Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 832
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/12/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Burgess) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 27 - 43
    4  and insert:
    5  natural geological substance of a former phosphate mine, as
    6  defined in s. 378.213, for which:
    7         1. A notice has been recorded in accordance with s.
    8  378.213(2); and
    9         2. The Department of Health has conducted a survey under s.
   10  404.0561(1).
   11         Section 2. Section 378.213, Florida Statutes, is created to
   12  read:
   13         378.213 Notice of former phosphate mine site.—
   14         (1) The Legislature finds that phosphate mining is an
   15  essential agricultural activity that is necessary for the food
   16  security of the nation and this state and that, further,
   17  formerly mined lands are a valuable resource. The highest and
   18  best use of formerly mined lands is in the state’s interests.
   19         (2) A landowner may record a notice in the official records
   20  of the county in which the land is located which identifies the
   21  landowner’s property as a former phosphate mine. The recorded
   22  notice must be in substantially the following form:
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   24                               NOTICE                              
   25         This property is a former phosphate mine as defined in
   26         s. 378.213(3), Florida Statutes.
   27  
   28  Such recording serves as notice that the land is a former
   29  phosphate mine.
   30         (3) As used in this section, the term “former phosphate
   31  mine” means an area of land upon which phosphate mining has been
   32  conducted and which may have been subject to a radiation survey
   33  in accordance with s. 404.0561 and state reclamation
   34  requirements of ss. 378.201-378.212, but does not include a
   35  phosphogypsum stack as defined in s. 403.4154(1)(d).
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   37  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   38  And the title is amended as follows:
   39         Delete line 7
   40  and insert:
   41         former phosphate mines; authorizing landowners to
   42         record certain notice; providing requirements for such
   43         notice; defining the term “former phosphate mine”;
   44         creating s. 404.0561, F.S.;