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FloridaHB 7332025HouseWALLET

Brownfields

Sponsored By: Adam Anderson (Republican)

Signed by Governor

AppropriationNatural Resources & Disasters SubcommitteeWays & Means CommitteeState Affairs CommitteeRules

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State registry replaces local contamination map notes

Florida’s environmental department must publish a statewide registry of contaminated brownfield sites with legal use limits or physical safeguards. It must be public by July 1, 2026, listing controls, contaminants, affected soil or water, land-use limits, and county. Local governments must be notified, and local planning and zoning offices must post access information. Owners no longer submit control information for local maps, and local governments no longer add or remove those map notes. The department removes registered sites after issuing a site rehabilitation completion order without legal use controls.

Cleaned property sections can receive approval

Cleanup agencies cannot deny No Further Action status or a completion order solely because contamination remains on a larger site. The brownfield portion must meet cleanup standards, and soil and groundwater contamination spreading from it must be adequately addressed. This applies regardless of when its cleanup agreement began or whether controls remain elsewhere on the larger site. Beginning July 1, 2025, a state or approved local site rehabilitation completion order replaces completion or No Further Action letters as proof of completed cleanup duties. Moving contaminated material offsite for relocation or treatment still requires compliance with federal, state, and local law.

Federally regulated sites gain cleanup access

Beginning July 1, 2025, some sites under federal enforcement, corrective action, or specified hazardous-waste permits can enter Florida’s brownfield program. They need a federal no-objection letter and state concurrence, or compliance with Section V of the November 28, 2005, federal-state agreement, as amended. For the letter route, applicants must reasonably show they will follow Florida’s cleanup law; both letters must accompany the cleanup agreement. The state can issue concurrence after receiving the federal letter and that showing. Sites that later face the specified federal action lose eligibility unless they obtain the required letters.

More access for community cleanup projects

Beginning July 1, 2025, local governments and persons joined with them for business qualify if they caused no contamination on or after that date. Other participants remain barred if they caused or added to contamination on or after July 1, 1997. Qualifying applicants under state enforcement or corrective action can enter cleanup agreements for contaminated, idle or underused sites. Participation must increase the site’s economic productivity, and applicants must comply in good faith with enforcement or cleanup requirements. These projects are exempt from creating 10 new permanent jobs when they provide affordable housing, recreation, conservation, parks, or cultural or historic preservation.

Extra tax credit for finished cleanups

Eligible brownfield cleanup applicants can claim an additional credit worth 25% of eligible cleanup costs, up to $500,000. Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection must approve the annual application and issue a site rehabilitation completion order. Applicants must claim the extra credit within 2 years after receiving that order. Credits can be transferred under existing rules, but cannot provide refunds beyond the tax owed.

Tax credit for brownfield waste removal

Eligible applicants can claim a one-time credit worth 50% of qualifying solid-waste removal costs, capped at $500,000 per brownfield site. Applicants must meet brownfield participation requirements, and removal must be complete before the single application per site. The site must never have operated as a permitted solid-waste disposal area regulated under Florida law. Multiple contributors can share the credit based on their contributions. The law removes the former monetary-compensation condition and related affidavit and documentation requirements.

Later tax-credit decisions for cleanup applicants

For annual applications due January 31, Florida’s environmental department now sends eligibility notices and credit certificates by June 1. This replaces the May 1 deadline. The June 1 deadline does not apply when the department has issued a notice that an application needs corrections. After receiving the applicant’s response to that notice, the department has 120 days to reply, up from 90 days. These timing changes do not change credit amounts.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Adam Anderson

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee

    Affiliation unavailable

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 148 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/2/2025

Senate Floor Vote

Yes: 32 • No: 0

House vote • 4/16/2025

House Floor Vote

Yes: 116 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter No. 2025-116

    6/4/2025

  2. Approved by Governor

    6/3/2025

  3. Signed by Officers and presented to Governor

    6/2/2025

  4. Ordered enrolled

    5/2/2025House

  5. In Messages

    5/2/2025House

  6. CS passed; YEAS 32 NAYS 0 -SJ 1137

    5/2/2025Senate

  7. Read 3rd time -SJ 1137

    5/2/2025Senate

  8. Read 2nd time -SJ 1137

    5/2/2025Senate

  9. Substituted for CS/CS/SB 736 -SJ 1137

    5/2/2025Senate

  10. Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading

    5/2/2025Senate

  11. Withdrawn from Rules -SJ 1137

    5/2/2025Senate

  12. Received

    4/22/2025Senate

  13. Referred to Rules

    4/16/2025Senate

  14. In Messages

    4/16/2025Senate

  15. CS passed; YEAS 116, NAYS 0

    4/16/2025House

  16. Read 3rd time

    4/16/2025House

  17. Added to Third Reading Calendar

    4/16/2025House

  18. Placed on 3rd reading

    4/16/2025House

  19. Read 2nd time

    4/16/2025House

  20. Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)

    4/10/2025House

  21. Added to Second Reading Calendar

    4/8/2025House

  22. Bill released to House Calendar

    4/8/2025House

  23. Reported out of State Affairs Committee

    4/8/2025House

  24. Favorable by State Affairs Committee

    4/8/2025House

  25. Added to State Affairs Committee agenda

    4/4/2025House

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