Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1014
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Regulated Industries (Mayfield) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 33 - 73
    4  and insert:
    5         2. “Main line” means a pipe or conduit that transports
    6  wastewater from, or transports potable water to, lateral lines
    7  serving multiple properties. The term does not include lateral
    8  lines, service connections, customer-owned plumbing or piping
    9  located on private property, or any pipe or conduit serving only
   10  a single property.
   11         3. “Sufficient capacity” means a water or sewer utility
   12  having, as applicable, the infrastructure, water supply, and
   13  managerial and financial ability to reliably meet current and
   14  reasonably anticipated future water demands and treat wastewater
   15  flows while maintaining compliance with applicable state and
   16  federal drinking water and wastewater standards and
   17  requirements.
   18         (b) A municipal utility may not decline to extend service
   19  to property outside of its corporate limits on the sole basis
   20  that the owner refuses to assent or otherwise consent to such
   21  property being annexed by that municipal utility’s controlling
   22  municipality.
   23         (c) Upon application for service by an owner, a municipal
   24  utility must expand its service territory to allow an owner
   25  whose property is located outside of the municipal utility’s
   26  service territory to connect to the municipal utility if:
   27         1. The property is not within the service territory of
   28  another water or wastewater utility, as applicable;
   29         2. The municipal utility has sufficient capacity to serve
   30  the property’s anticipated water or wastewater load, as
   31  applicable; or
   32         3. The property is within one-half mile of a main line of
   33  the municipal utility, measured by the closest property boundary
   34  line from such main line.