FL H1319

Requires the Department of Environmental Protection to incorporate habitat equivalency analysis — a methodology to determine how much restoration is needed to compensate for adverse impacts — into the state's uniform mitigation assessment method for wetlands and surface waters

Mandates that dredging and filling permits require dredging operations and turbidity monitoring to be performed by separate and distinct entities, with the department directed to adopt implementing rules

Places full cost and responsibility for any damage or destruction caused by dredging, filling, or related activities on the permitted entities

Designates coral reefs as critical natural infrastructure and a nature-based solution that helps mitigate climate change-related risks and disaster events, including storms, high wave events, sea level rise, and flooding

Effective date of July 1, 2026