Florida legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Florida H1523: Utility Services
Status: Failed, June 16, 2025
Requires certain public meetings as condition precedent to effectiveness of new or extended agreement under which municipality will provide specified utility services in other municipalities or unincorporated areas; limits portion of certain utility revenues that municipality may use to fund or finance general government functions; requires excess revenues to be reinvested into municipal utility or returned to customers; revises provisions relating to permissible rates, fees, & charges imposed by municipal water & sewer utilities on customers located outside municipal boundaries; requires municipalities that provide specified utility services to report certain information by specified date, & annually thereafter, to PSC; requires PSC to compile such information & submit report by specified date, & annually thereafter, to Governor & Legislature; prohibits boards, agencies, commissions, & authorities of any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision from restricting or prohibiting fuel sources & appliances used to provide energy to consumers.
Sponsors
- Commerce Committee · primary sponsor
- Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee · primary sponsor
- Busatta, Demi (R, HD-114) · primary sponsor
- Webster Barnaby (R, HD-027)
Votes
- House: Third Reading RCS#205 (April 24, 2025): 80 yea, 31 nay, passed
- House Commerce Committee (April 15, 2025): 21 yea, 2 nay, passed
- House Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee (March 19, 2025): 12 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Economic Infrastructure Subcommittee (March 12, 2025): 14 yea, 4 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is H1523?
- H1523 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Utility Services.
- What does H1523 do?