Golf Course Best Management Practices Certification

Summary

The bill moves the state’s golf‑course best management practices (BMP) certification program from the Department of Environmental Protection to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. It tasks the University of Florida’s turfgrass science program, in coordination with the agriculture department, with providing training, testing and issuing certifications that expire after four years and require continuing‑education for renewal. Certified operators would be exempt from certain local training and fertilizer‑use restrictions, though basin‑management requirements would still apply.

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