---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reclaimed Water"
description: "Reclaimed Water; Requiring certain domestic wastewater utilities to submit to the Department of Environmental Protection by a specified date a plan for eliminating nonbeneficial surface water discharge within a specified timeframe; requiring domestic wastewater utilities applying for permits for new or expanded surface water discharges to prepare a specified plan for eliminating nonbeneficial discharges as part of its permit application; providing that potable reuse is an alternative water supply and that projects relating to such reuse are eligible for alternative water supply funding; requiring counties, municipalities, and special districts to authorize graywater technologies under certain circumstances and to provide certain incentives for the implementation of such technologies, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 64"
citation: "Florida SB 64 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-168"
primary_sponsors: ["Albritton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8b59fac-9e2c-49ad-bb30-687563cd1a02"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/64/ByCategory"
source_hash: "d7a6c9f0d4add7d91a0a1f406b0919ea3d3d3d909407945bc4d0e9788677beb9"
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 64 (2021) — Reclaimed Water

Reclaimed Water; Requiring certain domestic wastewater utilities to submit to the Department of Environmental Protection by a specified date a plan for eliminating nonbeneficial surface water discharge within a specified timeframe; requiring domestic wastewater utilities applying for permits for new or expanded surface water discharges to prepare a specified plan for eliminating nonbeneficial discharges as part of its permit application; providing that potable reuse is an alternative water supply and that projects relating to such reuse are eligible for alternative water supply funding; requiring counties, municipalities, and special districts to authorize graywater technologies under certain circumstances and to provide certain incentives for the implementation of such technologies, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-168.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 64 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/64/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 64 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/64/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 64 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/64/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 64 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/64/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- CS/SB 64 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albritton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-14** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 02/01/21, 2:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-02-01** CS by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 4 NAYS 0
- **2021-02-02** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-02-03** Now in Community Affairs
- **2021-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/03/21, 9:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** CS by Environment and Natural Resources read 1st time
- **2021-03-03** Favorable by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** Now in Appropriations
- **2021-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/11/21, 11:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-11** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/18/21
- **2021-03-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-18** CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Immediately certified
- **2021-03-18** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2021-04-09** Amendment 101923 filed
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for CS/HB 263
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Amendment 101923 adopted
- **2021-04-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** CS passed as amended; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** In returning messages
- **2021-04-21** Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (101923)
- **2021-04-21** CS passed as amended; YEAS 32 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
- **2021-06-28** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-29** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-07-06** Chapter No. 2021-168

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8b59fac-9e2c-49ad-bb30-687563cd1a02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).