Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1002
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/08/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Truenow) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Delete lines 42 - 67
    4  and insert:
    5         (2)(a) Except to the extent necessary to enforce the
    6  Florida Building Code adopted pursuant to s. 553.73 or the
    7  Florida Fire Prevention Code adopted pursuant to s. 633.202, a
    8  municipality; a, county; a, special district; a board, an
    9  agency, a commission, or an authority of a county, municipal
   10  corporation, or, community development district created pursuant
   11  to chapter 190;, or other political subdivision of the state may
   12  not enact or enforce a resolution, an ordinance, a rule, a code,
   13  or a policy or take any action that restricts or prohibits or
   14  has the effect of restricting or prohibiting the use of an
   15  appliance, including a stove or grill, which uses the types or
   16  fuel sources of energy production which may be used, delivered,
   17  converted, or supplied by the entities listed in subsection (1).
   18  As used in this subsection, the term “appliance” means a device
   19  or apparatus manufactured and designed to use energy and for
   20  which the Florida Building Code or the Florida Fire Prevention
   21  Code provides specific requirements.
   22         (b) The Florida Building Commission or State Fire Marshal
   23  may not adopt into the Florida Building Code or the Florida Fire
   24  Prevention Code any provision that prohibits or requires, or has
   25  the effect of prohibiting or requiring, the installation of
   26  multiple types or fuel sources of energy production which may be
   27  used, delivered, converted, or supplied by the entities listed
   28  in subsection (1) for powering appliances. As used in this
   29  paragraph, the term “installation” includes the materials,
   30  products, appliances, and methods of construction associated
   31  with such installation. Emergency power systems and standby
   32  power systems required by this section are exempt.
   33         (5) Any charter, resolution, ordinance, rule, code, policy,
   34  or action of any municipality, county, special district,
   35  community development district created pursuant to chapter 190,
   36  or political subdivision, or of any board, agency, commission,
   37  or authority of such governmental entity, which charter,
   38  resolution, ordinance, rule, code, policy, or action that is
   39  preempted by this act and which that existed before or on July
   40  1, 2021, is void.
   41         (6) For purposes of this section, the term “agency” does
   42  not apply to a separate legal entity that is created under s.
   43  163.01, that does not provide utility services to consumers, and
   44  whose membership consists only of electric utilities.
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   46  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   47  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   48         Delete line 18
   49  and insert:
   50  366.032, Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (6) is
   51  added to that section, to read:
   52  
   53  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   54  And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete lines 11 - 12
   56  and insert:
   57         prohibiting the Florida Building Commission or the
   58         State Fire Marshal from adopting into the Florida
   59         Building Code or Florida Fire Prevention Code any
   60         provision that prohibits or requires the installation
   61         of multiple types or fuel sources of energy production
   62         which may be used for certain purposes; defining the
   63         term “installation”; providing an exemption; voiding
   64         existing specified documents and policies from
   65         governmental entities that are preempted by the act;
   66         providing applicability; defining the term “agency”;