Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 374
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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03/03/2025 .
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The Committee on Agriculture (Truenow) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 43 and 44
4 insert:
5 Section 2. Subsection (28) of section 403.703, Florida
6 Statutes, is amended to read:
7 403.703 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:
8 (28) “Recovered materials” means metal, paper, glass,
9 plastic, textile, or rubber materials that have known recycling
10 potential, can be feasibly recycled, and have been diverted and
11 source separated or have been removed from the solid waste
12 stream for sale, use, or reuse as raw materials, whether or not
13 the materials require subsequent processing or separation from
14 each other. The term includes food waste, but the term does not
15 include materials destined for any use that constitutes
16 disposal. Recovered materials as described in this subsection
17 are not solid waste.
18 Section 3. Paragraphs (g) and (i) of subsection (2) of
19 section 403.706, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20 403.706 Local government solid waste responsibilities.—
21 (2)
22 (g) Local governments are encouraged to separate all
23 plastics, metal, and all grades of paper for recycling before
24 prior to final disposal and are further encouraged to recycle
25 yard trash and other mechanically treated solid and food waste
26 into compost available for agricultural and other acceptable
27 uses.
28 (i) Each county is encouraged to consider plans for
29 composting or mulching organic materials, including food waste,
30 that would otherwise be disposed of in a landfill. The
31 composting or mulching plans are encouraged to address
32 partnership with the private sector.
33 Section 4. Subsection (2) of section 403.7065, Florida
34 Statutes, is amended to read:
35 403.7065 Procurement of products or materials with recycled
36 content.—
37 (2) For the purposes of this section, the term “recycled
38 content” means materials that have been recycled that are
39 contained in the products or materials to be procured,
40 including, but not limited to, paper, aluminum, steel, plastic,
41 glass, and composted material, including food waste. The term
42 does not include the virgin component of internally generated
43 scrap that is commonly used in the industrial or manufacturing
44 processes from which it was generated or waste or scrap
45 purchased from another manufacturer who manufactures the same or
46 a closely related product.
47 Section 5. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
48 made by this act to section 403.703, Florida Statutes, in a
49 reference thereto, paragraph (d) of subsection (4) of section
50 377.814, Florida Statutes, is reenacted to read:
51 377.814 Municipal Solid Waste-to-Energy Program.—
52 (4) INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM.—The department, subject to
53 appropriation, shall provide incentive grants to municipal solid
54 waste-to-energy facilities to assist with the planning and
55 designing for constructing, upgrading, or expanding a municipal
56 solid waste-to-energy facility, including necessary legal or
57 administrative expenses.
58 (d) Funds awarded under the incentive grant program may not
59 be used to promote, establish, or convert a residential
60 collection system that does not provide for the separate
61 collection of residential solid waste from recovered materials
62 as defined in s. 403.703.
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65 And the title is amended as follows:
66 Delete lines 2 - 8
67 and insert:
68 An act relating to organic materials; amending s.
69 163.3162, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
70 “farm product”; providing that the collection,
71 storage, processing, and distribution of a farm
72 product is an activity of a bona fide farm operation
73 which a governmental entity may not prohibit,
74 restrict, regulate, or otherwise limit; amending s.
75 403.703, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
76 “recovered materials”; amending s. 403.706, F.S.;
77 encouraging local governments to recycle and compost
78 food waste; amending s. 403.7065, F.S.; revising the
79 definition of the term “recycled content”; reenacting
80 s. 377.814(4)(d), F.S., relating to the Municipal
81 Solid Waste-to-Energy Program, to incorporate the
82 amendment made to s. 403.703, F.S., in a reference
83 thereto; reenacting s.