No. CS/HB 755
Filed under Environment & Water.
Areas of Critical State Concern; Provides exemption from specified payment & performance bond requirements for specified entities; extends specific Florida Forever appropriations to be used for purchase of lands in Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDIn a county that is both a rural area of opportunity and home to an area of critical state concern, oil and gas drilling is now barred within 30 miles of a national estuarine research reserve, three times the normal 10-mile buffer.
The Florida Forever program must keep spending at least $5 million a year on land acquisition in the Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern through the 2035-2036 fiscal year, nine years past the previous cutoff.
A public property owner may now waive the usual payment and performance bond for construction on land it leases to Habitat for Humanity or a local affiliate for 99 years or more within an area of critical state concern.
Waiving the bond does not leave contractors unprotected: they can still place a lien on the Habitat for Humanity leasehold itself, but the underlying publicly owned land stays off-limits to any lien.
AIIn a county that is both a designated rural area of opportunity and home to an area of critical state concern, oil and gas drilling is barred within 30 miles of a national estuarine research reserve, instead of the usual 10-mile buffer.
AIThe Florida Forever program must keep spending at least $5 million a year on land acquisition within the Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern, with the required window now running through the 2035-2036 fiscal year instead of ending in 2026-2027.
AIA public entity that owns land in fee simple may exempt a builder from the usual payment and performance bond, at its own discretion, when the work is on property it has leased to Habitat for Humanity International or a local affiliate for 99 years or more within an area of critical state concern.
AIEven without a bond, a contractor can still place a lien on the Habitat for Humanity leasehold interest itself, but the underlying property owned by the state or the local government cannot be reached by any lien created under chapter 713.