The legislation became effective 1 July 2019, as noted here:
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/82/BillText/er/HTML
I have mixed feelings about the new law. While federal government returned a vital
freedom that should never have been tampered with, a hole has been poked in the wall of
local authority that was created to stand against state or federal intervention.
What federal government gives, can be taken. Now federal government can decide what happens locally with yard gardens. Weakening local law is unlikely to be redressed and might easily lead to other local laws being cast aside.
I'm grateful Florida residents can currently use their yards almost freely, setting aside concern about limitations specific to fertilizers and what government deems invasive species.
I am concerned that poking this hole in local authority may be used to create more holes so that, in the future, local authority can be made unable to fight off CAFOs (as with restrictions put in place by locals in Bayfield/Ashland Wisconsin), delisting endangered species purely for
profit without care for environments, fracking, pipelines, storing nuclear waste on and under
land and
water, and such.
If I misunderstand the writing in this legislation, will someone please clarify. I want to be hopeful :.)
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