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FL H0585
Bill
Status
Failed
6/16/2025
Primary Sponsor
Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
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AI Summary
- Creates a new legal defense for former phosphate mine sites under s. 376.308, shielding them from liability when the condition causing the claim is a naturally occurring geological substance, provided a notice has been recorded and the Department of Health has conducted a radiation survey
- Declares phosphate mining an essential agricultural activity necessary for national and state food security, and finds that the highest and best use of formerly mined lands is in the state's interests
- Allows landowners to record a notice in county official records identifying their property as a former phosphate mine, with "former phosphate mine" defined as land where phosphate mining occurred that may have been subject to reclamation requirements, excluding phosphogypsum stacks
- Requires the Department of Health, upon petition by a current landowner, to conduct a gamma radiation survey of former phosphate land parcels within 120 days, with measurements taken at a density of at least one per acre; preliminary results must be provided within 30 days, and the petitioner may request one additional survey within 60 days if the initial survey is believed to be flawed
- Requires plaintiffs in civil actions related to phosphate mining pollution or hazardous substance discharge to submit a radiation survey of the property with their complaint, prepared by a certified health physicist or radiation protection technologist and verified under penalty of perjury
- Effective date is July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Former Phosphate Mining Lands
Last Action
Died in State Affairs Committee
6/16/2025
Committee Referrals
State Affairs4/3/2025
Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee3/7/2025
Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee2/19/2025
Full Bill Text
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