Florida Senate - 2025 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 11
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 1/AD/2R .
04/23/2025 11:28 AM .
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Senator Jones moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Present subsections (2), (3), and (4) of section
6 180.191, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (3),
7 (4), and (5), respectively, a new subsection (2) is added to
8 that section, and subsection (1) of that section is amended, to
9 read:
10 180.191 Limitation on rates charged consumer outside city
11 limits.—
12 (1) Any municipality within this the state operating a
13 water or sewer utility outside of the boundaries of such
14 municipality shall charge consumers outside the municipal
15 boundaries rates, fees, and charges determined in one of the
16 following manners:
17 (a) It may charge the same rates, fees, and charges as
18 consumers inside the municipal boundaries. However, in addition
19 thereto, the municipality may add a surcharge of not more than
20 25 percent of such rates, fees, and charges to consumers outside
21 the municipal boundaries, except as provided in subsection (2).
22 Fixing of such rates, fees, and charges in this manner does
23 shall not require a public hearing except as may be provided for
24 service to consumers inside the municipality.
25 (b) It may charge rates, fees, and charges that are just
26 and equitable and that which are based on the same factors used
27 in fixing the rates, fees, and charges for consumers inside the
28 municipal boundaries, except as provided in subsection (2). In
29 addition thereto, the municipality may add a surcharge not to
30 exceed 25 percent of such rates, fees, and charges for said
31 services to consumers outside the boundaries. However, the total
32 of all such rates, fees, and charges for the services to
33 consumers outside the boundaries may shall not be more than 50
34 percent in excess of the total amount the municipality charges
35 consumers served within the municipality for corresponding
36 service. No Such rates, fees, and charges may not shall be fixed
37 until after a public hearing at which all of the users of the
38 water or sewer systems; owners, tenants, or occupants of
39 property served or to be served thereby; and all others
40 interested must shall have an opportunity to be heard concerning
41 the proposed rates, fees, and charges. Any change or revision of
42 such rates, fees, or charges may be made in the same manner as
43 such rates, fees, or charges were originally established, but if
44 such change or revision is to be made substantially pro rata as
45 to all classes of service, both inside and outside the
46 municipality, no hearing or notice is shall be required.
47 (2) A municipality within this state which operates a water
48 or sewer utility providing service to customers in another
49 recipient municipality, which also has a facility in that
50 recipient municipality, shall charge consumers in the recipient
51 municipality the same rates, fees, and charges as it does the
52 consumers inside its own municipal boundaries. This subsection
53 applies only to a municipality located within a county as
54 defined in s. 125.011(1). As used in this subsection, the term:
55 (a) “Facility” means a water treatment facility, a
56 wastewater treatment facility, an intake station, a pumping
57 station, a well, and other physical components of a water or
58 wastewater system. The term does not include:
59 1. Pipes, tanks, pumps, or other facilities that transport
60 water from a water source or treatment facility to the consumer;
61 or
62 2. Pipes, conduits, and associated appurtenances that
63 transport wastewater from the point of entry to a wastewater
64 treatment facility.
65 (b) “Wastewater treatment facility” means a facility that
66 accepts and treats domestic wastewater or industrial wastewater.
67 (c) “Water treatment facility” means a facility within a
68 water system which can alter the physical, chemical, or
69 bacteriological quality of water.
70 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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72 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
73 And the title is amended as follows:
74 Delete everything before the enacting clause
75 and insert:
76 A bill to be entitled
77 An act relating to municipal water and sewer utility
78 rates; amending s. 180.191, F.S.; requiring a
79 municipality to charge customers receiving its utility
80 services in another municipality the same rates, fees,
81 and charges as it charges consumers within its
82 municipal boundaries under certain circumstances;
83 providing applicability; defining terms; making
84 technical changes; providing an effective date.