While there isn’t a companion bill in the Senate yet, the House version has the backing of Speaker Richard Corcoran. The Land O’Lakes Republican told an audience Thursday at the Sarasota Yacht Club local governments cannot be allowed to “thwart the free market.”

“Well, in Pinellas we can’t have our toilets flushed three times a day. In Pasco, we’ve got to take our fertilizer to the back and store it,” he told members of the Argus Foundation. “There’s just all these regulations on the books. I think that belongs to the province of the state.”