Florida SB 1628: Out-of-school and In-school Suspension

Bill Text

1628 
Net-zero Policies by Governmental Entities 
2026-01-28T11:20:10Z 
Prohibiting governmental entities from adopting or requiring the adoption of net-zero policies; prohibiting governmental entities from expending government funds to support, implement, or advance net-zero policies; prohibiting governmental entities from imposing taxes, fees, penalties, charges, offsets, or assessments to advance net-zero policies; prohibiting governmental entities from implementing, administering, or enforcing a program that functions as a cap-and-trade program or has such effect, etc. 
Committee Substitute 1 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for SB 1628 

 By the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; and 
 Senator Avila 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to net-zero policies by governmental 
 3 entities; creating s. 377.817, F.S.; defining terms; 
 4 providing legislative findings; providing a 
 5 declaration of state policy; prohibiting governmental 
 6 entities from adopting or requiring the adoption of 
 7 net-zero policies; prohibiting governmental entities 
 8 from expending government funds to support, implement, 
 9 or advance net-zero policies; specifying prohibited 
 10 expenditures; prohibiting governmental entities from 
 11 imposing taxes, fees, penalties, charges, offsets, or 
 12 assessments to advance net-zero policies; prohibiting 
 13 governmental entities from implementing, 
 14 administering, or enforcing a program that functions 
 15 as a cap-and-trade program or has such effect; 
 16 requiring the Department of Environmental Protection 
 17 to require a specified annual affidavit from all 
 18 governmental entities; providing applicability; 
 19 amending ss. 125.01, 166.021, and 166.201, F.S.; 
 20 conforming provisions to changes made by the act; 
 21 providing an effective date. 
 22 
 23 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 24 
 25 Section 1. Section 377.817, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 26 read: 
 27 377.817 Net-zero and carbon policies, expenditures, taxes, 
 28 assessments, or trade programs; prohibition.— 
 29 (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 
 30 (a) “Business activity” means any activity or series of 
 31 activities that: 
 32 1. Involve the emission of a greenhouse gas or a 
 33 combination thereof; and 
 34 2. Form a single undertaking or enterprise with regard to 
 35 any relevant circumstances. 
 36 (b) “Carbon dioxide” means a naturally occurring gas 
 37 composed of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms that occurs as 
 38 a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, or coal; 
 39 a byproduct of burning biomass; a byproduct of land use changes; 
 40 or a byproduct of industrial processes. 
 41 (c) “Carbon dioxide equivalent emissions” means the number 
 42 of metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions with the same global 
 43 warming potential as one metric ton of another greenhouse gas. 
 44 (d) “Carbon-intensive activity” means any business activity 
 45 or other activity performed by a person which supports any of 
 46 the following: 
 47 1. The movement of people or goods through methods of 
 48 transportation, including automobiles, commercial vehicles, 
 49 freight haulers, aircraft, vessels, pipelines, delivery devices, 
 50 and similar methods, and the use of energy resources to power or 
 51 operate such transportation methods. 
 52 2. The creation or transmission of energy resources for the 
 53 following commercial and residential uses: electricity; 
 54 manufacturing; sustaining human life, including refrigeration 
 55 and cooling in enclosed or partially enclosed spaces; waste 
 56 management; or the operation or manufacturing of appliances for 
 57 human use. 
 58 3. The performance of activities to support the production 
 59 of a carbon-intensive product, including farming, agriculture, 
 60 hunting and gathering, or the taking of fish and wildlife to 
 61 sustain human life. 
 62 4. The operation or purchase of a vessel for transporting a 
 63 person or an object by use of an energy source. 
 64 5. The use of methods authorized by authorities to take 
 65 fish and wildlife resources. 
 66 6. The mining, exploration, or manufacturing of products to 
 67 support the continued livelihood of mankind. 
 68 (e) “Carbon-intensive product” means any of the following, 
 69 including a product containing a component of such: 
 70 1. Products containing iron; steel; steel mill products, 
 71 including pipe and tube; aluminum; cement; glass, including 
 72 flat, container, and specialty glass and fiberglass; oil or a 
 73 component thereof; minerals and metals; pulp; and paper. 
 74 2. An agricultural commodity or product, whether raw or 
 75 processed, including a commodity or product derived from 
 76 livestock which is marketed in the United States for human or 
 77 livestock consumption. The term also includes agricultural, 
 78