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1000 Friends of Florida
Dr. John M. DeGrove Webinar Series
2021 Florida Legislative Update
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Presenters
Lester Abberger
Board Member Emeritus and past Chairman of 1000
Friends of Florida
Chairman of the LeRoy Collins Institute for Public
Policy at Florida State University
Past chairman of The Trust for Public Land Florida
Advisory Council, Leadership Florida, City of
Tallahassee Urban Design Commission, and Florida
Endowment for the Humanities, among others
Serves or has served on the boards of a number of
business, charitable, civic, and conservation
concerns
A graduate of Davidson College, where he served on
the Board of Visitors
Was a Knight Fellow at the University of Miami
School of ArchitecturePaul Owens President of 1000 Friends of Florida since 2018 Represented 1000 Friends on the M-CORES Northern Turnpike Corridor Task Force Previously with the Orlando Sentinel, serving as Opinions Editor, writing extensively on growth management, environment and quality of life issues facing Florida Also served as the Sentinel’s Florida Forward Moderator, organizing and moderating public forums on topics including transportation and affordable housing Has a Bachelor of Arts in History with honors from Swarthmore College and a Master of Arts in Journalism from Stanford University
Jane West
Policy and Planning Director for 1000 Friends of Florida
Works with citizens, providing guidance on critical growth
and development issues facing communities across Florida,
advocates before the Florida legislature, and coordinates
legal advocacy efforts related to growth management
Has practiced law for 21 years, for the past 7 years owning
Jane West Law, P.L., focusing on precedent-setting public
interest land use and environmental cases throughout
Florida
AV-rated attorney admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the
7th and 11th U.S. Court of Appeals and the Southern and
Middle Districts of Florida
Previously practiced law in Portland, Maine at
Conservation Law Foundation, and Jupiter and West Palm
Beach, Florida
Law degree from the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova
Southeastern University and B.A.s in both International
Relations and Fine Arts from the University of South
FloridaHaley Busch Outreach Director for 1000 Friends of Florida Promotes sustainable growth through collaboration with civic and conservation organizations Assists in planning local workshops and other informational events statewide Previously the Administrator for the Florida Conservation Coalition A founding board member of the Florida Futures Project, a statewide scholarship competition for high school seniors Graduated from Eckerd College, Phi Beta Kappa (St. Petersburg, Florida), and obtained her master’s degree of Public and Urban Policy from the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Lester Abberger Board Member Emeritus & Past Chair, 1000 Friends of Florida
Legislative Overview • Budget • Governor’s Proposals • Revenue Options • Leadership Priorities • Senator Simpson • Representative Sprawls
Legislative Overview • Resilient Florida • Preemption Plethora • Voting Access Issues • Cabinet Reform Proposals • Reapportionment
Paul Owens President, 1000 Friends of Florida
We Track Dozens of Bills During Session …
• Legislation, budget items tied to
• Statewide planning and growth management
• Local government home rule related to growth
management, conservation
• Statewide land, water protection and conservation
• Transportation
• We don’t take positions on every bill we track
• Many don’t address our core interests
• Many are mix of good and bad elements
• Many evolve through legislative processWekiva River Conservation funding and legislation
Governor’s 2021-22 Budget Proposal
• Includes 3rd $625 million installment of $2.5 billion
first-term pledge for Everglades restoration and
water quality improvement
• $473 million for Everglades projects
• $100 million for cost-share grants for septic conversions
and upgrades, other wastewater improvements, rural and
urban stormwater system upgrades
• $45 million to reduce nutrient pollution in waterways
through green infrastructure or land conservation
Gov. Ron DeSantisAdditional conservation items in
Governor’s Budget Proposal:
• 4-year, $1 billion Resilient Florida program
• Providing grants to adapt “regionally significant assets” to address sea
level rise, stronger storms, flooding
• To be funded through bonds backed by documentary stamp tax revenue
• $50 million for springs restoration (per state law)
• $32 million for infrastructure improvements, resource
management at state parks
• $50 million for Florida Forever
• Half current year’s total
• Fraction of historic $300 million level1000 Friends Conservation Priorities
for 2021 Session
• Lock in annual funding for conservation land protection
through Florida Forever
• Includes Florida Forever Priority List, Rural and
Family Lands Protection Program, and Florida
Communities Trust
• Historic funding was $300 million; funding floor
needed
• Take advantage of historically low interest rates by
extending bonding authority to stretch limited Econlockhatchee River
dollars
• Strengthen process of water protection begun in 2020’s
Clean Waterways ActSome key
conservation
bills …
Silver Glen SpringsSB 1480/HB 1173
Florida Forever Bonds
• Bills would extend bonding authority for Florida
Forever from 2040 to 2054 to allow issuance of 20-
year bonds
• Senate sponsor is Republican chair of Environment Senator Jason Brodeur
and Natural Resources Committee
• House sponsor is Republican member of Agriculture
& Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
• Senate bill through 1 of 3 committees; House bill
currently stalled
• 1000 Friends supports
Representative Rick RothSB 1510/HB 1211
Land Acquisition Trust Fund
• Bills would require at least $100 million a year from
the Land Acquisition Trust Fund to be spent on
Florida Forever
• Both extend bonding authority Senator Linda Stewart
• Senate bill bars use of the funds for agency administrative
expenses
• 1000 Friends advocates this bipartisan approach to
set a floor for Florida Forever, but prefers return to
historic funding level of at least $300 million
• Bills currently stalled in both chambers
Representative Thad AltmanSB 1482/HB 1177
Biscayne Bay
• Establishes Biscayne Bay Commission as
coordinating clearinghouse for public policy related
to Bay, surrounding areas
• Composed of representatives of state, regional, local Senator Ileana Garcia
agencies, business and civic groups
• Adds Biscayne Bay to impaired Florida waterways
where sewage disposal without advanced
wastewater treatment would be prohibited
• Approved by 1 of 3 Senate committees, 2 of 3 House
committees
Representative Bryan AvilaSB 94 Water Storage North of Lake Okeechobee • Requires South Florida Water Management District, partnering with Army Corps of Engineers, to expedite plan for water storage north of Lake Okeechobee, part of Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) • Establishes timetable for aquifer storage and recovery wells to be operating by 2027 • Approved by 1 of 2 Senate committees • No House equivalent Sen. Jason Brodeur • Priority of Senate President Wilton Simpson
SB 722/HB 333
Everglades Protection Area
• Prohibits Department of Environmental Protection
from granting permits for the drilling of wells for oil
or gas within the Everglades Protection Area
• Bars DEP from issuing permits for or constructing Senator Ana Maria Rodriguez
structures intended for the drilling for, or production
of, oil, gas, or other petroleum products within the
Everglades Protection Area
• Up for consideration in first of 3 House committees;
awaiting action in Senate committees
• 1000 Friends supports
Representative Vance
AloupisStalled Conservation Bills
• SB 546: Fracking ban
• Repeals of pre-emptions of local
environmental ordinances
• Tree trimming, pruning, removing (SB
596/HB 6023)
• Plastics bans (SB 594/HB 6027)
• Sunscreen bans (SB 1174/HB 6041)
• Rights of nature provisions (HB 6049)M-CORES
update …
Suncoast Parkway Ridge Road interchangeSB 100 Highway Projects • Repeals 2019 M-CORES authorization for up to 330 miles of toll roads through western rural Florida • Redirects funding to upgrading U.S. 19 from Suncoast Parkway extension to I-10 in Madison County and widening other “arterial highways” • New toll segments remain possible • Declares extending Florida’s Turnpike to be in state’s “strategic interest” without specifying new terminus • Commits FDOT to PDE process, report by end of 2022 Sen. Gayle Harrell
More on SB 100
• Amendment approved by Senate Appropriations calls for
improvements to “preserve the character” of impacted
communities
• Amendment also declares FDOT, FTE will consider
recommendations of “any previous studies or reports
relevant to the projects”
• Awaiting action on Senate floor
• 1000 Friends seeking floor amendments to include more
details from task force recommendations, require need
and feasibility to be established for all projects before
construction, prevent sprawl
M-CORES task force reports
• No House version so far
• Another priority of Senate President SimpsonSB 1030/HB 763
Repeal of M-CORES Program
• Repeals Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic
Significance Program
• Returns funding to general fund, where it would be
available for health care, education, other non- Senator Tina Polsky
transportation related expenses
• Stalled in House and Senate
Representative Ben DiamondJane West Policy & Planning Director, 1000 Friends of Florida
SB 62
Regional Planning Councils
This bill seeks to dismantle all
10 of Florida’s Regional
Planning Councils.
No House Companion.
Sen. Jennifer Bradley, R
1000 Friends OpposesHB 59/SB 496 • A repeat of last year’s SB
410 that Governor
Growth Management DeSantis vetoed.
• This bill would require local
governments to include a
property rights element in
their comprehensive plans,
and would make other
changes to state law
regarding development
orders and municipal
annexations.
Rep. Stan McClain, R
Sen. Keith Perry, R
1000 Friends OpposesHB 403/SB 266 Preemption Bill
This bill would authorize
Home-based Businesses home-based businesses
to operate in
residentially zoned areas
& prevent local
governments from
licensing them and
restrict them in
regulating them in other
areas besides noise,
parking and waste.
Rep. Mike Giallombardo, R
Sen. Keith Perry, R
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SB 750/ HB 337 This bill will restrict impact
fees imposed by local
Impact Fees governments and requires
local governments to
credit against collection of
impact fee any
contribution related to
public facilities. It limits
annual increases on
impact fee increases; and
requires specified entities
to file affidavits attesting
that impact fees were
appropriately collected &
expended.
Rep. Nick DeCeglie, R
Sen. Joe Gruters, R
• 1000 Friends OpposesHB 13/SB 510 •
State Funds
1000 Friends SupportsHB 55/SB 284
Building Design Preemption Bill
This bill would bar local
government design review
and authority for
residential building. This is
NOT an affordable housing
bill.
Rep. Toby Overdorf, R
Sen. Keith Perry, R
1000 Friends OpposesUnique Community
Standard Model Home
CharacterSB 132
Rental of Homestead
Property • This bill would revise
the criteria under
which rental of
homestead property
is allowed for tax
exemption purposes
and not considered
abandoned.
Sen. Travis Hutson, RThis bill would establish the
Statewide Office of Resiliency
within the Executive Office of
the Governor and create a
Statewide Sea-Level Rise Task
Force. A similar bill in the 2020
session failed to become law.
Sen. Ray Rodrigues, R
Rep. Chip LaMarca, R
1000 Friends Supports
SB 514/H 315
Office of ResiliencyPREEMPTION BILL
HB 219/SB 522 • This bill would preempt the
Vacation rentals regulation of vacation
rentals to the state, and
prohibit a local law,
ordinance, or regulation
from allowing or requiring
inspections or licensing of
public lodging
establishments, including
vacation rentals, or public
food service
establishments.
Sen. Manny Diaz, R
Rep. Jason Fischer, RSB 88/HB 1601
This bill would
Farming Operations significantly expand
immunity from
lawsuits for
agricultural operators
from damages claimed
by their neighbors.
Sen. Jason Brouder, R
Rep. Jayer Williamson, R
1000 Friends Opposes
US SugarSB 540
Senate Minority
Supermajority Vote for Leader Gary Farmer
Legislative Preemption proposes amending
the Florida
Constitution to require
a supermajority of
each house to approve
a general law
preempting a subject
of legislation to the
state.
1000 Friends SupportsSB 1876/HB 421 This bill expands the
scope of the Bert
Government Action Affecting Harris Act, limits time
Private Property Rights frames for local
governments to reply
to claims, provides for
a prevailing party
attorney fee provision
against local
government
Sen. Ben Albritton, R
Rep. Kaylee Tuck, R
1000 Friends OpposesSB 426/ HB 267
State Preemption of Seaports PREEMPTION BILL
This bill preempts the
ability of four local
governments from
regulating their
seaports.
Sen. Jim Boyd R
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1000 Friends OpposesSB 674/H 563
Tax Exemption for This bill would authorize
local governments to grant
Affordable Housing ad valorem tax exemptions
to properties that are used
for governmental or public
purpose of providing
affordable housing to
persons or families that
meet the extremely low,
very low and moderate
income levels.
Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez, R
Rep. Anthony Rodriguez, RSB 856/HB 839
State Preemption of Energy Preemption Bill
Originally this bill sought
Infrastructure to preempt to the state
regulation of the
construction of energy
infrastructure. This
would include
infrastructure for oil and
gas, electricity, and solar
and wind but has been
since amended to
prevent local
governments from
banning gas stations.
Sen. Travis Hutson, R
Rep. Tom Fabricio, RSB 1274/ HB 487
Small Scale Development This bill would increase
Amendments the threshold for small
scale comprehensive
plan amendments
from 10 to 50 acres, or
100 acres for sites
within rural areas of
opportunity.
Sen. Keith Perry, R
Rep. Wyman Duggan, R
1000 Friends OpposesSB 1504/HB 1133
Coastal Construction and This bill would require DEP
Preservation to issue permits for sea
walls to property owners
when waves come within
100 feet of their property,
encouraging development
within vulnerable coastal
areas unsuited for it.
Sen. Tom Wright, R
Rep. Tom Leek, R
1000 Friends OpposesHaley Busch Outreach Director, 1000 Friends of Florida
Questions and Answers
Please ask questions! •Click on arrow at top right of your screen to maximize control panel •Click arrow next to “Questions” to maximize the questions box •Please type any questions in this box •Please refer to the slide number and/or speaker when you post your question •Please keep your questions succinct! •Staff will ask the presenters questions, as time permits
The PowerPoint is posted under “What’s New”
at www.1000fof.orgResources for the 2021 Session • Visit 1000 Friends’ Legislative Webpage at 1000fof.org/legis/2021session • Sign up for our email alerts at 1000fof.org/alerts • Join us at our May 12 Legislative Wrap Up Webinar at 1000fof.org/upcoming-webinars • Support our work by making a donation at 1000fof.org/donate
This webinar has been approved for:
Planners 1.5 AICP CM LEGAL CREDITS (#9209903)
Florida attorneys 2.0 CLE credits (#2009557N),
Certified Environmental Health Professionals 1.0 contact hours
Landscape Architects 1.5 hours (DBPR #0012223 Provider #PVD151)
Certified Floodplain Managers 1.0 CEC
In the follow up email for the LIVE WEBINAR you will receive:
A link to a brief survey to help us improve future webinars
A certificate of attendance
(see directions on next slide for Landscape Architects)For Landscape Architects
1000 Friends only provides certificates of attendance for those who
attend the live webinar
1. In the follow up email sent an hour after the live webinar you will receive a certificate
of attendance
2. Use Google Chrome to download the certificate
3. Add the course number, provider number (PVD 151) and your number to the
certificate
4. When the course number is available it will be posted at 1000fof.org/upcoming-
webinars/credits
5. Submit the certificate yourself to DBPR
Florida Landscape Architects – 1000 Friends of Florida Provider #PVD151Upcoming Webinars
Register at www.1000fof.org/upcoming-webinars
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