Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida S290: Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Status: Chaptered, March 24, 2026
Prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; establishing the Florida Food Animal Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program; revising the Florida Forest Service's powers, authority, and duties, etc.
What the bill says
An act relating to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; creating s. 125.489, F.S.; defining the terms âgasoline-powered farm equipmentâ and âgasoline-powered landscape equipmentâ; prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; providing construction; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.…
From the enrolled text, March 3, 2026:
An act relating to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; creating s. 125.489, F.S.; defining the terms âgasoline-powered farm equipmentâ and âgasoline-powered landscape equipmentâ; prohibiting counties from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; providing construction; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.; defining the terms âecologically significant parcelâ and âlow density municipalityâ; amending s. 163.3202, F.S.; prohibiting an application for a development on an ecologically significant parcel in a low-density municipality from being administratively approved without an attestation provided by the developer; specifying requirements for such attestation; providing applicability; specifying requirements for the attestation included in certain applications; providing for a waiver; creating s. 166.063, F.S.; defining the terms âgasoline-powered farm equipmentâ and âgasoline-powered landscape equipmentâ; prohibiting municipalities from enacting or enforcing any law that restricts or prohibits the use of gasoline-powered farm equipment or gasoline-powered landscape equipment or that distinguishes such equipment from any other equipment under certain circumstances; providing construction; amending s. 212.055, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; making a technical change; amending s. 253.0341, F.S.; requiring the Acquisition and Restoration Council to determine whether certain surplused lands are suitable for bona fide agricultural purposes; prohibiting a local governmental entity from transferring future development rights for …