Florida Senate Bill 172 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 5 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-05-05 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Citing this act as the "Safe Waterways Act"; requiring, rather than authorizing, the Department of Health to adopt and enforce certain rules; directing the department to require closure of beach waters and public bathing places under certain circumstances; including public bathing places in an existing preemption of authority to the state pertaining to the issuance of such health advisories and an existing notification requirement; providing that municipalities and counties are responsible for maintaining the health advisory signs around affected beach waters and public bathing places that they own; requiring the department to establish a public statewide interagency database for a specified purpose, etc.

Safe Waterways Act

Sen. Lori Berman [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-05-05	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2023-03-07	Senate	Introduced
2023-01-19	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
2023-01-12	Senate	Filed

H177 (Same As) 2023-05-05 - Died in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
514	023		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/172
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/172/BillText/Filed/HTML