HB 701: Water Management Districts
GENERAL BILL by Conerly
Water Management Districts; Requires Commission on Ethics to investigate lobbyist or principal who has made prohibited expenditure & to provide Governor with report of its findings & recommendations regarding such investigation; prohibits certain persons from making or accepting expenditures; requires South Florida Water Management District, in cooperation with DEP, to provide detailed report that includes total estimated remaining cost of implementation of Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan & status of applicable performance indicators for all project components; requires South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force to identify certain sources of funding; authorizes water management districts to levy certain ad valorem taxes on specified property for certain purposes; requires district governing board levying ad valorem taxes for certain projects to adopt resolution approved by majority vote of voting electors in district or basin; requires that water management district's tentative budget for its proposed operations & funding requirements include district's capital improvement plan for current year & next fiscal year; requires that certain projects submitted by water management districts to department for Statewide Flooding & Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan be ranked on separate list; revises list of information that must be submitted by department for each project.
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Bill History
Date Chamber Action 12/9/2025 House • Filed
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HB 701, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 12/9/2025 at 1:18 PM
Bill Text: PDF Analyses: None Related Bills (2)
Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location Track Bills H 593 Governmental Agencies and Personnel Andrade Compare Last Action: 12/12/2025 H Now in Government Operations Subcommittee 
S 802 Public Officers and Employees Mayfield Compare Last Action: 12/9/2025 S Filed
Citations - Statutes (11)
Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help 112.3261 Lobbying before water management districts; registration and reporting. Page 5 (pdf) 373.0693 Basins; basin boards. Page 6 (pdf) 373.0697 Basin taxes. Page 29 (pdf) 373.079 Members of governing board; oath of office; staff. Page 6 (pdf) 373.470 Everglades restoration. Page 7 (pdf) 373.501 Appropriation of funds to water management districts. Page 11 (pdf) 373.503 Manner of taxation. Page 11 (pdf) 373.535 Preliminary district budgets. Page 13 (pdf) 373.536 District budget and hearing thereon. Page 18 (pdf) 373.6075 Purchases from contracts of other entities. Page 22 (pdf) 380.093 Resilient Florida Grant Program; comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability and sea level rise data set and assessment; Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan; regional resilience entities. Page 24 (pdf)