Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1014
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/03/2026           .                                
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       The Committee on Regulated Industries (Mayfield) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
    2  
    3         Delete lines 33 - 73
    4  and insert:
    5         2. “Main line” means a pipe or conduit that transports
    6  wastewater from, or transports potable water to, lateral lines
    7  serving multiple properties. The term does not include lateral
    8  lines, service connections, customer-owned plumbing or piping
    9  located on private property, or any pipe or conduit serving only
   10  a single property.
   11         3. “Municipal utility” means a water or sewer utility
   12  constituted on the basis of subsection (1) or subsection (2).
   13         4. “Owner” means a property owner or association of
   14  property owners.
   15         5. “Property” means lots or lands, or, in the case of an
   16  association of property owners, the contiguous group of lots or
   17  lands under the association of property owners.
   18         6. “Sufficient capacity” means a water or sewer utility
   19  having, as applicable, the infrastructure, water supply, and
   20  managerial and financial ability to reliably meet current and
   21  reasonably anticipated future water demands and treat wastewater
   22  flows while maintaining compliance with applicable state and
   23  federal drinking water and wastewater standards and
   24  requirements.
   25         (b) A municipal utility may not decline to extend service
   26  to property outside of its corporate limits on the sole basis
   27  that the owner refuses to assent or otherwise consent to such
   28  property being annexed by that municipal utility’s controlling
   29  municipality.
   30         (c) Upon application for service by an owner, a municipal
   31  utility must expand its service territory to allow an owner
   32  whose property is located outside of the municipal utility’s
   33  service territory to connect to the municipal utility if:
   34         1. The property is not within the service territory of
   35  another water or wastewater utility, as applicable;
   36         2. The municipal utility has sufficient capacity to serve
   37  the property’s anticipated water or wastewater load, as
   38  applicable; or
   39         3. The property is within one-half mile of a main line of
   40  the municipal utility, measured by the closest property boundary
   41  line from such main line.