Florida Senate - 2016                             CS for SB 1032
       
       
                                                                       
       By the Committee on Rules; and Senator Simmons
       
       595-02270-16                                          20161032c1
    1                   A reviser’s bill to be entitled                 
    2         An act relating to the Florida Statutes; amending ss.
    3         487.064, 487.071, 570.921, 573.1201, 583.181, and
    4         593.107, F.S., to conform to the directive of the
    5         Legislature in section 9 of chapter 2012-116, Laws of
    6         Florida, codified as section 11.242(5)(j), Florida
    7         Statutes, to prepare a reviser’s bill to omit all
    8         statutes and laws, or parts thereof, which grant
    9         duplicative, redundant, or unused rulemaking
   10         authority; providing an effective date.
   11          
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   13  
   14         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 487.064, Florida
   15  Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         487.064 Antisiphon requirements for irrigation systems.—
   17         (3) The department may establish by rule specific
   18  requirements for antisiphon devices and for sites where
   19  pesticide mixing-loading occurs.
   20         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of section
   21  487.071, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   22         487.071 Enforcement, inspection, sampling, and analysis.—
   23         (7)
   24         (b) The department shall establish by rule a fee schedule
   25  for pesticide samples analyzed upon request. The fees shall be
   26  sufficient to cover the costs to the department for taking the
   27  samples and performing the analysis. However, no fee shall
   28  exceed $400 per test.
   29         Section 3. Section 570.921, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   30  read:
   31         570.921 Environmental Stewardship Certification Program.
   32  The department may, by rule, establish the Environmental
   33  Stewardship Certification Program consistent with this section.
   34  A rule adopted under this section must be developed in
   35  consultation with state universities, agricultural
   36  organizations, and other interested parties.
   37         (1) The program must:
   38         (a) Be integrated, to the maximum extent practicable, with
   39  programs that are sponsored by agricultural organizations or
   40  state universities.
   41         (b) Be designed to recognize and promote agricultural
   42  operations or homeowner practices that demonstrate exemplary
   43  resource management that is related to environmental
   44  stewardship.
   45         (c) Include a process to periodically review a
   46  certification to ensure compliance with the program
   47  requirements, including implementation by the certificateholder.
   48         (d) Require periodic continuing education in relevant
   49  environmental stewardship issues in order to maintain
   50  certification.
   51         (2) The department shall provide an agricultural
   52  certification under this program for implementation of one or
   53  more of the following criteria:
   54         (a) A voluntary agreement between an agency and an
   55  agricultural producer for environmental improvement or water
   56  resource protection.
   57         (b) A conservation plan that meets or exceeds the
   58  requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture.
   59         (c) Best management practices adopted by rule pursuant to
   60  s. 403.067(7)(c) or s. 570.93(1)(b).
   61         (3) The Soil and Water Conservation Council created by s.
   62  582.06 may develop and recommend to the department for adoption
   63  additional criteria for receipt of an agricultural certification
   64  which may include, but not be limited to:
   65         (a) Comprehensive management of all on-farm resources.
   66         (b) Promotion of environmental awareness and responsible
   67  resource stewardship in agricultural or urban communities.
   68         (c) Completion of a curriculum of study that is related to
   69  environmental issues and regulation.
   70         (4) If needed, the department and the Institute of Food and
   71  Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida may jointly
   72  develop a curriculum that provides instruction concerning
   73  environmental issues pertinent to agricultural certification and
   74  deliver such curriculum to, and certify its completion by, any
   75  person seeking certification or to maintain certification.
   76         (5) The department may enter into agreements with third
   77  party providers to administer or implement all or part of the
   78  program.
   79         Section 4. Subsection (1) of section 573.1201, Florida
   80  Statutes, is amended to read:
   81         573.1201 Certificates of exemption.—
   82         (1) The department may adopt procedures pursuant to which
   83  certificates of exemption will be issued to producers or
   84  handlers.
   85         Section 5. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
   86  583.181, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   87         583.181 Disposal of dead poultry and hatchery residue;
   88  inspection and quarantine; penalties.—
   89         (3) POWERS AND DUTIES.—In the discharge of its duties under
   90  this section, the department has the power:
   91         (a) To prescribe promulgate rules prescribing satisfactory
   92  facilities and equipment for the handling, destruction, and
   93  disposal of dead birds and hatchery residue so as to prevent the
   94  spread or dissemination of diseases of poultry.
   95         Section 6. Section 593.107, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   96  read:
   97         593.107 Regulation of collection, transportation,
   98  distribution, and movement of cotton.—Each grower of cotton
   99  shall keep and furnish the department such information as it
  100  may, by rule, require regarding the collection, transportation,
  101  distribution, and processing of cotton for the purpose of
  102  determining if the cotton is infested with the boll weevil.
  103  Further, each such grower is required to keep and maintain
  104  sanitary at all times her or his vehicles used in the
  105  collection, transportation, and distribution of cotton under
  106  such rules as may be required by the department. The department
  107  may govern promulgate rules governing the movement of regulated
  108  articles within the state and from another state, or portion
  109  thereof, into an eradication zone when that state is known to be
  110  infested with the boll weevil.
  111         Reviser’s note.—Amends or repeals provisions of the Florida
  112         Statutes pursuant to the directive of the Legislature in s.
  113         9, ch. 2012-116, Laws of Florida, codified as s.
  114         11.242(5)(j), Florida Statutes, to prepare a reviser’s bill
  115         to omit all statutes and laws, or parts thereof, which
  116         grant duplicative, redundant, or unused rulemaking
  117         authority.
  118         Section 7. This act shall take effect on the 60th day after
  119  adjournment sine die of the session of the Legislature in which
  120  enacted.