SB 2506-E revises how certain fuel sales tax revenues are distributed in Florida. The bill amends s. 206.606, F.S., to change the amounts and formulas used to transfer money from the Fuel Tax Collection Trust Fund and related fuel tax collections into several state trust funds. These include the State Transportation Trust Fund, the Invasive Plant Control Trust Fund, the State Game Trust Fund, the Agricultural Emergency Eradication Trust Fund, and the Marine Resources Conservation Trust Fund.
The bill also updates the funding structure for boating-related programs and aquatic resource management. It sets fixed annual dollar transfers for invasive plant control, recreational boating activities, freshwater fisheries management and research, and marine resources conservation, and it preserves requirements that some of those funds support local boating infrastructure, derelict vessel removal, and aquatic plant management. The act takes effect July 1, 2026.
The bill changes state law governing the distribution of fuel tax proceeds by replacing several percentage-based allocations with fixed-dollar annual transfers or revised percentages. It affects the flow of revenue into multiple trust funds administered by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Department of Revenue, and it continues to direct fuel-tax-derived money toward transportation, boating, fisheries, invasive plant control, agricultural emergency eradication, and marine conservation purposes.
The available legislative history shows no recorded committee transcript debate or vote details, so there is no direct evidence of controversy in the materials provided. The bill advanced through the Appropriations process and became law as Chapter 2026-230, with a companion bill also passing, which suggests it was generally accepted as part of the state budget and revenue distribution framework.
No specific points of contention are documented in the provided transcripts or votes. Based on the text alone, the most likely areas of interest would be the reallocation of fuel tax revenues among competing trust funds and the shift from percentage-based distributions to fixed annual amounts, which can affect how much funding each program receives as fuel tax collections change. However, the record provided does not identify any named opponents or disputed provisions.