Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1310
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/17/2016           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (Simpson)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 56 and 57
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Subsection (1) of Section 482.1562, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         482.1562 Limited certification for urban landscape
    8  commercial fertilizer application.—
    9         (1) To provide a means of documenting and ensuring
   10  compliance with best management practices for commercial
   11  fertilizer application to urban landscapes, the department shall
   12  establish a limited certification for urban landscape commercial
   13  fertilizer application. In order to keep turf and root structure
   14  healthy enough to prevent erosion and runoff in the summer
   15  growing season, a local government may not prohibit an
   16  individual certified under this section, or a company that
   17  employees individuals certified under this section, from
   18  applying two limited applications of nitrogen-containing
   19  fertilizer to an individual lawn or a contiguous parcel of turf
   20  between May 1 and September 30 of any calendar year. The limited
   21  applications authorized under this subsection may contain no
   22  more than 1 pound of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet and must be
   23  formulated to use at least 50 percent slow-release nitrogen. An
   24  applicator may not apply fertilizers containing nitrogen or
   25  phosphorous to turf when the National Weather Service has issued
   26  any of the following advisories or forecasts for any part of the
   27  county:
   28         (a) An active severe thunderstorm warning or watch, a flood
   29  warning or watch, a tropical storm warning or watch, or a
   30  hurricane warning or watch.
   31         (b) A forecasted rainfall of greater than or equal to 2
   32  inches within the next 24-hour period.
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   35  And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 10
   37  and insert:
   38         are replanted in citrus; amending 482.1562, F.S.;
   39         specifying that persons holding limited certification
   40         for urban landscape commercial fertilizer application
   41         may apply nitrogen-containing fertilizers under
   42         certain conditions and during specified periods;
   43         providing an exception; creating s. 580.0365, F.S.;