Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1018
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/31/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Boyd) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) and paragraph
    6  (a) of subsection (5) of section 597.004, Florida Statutes, are
    7  amended to read:
    8         597.004 Aquaculture certificate of registration.—
    9         (2) RULES.—
   10         (a) The department, in consultation with the Department of
   11  Environmental Protection, the water management districts,
   12  environmental groups, and representatives from the affected
   13  farming groups, shall adopt rules to:
   14         1. Specify the requirement of best management practices to
   15  be implemented by holders of aquaculture certificates of
   16  registration.
   17         2. Establish procedures for holders of aquaculture
   18  certificates of registration to submit the notice of intent to
   19  comply with best management practices.
   20         3. Establish schedules for implementation of best
   21  management practices, and of interim measures that can be taken
   22  prior to adoption of best management practices. Interim measures
   23  may include the continuation of regulatory requirements in
   24  effect on June 30, 1998.
   25         4. Establish a system to assure the implementation of best
   26  management practices, including recordkeeping requirements.
   27         5. Require any facility that cultures Micropterus salmoides
   28  floridanus to maintain stock acquisition documentation or
   29  records of genetic testing.
   30         (5) SALE OF AQUACULTURE PRODUCTS.—
   31         (a) Aquaculture products, except shellfish, snook, and any
   32  fish of the genus Micropterus, excluding Micropterus salmoides
   33  floridanus, and prohibited and restricted freshwater and marine
   34  species identified by rules of the Fish and Wildlife
   35  Conservation Commission, may be sold by an aquaculture producer
   36  certified pursuant to this section or by a dealer licensed
   37  pursuant to part VII of chapter 379 without restriction so long
   38  as the product origin can be identified.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
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   41  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   42  And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   44  and insert:
   45                        A bill to be entitled                      
   46         An act relating to largemouth bass; amending s.
   47         597.004, F.S.; requiring the Department of Agriculture
   48         and Consumer Services, in consultation with specified
   49         entities, to adopt a rule requiring certain facilities
   50         to maintain stock acquisition documentation or records
   51         of genetic testing related to Florida largemouth bass;
   52         authorizing the sale of Florida largemouth bass as
   53         food fish under certain circumstances; providing an
   54         effective date.