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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 — **1180** (pass) · lower
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **50** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **201** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **90** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **390** (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); origin `ocd-bill/ac499682-327d-449a-a9fd-11517b800d3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).