Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1556
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/22/2022           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and
       General Government (Gruters) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 403.9339, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         403.9339 Golf course best management practices
    8  certification.—
    9         (1) To provide a means of documenting and ensuring
   10  compliance with best management practices for fertilizer
   11  application to golf courses, the turfgrass science program at
   12  the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural
   13  Sciences, in coordination with the department, shall administer
   14  a certification for golf course best management practices.
   15         (2) The turfgrass science program, in cooperation with the
   16  department, shall:
   17         (a) Provide training and testing programs in golf course
   18  best management practices and may issue certificates
   19  demonstrating satisfactory completion of the training.
   20         (b) Approve training and testing programs in golf course
   21  best management practices that are equivalent to or more
   22  comprehensive than the programs provided by the turfgrass
   23  science program under paragraph (a). Such programs must be
   24  reviewed and reapproved by the turfgrass science program if
   25  significant changes are made.
   26         (3) To obtain a golf course best management practices
   27  certification, an applicant must submit to the turfgrass science
   28  program a copy of the training certificate issued under
   29  subsection (2).
   30         (4) A golf course best management practices certification
   31  issued under this section expires 4 years after the date of
   32  issuance. Upon expiration of the certification, or after a grace
   33  period of not more than 30 days after the expiration date, a
   34  recertification may be issued.
   35         (5) To obtain a golf course best management practices
   36  recertification, an applicant must submit to the turfgrass
   37  science program proof of having completed 8 classroom hours of
   38  continuing education, of which at least 2 hours must address
   39  fertilizer best management practices.
   40         (6) A person certified under this section is exempt from:
   41         (a) Additional local training.
   42         (b) Local ordinances relating to water and fertilizer use
   43  blackout periods or restrictions, unless a state of emergency is
   44  declared. The certified person must continue to coordinate with
   45  the local government to ensure that he or she adheres to the
   46  comprehensive best management practices for that specific
   47  community.
   48         (7) This section does not exempt a person certified under
   49  this section from complying with the rules and requirements for
   50  basin management action plans set forth in s. 403.067(7) if the
   51  golf course is located in an area within a basin management
   52  action plan.
   53         (8)(a) The turfgrass science program may provide the
   54  certification status of persons certified under this section to
   55  local and state governmental entities.
   56         (b) The turfgrass science program is encouraged to create a
   57  registry of persons certified under this section on its website.
   58         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.
   59  
   60  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   61  And the title is amended as follows:
   62         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   63  and insert:
   64                        A bill to be entitled                      
   65         An act relating to golf course best management
   66         practices certification; creating s. 403.9339, F.S.;
   67         requiring the turfgrass science program at the
   68         University of Florida Institute of Food and
   69         Agricultural Sciences, in coordination and cooperation
   70         with the Department of Environmental Protection, to
   71         administer a certification for golf course best
   72         management practices and provide and approve
   73         certification training and testing programs; providing
   74         certification and recertification requirements;
   75         providing that such certification exempts persons from
   76         certain local training and local ordinance
   77         regulations; providing construction; authorizing the
   78         turfgrass science program to share certification
   79         information with local and state governmental
   80         entities; encouraging the turfgrass science program to
   81         create an online certification registry; providing an
   82         effective date.