Florida SB 1014: Public Records/State Banks and State Trust Companies

Bill Text

1014 
Provision of Municipal Utility Service to Owners Outside the Municipal Limits 
2026-02-18T12:17:49Z 
Prohibiting a municipal utility from declining to extend service to properties outside its corporate limits under certain circumstances; requiring a municipal utility to expand its service to an owner who makes such a request under certain circumstances, subject to the utility’s service requirements; requiring the municipal utility to make a determination within a specified timeframe and provide such determination to the owner in writing; requiring the municipal utility to provide the owner with specified information and to connect properties in a timely manner; authorizing a municipal utility to establish minimum application filing requirements, etc. 
Committee Substitute 3 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for CS for CS for SB 1014 

 By the Committees on Rules; Community Affairs; and Regulated 
 Industries; and Senator Mayfield 

 595-02925-26 20261014c3 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the provision of municipal utility 
 3 service to owners outside the municipal limits; 
 4 amending s. 180.19, F.S.; defining terms; prohibiting 
 5 a municipal utility from declining to extend service 
 6 to properties outside its corporate limits under 
 7 certain circumstances; providing an exception; 
 8 requiring a municipal utility to expand its service to 
 9 an owner who makes such a request under certain 
 10 circumstances, subject to the utility’s service 
 11 requirements; requiring the municipal utility to make 
 12 a determination within a specified timeframe and 
 13 provide such determination to the owner in writing; 
 14 requiring the municipal utility to provide the owner 
 15 with specified information and to connect properties 
 16 in a timely manner; authorizing a municipal utility to 
 17 establish minimum application filing requirements; 
 18 authorizing owners to bring a civil action to enforce 
 19 the act; authorizing a prevailing owner to collect 
 20 certain fees and costs; requiring the court to order 
 21 the utility to connect a prevailing owner’s property; 
 22 providing construction; providing an effective date. 
 23 
 24 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 25 
 26 Section 1. Subsection (3) is added to section 180.19, 
 27 Florida Statutes, to read: 
 28 180.19 Use by other municipalities and by individuals 
 29 outside corporate limits.— 
 30 (3)(a) As used in this subsection, the term: 
 31 1. “Controlling municipality” means a municipality 
 32 operating a utility pursuant to subsection (1) or a municipality 
 33 that has granted a utility a privilege or franchise pursuant to 
 34 subsection (2). 
 35 2. “Main line” means a pipe or conduit that transports 
 36 wastewater from, or transports potable water to, lateral lines 
 37 serving multiple properties. The term does not include lateral 
 38 lines, service connections, customer-owned plumbing or piping 
 39 located on private property, or any pipe or conduit serving only 
 40 a single property. 
 41 3. “Municipal utility” means a water or sewer utility 
 42 constituted on the basis of subsection (1) or subsection (2). 
 43 4. “Owner” means a property owner or an association of 
 44 property owners. 
 45 5. “Property” means lots or lands, or, in the case of an 
 46 association of property owners, the contiguous group of lots or 
 47 lands under the association of property owners. 
 48 6. “Sufficient capacity” means a water or sewer utility 
 49 having, as applicable, the infrastructure, water supply, and 
 50 managerial and financial ability to reliably meet current and 
 51 reasonably anticipated future water demands for the treatment or 
 52 disposal of wastewater flows while maintaining compliance with 
 53 applicable state and federal drinking water and wastewater 
 54 standards and requirements. 
 55 (b) A municipal utility may not decline to extend service 
 56 to property outside of its corporate limits on the sole basis 
 57 that the owner refuses to assent or otherwise consent to such 
 58 property being annexed by that municipal utility’s controlling 
 59 municipality, unless the property is subject to an annexation 
 60 agreement or developer agreement on or before July 1, 2026. 
 61 (c) Upon application for service by an owner, a municipal 
 62 utility must expand its service territory to allow an owner 
 63 whose property is located outside of the municipal utility’s 
 64 existing service territory to connect to the municipal utility, 
 65 subject to the utility’s service requirements, if: 
 66 1. The property is not within the service territory of 
 67 another water or wastewater utility, as applicable; 
 68 2. The municipal utility has sufficient capacity to serve 
 69 the property’s anticipated water or wastewater load, as 
 70 applicable; 
 71 3. The property is within 1 mile of a main line of the 
 72 municipal utility, measured