Bill Text: FL S0292 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Private Property Rights
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-03-10 - Died in Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities [S0292 Detail]
Download: Florida-2018-S0292-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2018 SB 292 By Senator Rodriguez 37-00059A-18 2018292__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to private property rights; amending 3 s. 366.02, F.S.; exempting from the definition of 4 “public utility” property owners who own and operate a 5 renewable energy source device and who produce 6 renewable energy from that device and provide and sell 7 such renewable energy to users on that property, under 8 certain circumstances; providing an effective date. 9 10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 11 12 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 366.02, Florida 13 Statutes, is amended to read: 14 366.02 Definitions.—As used in this chapter: 15 (1) “Public utility” means every person, corporation, 16 partnership, association, or other legal entity and their 17 lessees, trustees, or receivers supplying electricity or gas 18 (natural, manufactured, or similar gaseous substance) to or for 19 the public within this state.; butThe term “public utility” 20 does not include either a cooperative now or hereafter organized 21 and existing under the Rural Electric Cooperative Law of the 22 state; a municipality or any agency thereof; a property owner 23 who owns and operates on that property a renewable energy source 24 device as defined in s. 193.624 with a capacity of up to 2.5 25 megawatts and who produces and provides or sells renewable 26 energy from that device to users located on the property; any 27 dependent or independent special natural gas district; any 28 natural gas transmission pipeline company making only sales or 29 transportation delivery of natural gas at wholesale and to 30 direct industrial consumers; any entity selling or arranging for 31 sales of natural gas which neither owns nor operates natural gas 32 transmission or distribution facilities within the state; or a 33 person supplying liquefied petroleum gas, in either liquid or 34 gaseous form, irrespective of the method of distribution or 35 delivery, or owning or operating facilities beyond the outlet of 36 a meter through which natural gas is supplied for compression 37 and delivery into motor vehicle fuel tanks or other 38 transportation containers, unless such person also supplies 39 electricity or manufactured or natural gas. 40 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.