Florida SB 56: Coverage for Skin Cancer Screenings

Bill Text

56 
Residential Impacts from Mining Activities 
2025-09-17T12:27:49Z 
Citing this act as the “Residential Blasting Safety and Transparency Act”; providing that the Division of State Fire Marshal retains sole and exclusive authority to adopt standards, limits, and regulations for explosives used for certain mining activities; requiring certain persons to monitor and record blast sites; revising the administrative procedures and remedies for filing a petition for alleged damage due to the use of explosives in connection with construction materials, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
__ 

 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 56 

 By Senator Sharief 

 35-00140-26 202656__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to residential impacts from mining 
 3 activities; providing a short title; amending s. 
 4 552.30, F.S.; providing legislative findings; defining 
 5 terms; providing that the Division of State Fire 
 6 Marshal retains sole and exclusive authority to adopt 
 7 standards, limits, and regulations for explosives used 
 8 for certain mining activities; authorizing the 
 9 delegation of such authority to specified entities; 
 10 providing maximum blasting limits for areas inside and 
 11 outside of residential protection zones; requiring 
 12 certain persons to monitor and record blast sites; 
 13 requiring such monitoring and recording to capture 
 14 certain information by instruments that are certified 
 15 annually; requiring raw and summary data for a blast 
 16 site to be posted on the division’s website and made 
 17 available to the public within a specified timeframe; 
 18 requiring such data to be retained for a specified 
 19 timeframe; requiring an operator to provide specific 
 20 notice of each blasting window to addressees within a 
 21 specified distance of the blast site; requiring the 
 22 operator and the local government to prominently 
 23 display links on their websites to direct residents to 
 24 register for such notice; requiring an operator to 
 25 post a monthly blasting schedule on the division’s 
 26 website; restricting blasting to specific days and 
 27 times; requiring an operator to fund a third-party 
 28 pre-blast survey upon request by certain persons; 
 29 requiring an operator to provide a post-blast survey 
 30 under certain circumstances; requiring a post-blast 
 31 survey vendor to be independent of the operator; 
 32 requiring the State Fire Marshal to carry out a 
 33 specific duty; authorizing local governments that 
 34 receive delegation to install and operate their own 
 35 seismographs; authorizing such local governments to 
 36 recover reasonable costs; providing civil and criminal 
 37 penalties for violations of the act; requiring the 
 38 State Fire Marshal to adopt rules within a specified 
 39 timeframe; amending s. 552.40, F.S.; revising the 
 40 administrative procedures and remedies for filing a 
 41 petition for alleged damage due to the use of 
 42 explosives in connection with construction materials; 
 43 removing and prohibiting a fee for filing a petition; 
 44 providing that the Division of Administrative Hearings 
 45 has exclusive jurisdiction over such claims; providing 
 46 that a prevailing petitioner is entitled to reasonable 
 47 attorney fees and costs; creating a rebuttable 
 48 presumption against an operator if certain information 
 49 is shown; providing that an operator may overcome the 
 50 presumption with clear and convincing evidence; 
 51 reenacting s. 552.38(1), F.S., relating to security 
 52 requirements to obtain a license to conduct 
 53 construction materials mining activities, to 
 54 incorporate the amendment made to s. 552.30, F.S., in 
 55 a reference thereto; providing an effective date. 
 56 
 57 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 58 
 59 Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Residential 
 60 Blasting Safety and Transparency Act.” 
 61 Section 2. Section 552.30, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 62 read: 
 63 (Substantial rewording of section. 
 64 See s. 552.30, F.S., for present text.) 
 65 552.30 Construction materials mining activities.— 
 66 (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.—The Legislature finds that 
 67 construction materials mining is vital to Florida’s 
 68 infrastructure but must be conducted in a manner that protects 
 69 nearby residences and critical facilities. Existing standards 
 70 reference the United States Bureau of Mines Report of 
 71 Investigations (RI) 8507 Structure Response and Damage Produced 
 72 by Ground Vibration From Surface Mine Blasting but do not fully 
 73 account for chronic impacts in dense urban settings. It is in 
 74 the public interest to adopt enhanced residential protections, 
 75 transparent monitoring, and timely notice. 
 76 (2) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the term: 
 77 (a) “Blast survey” means an inspection that documents the 
 78 existing conditions of nearby properties before an operator 
 7