--- type: "Bill" title: "Environmental Resource Management" description: "Environmental Resource Management; Citing this act as the “Clean Waterways Act”; requiring the Department of Health to provide a specified report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to submit to the Governor and the Legislature, by a specified date, certain recommendations relating to the transfer of the Onsite Sewage Program; directing water management districts to submit consolidated annual reports to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; removing provisions requiring certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal system research projects to be approved by a Department of Health technical review and advisory panel, etc." jurisdiction: "us/states/fl" legislature: "Florida Legislature" session: "2020" identifier: "SB 712" citation: "Florida SB 712 (2020)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["ports and harbors", "vessels", "reclamation", "and use", "relations", "industry", "municipalities", "executive branch"] status: "enacted" chapter_law: "2020-150" primary_sponsors: ["Mayfield"] version_count: 5 action_count: 38 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2019-10-30" last_action: "2020-07-01" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac499682-327d-449a-a9fd-11517b800d3a" source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/712/ByCategory" source_hash: "75bd43df13d2f98050d7b6aa5451f399381c5162946e8117500c6d8dad98a278" 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 SB 712 (2020) — Environmental Resource Management Environmental Resource Management; Citing this act as the “Clean Waterways Act”; requiring the Department of Health to provide a specified report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to submit to the Governor and the Legislature, by a specified date, certain recommendations relating to the transfer of the Onsite Sewage Program; directing water management districts to submit consolidated annual reports to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; removing provisions requiring certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal system research projects to be approved by a Department of Health technical review and advisory panel, etc. **Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-150. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **S 712 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/712/BillText/Filed/HTML) 2. **S 712 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/712/BillText/c1/HTML) 3. **S 712 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/712/BillText/c2/HTML) 4. **S 712 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/712/BillText/e1/HTML) 5. **S 712 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/712/BillText/er/HTML) ## Votes - Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **5–0** (pass) · upper - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–1** (pass) · upper - Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper - Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Mayfield — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2019-10-30** Filed `filing` - **2019-11-18** Referred to Community Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations `referral-committee` - **2019-12-02** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 12/09/19, 4:00 pm, 301 Senate Building - **2019-12-09** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 - **2019-12-11** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2019-12-13** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government - **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction` - **2020-01-14** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time - **2020-01-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/22/20, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building - **2020-01-22** Subcommittee Recommendation: CS/CS by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 - **2020-01-24** Now in Appropriations - **2020-01-31** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/05/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed - **2020-02-03** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/06/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled - **2020-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building - **2020-02-20** CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 1 - **2020-02-24** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) - **2020-02-26** CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time - **2020-02-27** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading - **2020-03-03** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/20 - **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2020-03-05** Amendment(s) adopted (939348) - **2020-03-05** Ordered engrossed - **2020-03-05** Placed on 3rd reading - **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2020-03-06** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2020-03-06** In Messages - **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee` - **2020-03-09** Received - **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20 - **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2020-03-10** Amendment(s) failed (106257, 518865, 716973, 882781) - **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading - **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 118 NAYS 0 `passage` - **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled - **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor - **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature` - **2020-07-01** Chapter No. 2020-150 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); 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Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).