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:
2022 Legislative Session Bill Table
Senate Bill even #’s | House Bill odd #’s | I= Identical S= Similar C= Compare | Bill Title/ Bill Description | SCCF Position Support/ Oppose | Final Outcome (*signed by Governor) |
Water Quality | |||||
Brodeur | Fetterhoff/ Giallombardo | Private Provider Inspections of On-site sewage treatment & disposal systems | Passed* | ||
Berman | 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 |
Brodeur | Truenow | S | Long Term Cleanup of Water Bodies Directs DEP to procure technology for long term clean up of water bodies | Failed | |
Brodeur | 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 | |
Stewart | Goff-Marcil | Implementation of Recommendations of the Blue Green Algae Task Force | S | Failed | |
Botana | Caloosahatchee River Watershed A bill related to land application of biosolids | Failed | |||
Farmer | Rayner | Agricultural Practices Requires rater than authorizes FDACS to develop and implement interim measures to achieve certain statewide pollution reduction | Failed | ||
Albritton | McClure | S | Nutrient Application Rates Allows for presumption of compliance through “rate tailoring” of fertilizer | O | Passed |
Burgess | 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 |
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 | |||||
Stewart | Roth | C | Land Acquisition Trust Fund Provides for annual appropriation for Florida Forever | S | Failed |
Burgess | Land Acquisition Trust Fund Infrastructure funding for Heartland Headwaters Protection | Failed | |||
Climate Change/Resiliency/Sea Level Rise | |||||
Rodriguez | Mooney | Powers of Land Authorities Allows Co. Land Authority to assist in State/Fed Sea Level Rise grants | Passed* | ||
Rodriquez | 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* | ||
Polsky | Duggan | Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessments Requires coastal communities to analyze the effects of saltwater intrusion on their water supplies | Failed | ||
Brodeur | 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 | |||||
Berman | Eskamani | S | State Renewable Energy Goals Creates carbon emission reductions, prohibits oil/gas drilling on state lands | Failed | |
Rodriguez | Fine | S | Resiliency Energy Env. FL Program Applies to energy assessment finance agreements | Failed | |
Brandes | Renewable Energy Related to commercial renewable energy production | Failed | |||
Farmer | Well Stimulation (Fracking Ban) | Failed | |||
Rodrigez | Melo | Greenhouse Gas Emissions Prohibits adoption/enforcement of local programs to regulate Greenhouse gas emissions | Failed | ||
Bradley | McClure | I | Renewable Energy Generation/Net Metering Proposes new net metering rules | O | Passed/ VETOED |
Local Government Preemption | |||||
Farmer | Super-Majority Vote for Legislative Preemption | Failed | |||
Hutson | 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 |
Eskamani | Preemption of Over the Counter Drug and Cosmetics Repeals previously adopted preemption | Failed | |||
Stewart | Eskamani | Preemption of Tree Pruning, Trimming and Removal Repeals previously adopted preemption | Failed | ||
Hutson | Comm. bill/McClure | S | Local Government Allows businesses to sue local govt.for losses caused by local ordinances | O | Passed/ VETOED |
Everglades | |||||
Rodriguez | Aloupis | I | Everglades Protection Area Requires plans and additional review for development near and in the Everglades Protection Area | S | Failed |
Ecosystem Restoration | |||||
Rodriguez | Sirois | S | Seagrass Mitigation Banks Establish program, provide for construction | O | Failed |
Jones | Endangered or Threatened Species Protects certain species regardless of Federal status | Failed | |||
Ausley | Learned | Cost Share for Ag. Shellfish & Timber Conduct a study and reimburse industries for their ecosystem services | Failed | ||
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