Title: Local Government Recycling Programs

Summary: Creates Florida Recycling Working Group; provides for membership, duties, & expiration; requires report to Legislature by specified date; provides exemption from recycling requirements for fiscally constrained counties & expiration of such exemption.

Full Text:
An act relating to local government recycling programs; amending s. 403.706, F.S.; creating the Florida Recycling Working Group; providing the duties and membership of the working group; requiring the working group to submit a report to the Legislature by a specified date; providing an expiration date for the working group; providing an exemption for fiscally constrained counties from recycling requirements;providing an expiration date for the exemption; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsections (23) and (24) are added to s. 403.706, Florida Statutes, to read: 403.706 Local gove rnment solid waste responsibilities.-(23)(a) The Florida Recycling Working Group is created within the department and shall be composed of eleven members, with each of the following eleven organizations appointing one representative member from within their respective organizations: 1. The department. 2. The University of Florida's Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment. HB 1031 2020 3. The Hinkley Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. 4. The Florida League of Cities. 5. The Florida Association of Counties. 6. The Florida Recycling Partnership. 7. Keep Florida Beautiful. 8. The Florida Beverage Association. 9. Southern Waste Information eXchange, Inc. 10. The Florida Chapter of the National Waste and Recycling Association. 11. Recycle Florida Today, Inc. (b) The working group shall meet at least three times and elect, by quorum, a chair and a vice chair. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the members. The chair of the working group shall preside at all meetings and shall call a meeting as often as necessary to carry out this subsection. The department shall keep a complete record of the proceedings of each meeting, including the names of the members present at each meeting and the actions taken. The reco rds are public records pursuant to chapter 119. (c) The working group shall compile a report recommending programs and statutory changes necessary for achieving future recycling goals based on current progress toward achieving the goals set in subsection (2). The working group shall submit the report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the HB 1031 2020 House of Representatives by July 1, 2021. (d) This subsection expires July 1, 2021. (24) A fiscally constrained county, as defined in s. 218.67(1), is exempt from the goals and requirements set forth in this section. This subsection expires July 1, 2035. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.