Florida legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Florida S1662: Transportation
Status: Chaptered, June 23, 2025
Authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to appoint a specified number of assistant secretaries; creating the Florida Transportation Research Institute; providing that certain spaceport and space industry-related facility projects and commercial shipbuilding and manufacturing facility projects are eligible for grant funding under the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Program; authorizing the department, in consultation with the Department of Commerce and the Department of Environmental Protection, to fund certain infrastructure projects and projects associated with certain critical infrastructure projects; requiring airports to provide the Department of Transportation with the opportunity to use certain airport property for a specified purpose during a declared state of emergency, etc.
Sponsors
- Appropriations · primary sponsor
- Transportation · primary sponsor
- Jay Collins (R, SD-014) · primary sponsor
Votes
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#58 (April 30, 2025): 37 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Third Reading RCS#276 (April 29, 2025): 103 yea, 7 nay, passed
- Senate: Third Reading RCS#22 (April 23, 2025): 37 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate Appropriations (April 17, 2025): 16 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development (April 10, 2025): 14 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate Transportation (March 25, 2025): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is S1662?
- S1662 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Transportation.
- What does S1662 do?
- Authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to appoint a specified number of assistant secretaries; creating the Florida Transportation Research Institute; providing that certain spaceport and space industry-related facility projects and commercial shipbuilding and manufacturing facility projects are eligible for grant funding under the Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Program; authorizing the department, in consultation with the Department of Commerce and the Department of Environmental Protection, to fund certain infrastructure projects and projects associated with certain critical infrastructure projects; requiring airports to provide the Department of Transportation with the opportunity to use certain airport property for a specified purpose during a declared state of emergency, etc.