Current Campaigns

As a First Step, we recommend that you CALL (and/or email) our local Brevard legislators and tell them your positions on these bills. To go further, you can contact the members of the committees listed for each bill.

SUPPORT SB 1538/HB 423(Stewart/Cross): Implementation of the Recommendations of the Blue-Green Algae Task Force

Requiring owners of certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to have the systems periodically inspected, beginning on a specified date; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to administer the inspection program; requiring new or revised basin management action plans to include a list that identifies and prioritizes certain spatially focused projects, etc.

Committee Contacts:

Senate: Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy

House: Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee; Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
Infrastructure Strategies Committee

SUPPORT SB 1632/HB 1379 (Brodeur, Steel): Environmental Protection: Prohibits new On-Site Septic systems in IRL watershed.

Revising the required components of a local government comprehensive plan capital improvements element and general sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage, potable water, and natural groundwater aquifer recharge element; revising the real property purchase agreements that must be submitted to and approved by the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund; providing the components of the Indian River Lagoon Protection Program; prohibiting new onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems within basin management action plans in effect for Outstanding Florida Springs under certain circumstances, etc.

Committee Contacts: 

• Senate: Environment and Natural Resources, Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, Fiscal Policy
• House: Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
  Infrastructure Strategies Committee; Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee

SUPPORT HB 1425 (Cross) Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal System Inspections

Requires owners of certain onsite sewage treatment & disposal systems to have periodic inspections & pay specified costs; directs DEP to administer inspection program; provides for implementation schedule, qualified contractors, exemptions, assessment & inspection procedures, fees, notices, disciplinary actions, & penalties; prohibits partial inspection & omission of inspection portions.

Committee Contacts:

• Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
• Agriculture & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee
• Infrastructure Strategies Committee

SUPPORT SB 172/HB 177 (Berman/Gossett-Seidman): Safe Waterways Act to Protect swimmers from polluted waters.

SB 172 (Berman) and HB 177 (Gossett-Seidman) would require the Department of Health (DOH) to adopt and enforce rules to protect the health and safety of people swimming in public waters. The bills would require owners of public bathing places to notify the local county health department within 24-hours after a water quality test result fails to meet health standards, and close the bathing place if the DOH determines closure necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. The bills also requires DOH to create and display health advisory signage for public bathing places to notify the public against swimming in waters contaminated with fecal bacteria. The DOH would establish a public statewide interagency database to report fecal indicator bacteria data for public bathing places.

Committee Contacts: 

• Senate: Health Policy, Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, Fiscal Policy 
• House: Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee, Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, Health & Human Services Committee

SUPPORT SB 880/HB 1405 (Brodeur): Biosolids: Restricts Spreading biosolids within IRL subwatershed.