Bill > H7019

Introduced Session

An act relating to statewide flooding and sea level rise resilience; creating s. 380.093, F.S.; providing legislative intent; providing definitions; establishing the Resilient Florida Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection; authorizing the department to provide grants to local governments to fund the costs of community resilience planning, subject to appropriation; providing requirements for certain local government vulnerability assessments; requiring the department to complete a comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability and sea level rise data set and assessment by specified dates; specifying requirements for such data set and assessment; requiring the department to develop an annual Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan and submit the plan to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; specifying requirements for the plan; authorizing local governments, regional resilience entities, water management districts, and flood control districts to annually submit proposed projects to the department for inclusion in the plan; specifying requirements for such projects; specifying expenses that are ineligible for inclusion in the plan; requiring the department to , Engrossed 1 implement a scoring system for assessing projects eligible for inclusion in the plan; limiting the total amount of funding that may be proposed for each year of the plan; requiring the Legislature, upon review and subject to appropriation, to approve funding for projects as specified in the plan; directing the department to initiate rulemaking by a specified date; authorizing the department to provide funding to regional resilience entities for specified purposes, subject to specified appropriation; creating s. 380.0933, F.S.; establishing the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation within the University of South Florida College of Marine Science for a specified purpose; providing duties of the hub; providing for an executive director; requiring the hub to submit an annual report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; amending s. 403.928, F.S.; requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to include specified information relating to inland and coastal flood control in certain assessments; providing an effective date.

Committee Categories

Demi Busatta Cabrera (R)*,  Bryan Ávila (R),  Robin Bartleman (D),  Adam Botana (R),  Kamia Brown (D),  James Buchanan (R),  Kevin Chambliss (D),  Linda Chaney (R),  Nicholas Duran (D),  Juan Fernandez-Barquin (R),  Christine Hunschofsky (D),  Dotie Joseph (D),  Chip LaMarca (R),  Thomas Leek (R),  Ralph Massullo (R),  Fiona McFarland (R),  Daisy Morales (D),  John Snyder (R),  Cyndi Stevenson (R),  Jackeline Toledo (R),  Marie Woodson (D), 

Other Sponsors (2)

Laid on Table; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 1954 (Ch. 2021-28), SB 2512 (Ch. 2021-39), SB 2514 (Ch. 2021-29) (on 04/08/2021)

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