program; revising the percentage by which a certain amount transferred into the Local Government Half-cent Sales Tax Clearing Trust Fund must be reduced, beginning on a certain date; authorizing a service provider to apply to the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program for reimbursement of relocation expenses; creating the Utility Relocation Reimbursement Grant Program within the Department of Commerce; providing the purpose of the program; requiring the Department of Revenue to deposit certain proceeds into a specified trust fund to fund the program beginning on a certain date; providing an appropriation, etc.