No. CS/HB 479
Filed under Environment & Water.
Land and Water Management; Prohibits counties & municipalities from adopting laws, regulations, rules, policies, or ordinances that prohibit adjacent upland activities that are outside certain wetland buffers; repeals provisions relating to land management review teams.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCounties and cities can no longer ban land uses on upland property once that property sits outside a wetland buffer of at least 15 feet, averaging 25 feet, from the wetland's edge.
Two things survive the preemption: existing interlocal or interagency water-resource agreements with the state, and a local government's own authority over its water, wastewater, or stormwater systems.
Separately, the bill repeals the entire statute setting up land management review teams; its substantive text is not part of this bill's changed language, so it is not detailed here.
AIA county or municipality may not adopt any law, rule, policy, or ordinance that prohibits an upland activity located outside a wetland buffer of at least 15 feet, averaging 25 feet, from the wetland's edge.
AIThe preemption does not override an existing interlocal or interagency agreement between the department and another agency, a water management district, or a local government on state water-resource programs, and it leaves untouched a county or municipality's authority over its own water, wastewater, or stormwater system.
AIRepeals section 373.591 in its entirety. That section's own substantive text is not reproduced in this bill's changed language, so the specific function or authority being eliminated cannot be verified beyond the fact of the repeal itself.