HB 701 Florida House · 2026 Regular Session

Water Management Districts

Summary
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.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2025
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Governor
Introduced Dec 9, 2025 Last action Mar 13, 2026
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Dec 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
Now in Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
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Dec 16, 2025
Committee
Referred to State Affairs Committee
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Dec 16, 2025
Committee
Referred to Ways & Means Committee
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Dec 16, 2025
Committee
Referred to Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
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Bill Conerly
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