Florida SB 508: Public Assistance

Bill Text

508 
Landscape Irrigation 
2025-11-14T11:26:43Z 
Creating the “Landscape Irrigation Standards and Watering Restrictions Act”; prohibiting a person from taking certain actions regarding a landscape irrigation system unless such person is a licensed irrigation contractor or the property owner; specifying that only a licensed irrigation contractor may connect an irrigation system to a water supply; providing a purpose for landscape irrigation system standards; creating a landscape irrigation watering schedule; providing for the enforcement of the act, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 508 

 By Senator Truenow 

 13-00374B-26 2026508__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to landscape irrigation; creating s. 
 3 373.1861, F.S.; providing a short title; creating s. 
 4 373.1862, F.S.; providing legislative intent and 
 5 purpose; providing applicability; creating s. 
 6 373.1863, F.S.; defining terms; creating s. 373.1864, 
 7 F.S.; providing legislative findings; prohibiting a 
 8 person from taking certain actions regarding a 
 9 landscape irrigation system unless such person is a 
 10 licensed irrigation contractor or the property owner; 
 11 authorizing specified entities to adopt more stringent 
 12 standards for a property owner who installs a 
 13 landscape irrigation system; specifying that only a 
 14 licensed irrigation contractor may connect an 
 15 irrigation system to a water supply; providing 
 16 requirements for a licensed irrigation contractor to 
 17 obtain a landscape irrigation permit; requiring a 
 18 licensed irrigation contractor to create a landscape 
 19 irrigation plan design drawing; providing requirements 
 20 for such plan design drawings; providing requirements 
 21 for landscape irrigation plans; requiring a licensed 
 22 irrigation contractor to submit the landscape 
 23 irrigation system permit application and plan to 
 24 specified entities before building construction 
 25 commences; requiring a licensed irrigation contractor 
 26 to provide specified entities with certain information 
 27 before being issued a landscape irrigation permit; 
 28 creating s. 373.1865, F.S.; providing a purpose for 
 29 landscape irrigation system standards; requiring that 
 30 landscape irrigation systems be divided into specified 
 31 zones; providing requirements for such zones; 
 32 requiring that landscape irrigation systems be 
 33 designed to use the lowest quality water; providing 
 34 spacing requirements for landscape irrigation system 
 35 sprinklers; providing requirements for landscape 
 36 irrigation equipment, capacity, and accessories; 
 37 prohibiting high-volume irrigation areas from 
 38 exceeding a certain percentage of the total irrigated 
 39 area; authorizing the use of low-volume irrigation 
 40 areas in certain circumstances; prohibiting the 
 41 installation of risers; requiring a minimum distance 
 42 between distribution equipment and impervious 
 43 surfaces; requiring that landscape irrigation systems 
 44 use micro-irrigation in landscape beds under certain 
 45 circumstances; creating s. 373.1866, F.S.; creating a 
 46 landscape irrigation watering schedule; providing a 
 47 limitation for landscape irrigation watering; 
 48 providing a timeframe within which the owner of a new 
 49 irrigation system must adopt the watering schedule; 
 50 requiring a licensed irrigation contractor who 
 51 installs an irrigation system to provide the owners or 
 52 users of such system with certain information; 
 53 authorizing a local government to grant a variance 
 54 from the watering schedule under certain 
 55 circumstances; prohibiting a local government from 
 56 granting a variance under certain circumstances; 
 57 providing exceptions from landscape irrigation 
 58 watering schedules; providing requirements for a spray 
 59 sprinkler body; prohibiting a person from taking 
 60 certain actions regarding a sprinkler body, beginning 
 61 on a specified date; creating s. 373.1867, F.S.; 
 62 providing for the enforcement of the act; providing 
 63 for fines and penalties; providing that regular 
 64 maintenance and replacement of certain components is 
 65 not a violation of the act under certain 
 66 circumstances; prohibiting enforcement officials from 
 67 providing more than one written warning before 
 68 assessing a fine; authorizing a local government to 
 69 take certain action to enforce this section; creating 
 70 s. 373.1868, F.S.; providing for severability; 
 71 prohibiting a governmental entity from adopting or 
 72 attempting to enforce any law, rule, or regulation in 
 73 conflict with the act; creating s. 373.1869, F.S.; 
 74 authorizing the department to adopt rules to implement 
 75 the act; amending s. 373.62, F.S.; conforming 
 76 provisions to changes made by the act; deleting 
 77 obsolete provisions; conforming a provision to changes 
 78 made by the act; amending s. 4