---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regulation of Water Resources"
description: "Regulation of Water Resources; Revising the qualification requirements a person must meet in order to take the water well contractor license examination; authorizing certain authorities who have been delegated enforcement powers by water management districts to apply disciplinary guidelines adopted by the districts; prohibiting a person or business entity from advertising water well drilling or construction services in specified circumstances; providing that the Department of Environmental Protection’s variance review and advisory committee is not responsible for reviewing water well permitting, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 1136"
citation: "Florida SB 1136 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2024-143"
primary_sponsors: ["Community Affairs", "Rules", "Trumbull"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-02"
last_action: "2024-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c8d107a-5a31-42a3-8083-ababab311b3f"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1136/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f52b6a8cdfc1cbcea1e7d99f92f1270a183a5bcbdae41af08eb83058246de70d"
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 1136 (2024) — Regulation of Water Resources

Regulation of Water Resources; Revising the qualification requirements a person must meet in order to take the water well contractor license examination; authorizing certain authorities who have been delegated enforcement powers by water management districts to apply disciplinary guidelines adopted by the districts; prohibiting a person or business entity from advertising water well drilling or construction services in specified circumstances; providing that the Department of Environmental Protection’s variance review and advisory committee is not responsible for reviewing water well permitting, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2024-143.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 1136 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1136/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1136 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1136/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1136 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1136/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1136 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1136/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Community Affairs — primary (person)
- Rules — primary (person)
- Trumbull — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-02** Filed `filing`
- **2024-01-08** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-12** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 01/17/24, 8:30 am, 301 Senate Building
- **2024-01-17** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-17** Now in Community Affairs
- **2024-01-24** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 01/29/24, 1:30 pm, 401 Senate Building
- **2024-01-29** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
- **2024-01-31** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-01-31** Now in Rules
- **2024-02-01** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2024-02-05** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/08/24, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2024-02-08** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 20 NAYS 0
- **2024-02-09** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2024-02-09** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2024-02-13** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2024-02-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/21/24
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Immediately certified
- **2024-02-21** In Messages
- **2024-03-01** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2024-03-01** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (3/4/2024)
- **2024-03-01** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2) `reading-1`
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-04-22** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-07** Chapter No. 2024-143

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c8d107a-5a31-42a3-8083-ababab311b3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).