---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental Regulation"
description: "Environmental Regulation; Specifies requirements for contracts between residential recycling collectors or recovered materials processing facilities & counties or municipalities for collecting, transporting, & processing residential recycling material & contaminated recyclable material; prohibits local governments from requiring further verification from DEP for certain projects; revises types of dock & pier replacements & repairs that are exempt from such verification & certain permitting requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 73"
citation: "Florida HB 73 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-41"
primary_sponsors: ["Overdorf"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-08-20"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5144251-9ff8-4208-affa-5c352e570a3a"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/73/ByCategory"
source_hash: "942a6057aacf5b6bbd219c5071066f622ac16d12cada802e3e64ba7aca2fbb8d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida HB 73 (2020) — Environmental Regulation

Environmental Regulation; Specifies requirements for contracts between residential recycling collectors or recovered materials processing facilities & counties or municipalities for collecting, transporting, & processing residential recycling material & contaminated recyclable material; prohibits local governments from requiring further verification from DEP for certain projects; revises types of dock & pier replacements & repairs that are exempt from such verification & certain permitting requirements.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-41.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **H 73 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/73/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 73 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/73/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 73 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/73/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (State Affairs Committee) — **23–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Overdorf — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-08-20** Filed `filing`
- **2019-09-23** Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee; Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee; State Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-09** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee, 10/16/19, 12:30 pm, 12 HOB
- **2019-10-16** Favorable by Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-10-16** Now in Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2019-12-04** On Committee agenda-- Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee, 12/11/19, 9:00 am, Morris Hall
- **2019-12-11** Favorable by Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-12-11** Now in State Affairs Committee
- **2020-01-14** On Committee agenda-- State Affairs Committee, 01/16/20, 2:30 pm, Morris Hall
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** CS by- State Affairs Committee; YEAS 23 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-16** Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
- **2020-01-16** Placed on Calendar
- **2020-01-16** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 01/22/20
- **2020-01-16** CS by State Affairs Committee read 1st time
- **2020-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-22** CS passed; YEAS 119 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-01-29** In Messages
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Received
- **2020-02-19** Withdrawn from Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules `withdrawal`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-02-19** Substituted for CS/SB 326
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-03** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-18** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-19** Chapter No. 2020-41

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5144251-9ff8-4208-affa-5c352e570a3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).