2025 Regular SessionFlorida Legislature

S1704: Utility Services

Legislative Summary

Requiring certain public meetings as a condition precedent to the effectiveness of a new or an extended agreement under which a municipality will provide specified utility services in other municipalities or unincorporated areas; limiting the portion of certain utility revenues that a municipality may use to fund or finance general government functions; revising provisions relating to permissible rates, fees, and charges imposed by municipal water and sewer utilities on customers located outside the municipal boundaries; prohibiting boards, agencies, commissions, and authorities of any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision from restricting or prohibiting certain appliances and fuel sources used to provide energy to consumers, etc.

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Bill History

2/28/2025
Filed
Senate
3/7/2025
Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
Senate
3/10/2025
Introduced
Senate
5/3/2025
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
Senate

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(2/28/2025)
Chamber
Senate

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text2/28/202519.2 KB