Florida SB 718: Provision of Health Care

Bill Text

718 
Water Management 
2025-12-03T05:39:27Z 
Prohibiting counties and municipalities from adopting laws, regulations, rules, or policies relating to water quality or quantity, pollution control, pollutant discharge prevention or removal, or wetlands; preempting such regulation to the state; repealing a provision relating to land management review teams, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 718 

 By Senator McClain 

 9-00674-26 2026718__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to water management; creating s. 
 3 373.027, F.S.; prohibiting counties and municipalities 
 4 from adopting laws, regulations, rules, or policies 
 5 relating to water quality or quantity, pollution 
 6 control, pollutant discharge prevention or removal, or 
 7 wetlands; preempting such regulation to the state; 
 8 providing applicability and construction; requiring 
 9 the Department of Environmental Protection to notify 
 10 the Chief Financial Officer of certain violations; 
 11 requiring the Chief Financial Officer to withhold 
 12 certain funds; repealing s. 373.591, F.S., relating to 
 13 land management review teams; providing an effective 
 14 date. 
 15 
 16 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 17 
 18 Section 1. Section 373.027, Florida Statutes, is created to 
 19 read: 
 20 373.027 Water management preemption.— 
 21 (1) A county or municipality may not adopt laws, 
 22 regulations, rules, or policies relating to any of the 
 23 following: 
 24 (a) Water quality. 
 25 (b) Water quantity. 
 26 (c) Pollution control. 
 27 (d) Pollutant discharge prevention or removal. 
 28 (e) Wetlands, including any delineation. 
 29 (2) The regulation of water quality, water quantity, 
 30 pollution control, pollutant discharge prevention and removal, 
 31 and wetlands, including any delineation, is exclusively 
 32 preempted to the state. 
 33 (3) This section does not: 
 34 (a) Apply to an interagency or interlocal agreement between 
 35 the department and any agency, water management district, or 
 36 local government conducting programs relating to or materially 
 37 affecting the water resources of the state. 
 38 (b) Affect the authority of a county or municipality to 
 39 regulate and operate its own water system, wastewater system, or 
 40 stormwater system. 
 41 (4) If the department determines that a county or 
 42 municipality is in violation of this section, the department 
 43 shall notify the Chief Financial Officer of the violation, and 
 44 the Chief Financial Officer shall withhold any state funds to 
 45 which the county or municipality may be entitled. 
 46 Section 2. Section 373.591, Florida Statutes, is repealed. 
 47 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.