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Bill	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.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 712	Florida SB 712 (2020)	bill	ports and harbors vessels reclamation and use relations industry municipalities executive branch	enacted	2020-150	Mayfield	5	38	5	2019-10-30	2020-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/ac499682-327d-449a-a9fd-11517b800d3a	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/712/ByCategory	75bd43df13d2f98050d7b6aa5451f399381c5162946e8117500c6d8dad98a278	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. S 712 c1 (committee substitute) — source
3. S 712 c2 (committee substitute) — source
4. S 712 e1 (engrossed) — source
5. S 712 er (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/ac499682-327d-449a-a9fd-11517b800d3a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).