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2022 SCCF Legislative Session Tracker
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WELCOME to the SCCF 2022 Legislative Session Tracker

Florida’s 2022 - 60 day legislative session began Tuesday, January 11 and is scheduled to end on March 11.  To stay current, SCCF offers you this site to help you track and actively participate in the bills that SCCF is following. If you would like to track individual bills, legislative committees or follow your local legislator through the FL Senate or House of Representatives, there are public services to do so:  The FL Senate Bill Tracker and the FL House of Representatives Bill Tracker.

SCCF tracks the bills related to those affecting Everglades restoration, environmental conservation, harmful algal blooms, water quality and home rule.   See the following link for a full list of our priorities:  SCCF’s 2022 legislative priorities

March 14 - The 2022 FL Legislative Session has ended.

June 3, 2022 - Governor DeSantis signs FY 2022-23 Budget.  Click here for: Budget highlights and line item VETO list

The Governor has between the end of session and the beginning of July when the new State Fiscal year begins to sign all of the bills that passed, let them become law without his signature or veto them.  The legislature sends the bills they’ve passed to the Governor a few at a time - not all at once.  We still have time to ask the Governor to veto some of the worst environmental bills.  Please join us in requesting vetoes of the following bills by clicking on the following links.

June 2, 2022 - Legislature delivers SB 2508 to Governor DeSantis’ desk

ACTION ALERT VETO REQUEST:

  1. Urge Governor DeSantis to VETO the Harmful Water Legislation in SB 2508

     2022 Legislative Session Bill Table

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House Bill

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Bill Title/

Bill Description

SCCF

Position

Support/ Oppose

Final Outcome     (*signed by Governor)

Water Quality

SB 856

Brodeur

HB 309

Fetterhoff/

Giallombardo

Private Provider Inspections of On-site sewage treatment & disposal systems

Passed*

SB 604

Berman

HB 393

Hinson

I

Safe Waterways Act

(Public Bathing Places)

Requires Dept. of Health to post signage around (impaired) waterways that have elevated levels of specified bacteria

S

Failed

SB 834

Brodeur

HB 421

Truenow

S

Long Term Cleanup of Water Bodies

Directs DEP to procure technology for long term clean up of water bodies

Failed

SB 608

Brodeur

HB 303

Truenow

S

Sanitary Sewer Lateral Inspection Program

Evaluate and repair sanitary sewer lines with provisions for access to private property. Funds program w state/local dollars allocated for environmental preservation

Failed

SB 832

Stewart

HB 561

Goff-Marcil

Implementation of Recommendations of the Blue Green Algae Task Force

S

Failed

HB 585

Botana

Caloosahatchee River Watershed

A bill related to land application of biosolids

Failed

SB 904

Farmer

HB 807

Rayner

Agricultural Practices

Requires rater than authorizes FDACS to develop and implement interim measures to achieve certain statewide pollution reduction

Failed

SB 1000

Albritton

HB 1291

McClure

S

Nutrient Application Rates

Allows for presumption of compliance through “rate tailoring” of fertilizer

O

Passed

SB 1426

Burgess

HB 965

Truenow

S

Environmental Management

Allows for private entities to fund, operate and be reimbursed to provide Water Quality Enhancement Areas (WQEA’s), and allows for private contracts to pay for agency employees to process 404 (wetland) permit applications

O

Passed

SB 2508

Appropriations

Environmental Resources

Related to value of state land acquisitions, Lake O regulation schedule administration and private pay to process 404 wetland permits

Passed by Legislature

Vetoed by Governor

Land Acquisition Trust Fund (LATF)/Florida Forever

SB 1816

Stewart

HB 1377

Roth

C

Land Acquisition Trust Fund

Provides for annual appropriation for Florida Forever

S

Failed

SB 1400

Burgess

Land Acquisition Trust Fund

Infrastructure funding for Heartland Headwaters Protection

Failed

Climate Change/Resiliency/Sea Level Rise

SB 442

Rodriguez

HB 571

Mooney

Powers of Land Authorities

Allows Co. Land Authority to assist in State/Fed Sea Level Rise grants

Passed*

SB 1326

Rodriquez

HB 513

Bartelman

Comprehensive Review Study of the Central and Southern Florida Projects

Requires updates on the Water Management Districts findings in the annual sea level rise and flood resiliency plan

Passed*

SB 1238

Polsky

HB 1019

Duggan

Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessments

Requires coastal communities to analyze the effects of saltwater intrusion on their water supplies

Failed

SB 1940

Brodeur

HB 7053

Env., Nat.Res & Flooding

Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience

Establishes a statewide office of Resiliency w/in the Gov. Office

Passed*

Growth Management/Land Use

Energy

SB 366

Berman

HB 81

Eskamani

S

State Renewable Energy Goals

Creates carbon emission reductions, prohibits oil/gas drilling on state lands

Failed

SB 228

Rodriguez

HB 101

Fine

S

Resiliency Energy Env. FL Program

Applies to energy assessment finance agreements

Failed

SB 182

Brandes

Renewable Energy

Related to commercial renewable energy production

Failed

SB 208

Farmer

Well Stimulation

(Fracking Ban)

Failed

SB 380

Rodrigez

HB 463

Melo

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Prohibits adoption/enforcement of local programs to regulate Greenhouse gas emissions

Failed

SB 1024

Bradley

HB 741

McClure

I

Renewable Energy Generation/Net Metering

Proposes new net metering rules

O

Passed/  VETOED

Local Government Preemption

SB 152

Farmer

Super-Majority Vote for Legislative Preemption

Failed

SB 280

Hutson

HB 403

Gialombardo

S

Local Ordinances

Awards court costs/damages in civil actions against Local Gov’ts/requires business impact statement before adopting local ordinances

O

Failed

HB 6019

Eskamani

Preemption of Over the Counter Drug and Cosmetics

Repeals previously adopted preemption

Failed

SB 316

Stewart

HB 6025

Eskamani

Preemption of Tree Pruning, Trimming and Removal

Repeals previously adopted preemption

Failed

SB 620

Hutson

HB 569

Comm. bill/McClure

S

Local Government

Allows businesses to sue local govt.for losses caused by local ordinances

O

Passed/

VETOED

Everglades

SB 932

Rodriguez

HB 729

Aloupis

I

Everglades Protection Area

Requires plans and additional review for development near and in the Everglades Protection Area

S

Failed

Ecosystem Restoration

SB 198

Rodriguez

HB 349

Sirois

S

Seagrass Mitigation Banks

Establish program, provide for construction

O

Failed

SB 238

Jones

Endangered or Threatened Species

Protects certain species regardless of Federal status

Failed

SB 864

Ausley

HB 1013

Learned

Cost Share for Ag. Shellfish & Timber

Conduct a study and reimburse industries for their ecosystem services

Failed

HB 6003

Eskamani

Legal Rights of Nature

Failed

(table updated 6/30/22)

To view the previous week’s meeting schedule, click: 2022 Weekly Archive

For action from the 2021 Legislative Session, click: 2021 Legislative Tracker