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type: "Bill"
title: "General Permits for Distributed Wastewater Treatment Systems"
description: "General Permits for Distributed Wastewater Treatment Systems; Authorizing the Secretary of Environmental Protection to grant a general permit for the replacement of an existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal system with a distributed wastewater treatment system under certain circumstances; providing for the installation of distributed wastewater treatment units to proceed without any further action by the Department of Environmental Protection if a permittee submits a notification to the department at least a specified number of days before installation, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 796"
citation: "Florida SB 796 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-165"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a406f5fb-4f30-4d57-b2b2-129fa32daf29"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/796/ByCategory"
source_hash: "662d3300d92efa7bcb6940da46e91a6fcf5b6a9543506187ac15030c56f56428"
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 796 (2025) — General Permits for Distributed Wastewater Treatment Systems
General Permits for Distributed Wastewater Treatment Systems; Authorizing the Secretary of Environmental Protection to grant a general permit for the replacement of an existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal system with a distributed wastewater treatment system under certain circumstances; providing for the installation of distributed wastewater treatment units to proceed without any further action by the Department of Environmental Protection if a permittee submits a notification to the department at least a specified number of days before installation, etc.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-165.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S 796 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/796/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 796 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/796/BillText/er/HTML)
## Votes
- Favorable — **190** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **1140** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **360** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **90** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **120** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Bradley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-18** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-28** Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 03/11/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2025-03-11** Favorable by Environment and Natural Resources; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Now in Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
- **2025-03-21** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 03/26/25, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-03-26** Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 12 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Now in Fiscal Policy
- **2025-04-03** On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/08/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/15/25
- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2025-04-15** In Messages
- **2025-04-28** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2025-04-28** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/29/2025)
- **2025-04-28** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-04-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-29** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-18** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-23** Chapter No. 2025-165
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a406f5fb-4f30-4d57-b2b2-129fa32daf29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).