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Background: In 2008, the Florida Legislature created Section 403.7032, Florida Statutes. This estab- lished a new statewide recycling goal of 75% to be achieved by the year 2020. Indian River County BCC voted to support legislation that provides appropriate resources and incentives to local governments to achieve statewide recycling goals, with credit afforded for all recycled materials including municipal biomass and other waste -to -energy processes. Legislation: SB 1104 (Perry) and HB 335 (Natural Resources and Public Lands Subcommittee) ex- pands the statutory definitions for "recovered materials" and "recovered materials processing facility" to include post -use polymers converted into crude, fuels or other raw materials, and facilities that use pyrolysis, gasification, other thermal conversion processes. Effective: If signed by the Governor, it will take effect July 1, 2017. si, t 2 ID' O O ITS - Background: In 2015, Florida ranked fourth in the nation with 3,228 deaths from drug overdoses, 9 and the presence of at least one prescription drug in a person's body caused 2,530 of those deaths.10 Statewide, in 2015, heroin caused 733 deaths, fentanyl caused 705, oxycodone caused 565, and hydro- codone caused 236; deaths caused by heroin and fentanyl increased more than 75 percent statewide when compared with 2014. Legislation #1 : 588 (Passidomo) and HB 249 (Rommel) require mandatory reporting of drug over- doses to keep records of the epidemic., One of the primary purposes of the reporting is to discourage substance abuse and overdoses by quickly identifying the type of drug involved, the age of the individ- ual involved, and the areas where drug overdoses pose a potential risk to the public, schools, work- places, and communities. Another purpose of the legislation is to provide a central data point so that data can be shared between the health care community and municipal, county, and state agencies to quickly identify needs and provide short and long term solutions while protecting and respecting the rights of individuals. Legislation #2: SB 150 (Steube) and HB 477 (Boyd) enhance existing penalties and creates new pen- alties for crimes relating to the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. Effective: If signed by the Governor, both pieces of legislation will be effective October 1, 2017. P205