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Introduced Session

An act relating to land use and development regulations; amending s. 125.022, F.S.; prohibiting a county from requiring an applicant to take certain actions as a condition of processing a development permit or development order; amending s. 163.3162, F.S.; revising a statement of legislative purpose; deleting language authorizing the owner of an agricultural enclave to apply for a comprehensive plan amendment; authorizing such owner instead to apply for administrative approval of a development regardless of future land use designations or comprehensive plan conflicts under certain circumstances; deleting a certain presumption of urban sprawl; requiring that an application for administrative approval for certain parcels include certain concepts; requiring that an authorized development be treated as a conforming use; requiring administrative approval of such development within a specified timeframe if it complies with certain requirements; prohibiting a local government from enacting or enforcing certain regulations or laws; providing that the production of ethanol from certain products in a specified manner is not chemical manufacturing or chemical refining; providing retroactive applicability; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 163.3164, F.S.; revising the definition of the terms “agricultural enclave” and “compatibility”; amending s. 163.3167, F.S.; defining the term “land development regulation”; providing retroactive applicability; amending s. 163.3177, F.S.; prohibiting a comprehensive plan from making a certain mandate; prohibiting optional elements of a local comprehensive plan from containing certain policies; requiring the use of certain consistent data, where relevant, unless an applicant can make a certain justification; amending s. 163.31801, F.S.; defining the term “extraordinary circumstance”; amending s. 163.3184, F.S.; revising the expedited state review process for the adoption of comprehensive plan amendments; requiring a supermajority vote for the adoption of certain comprehensive plans and plan amendments; authorizing owners of property subject to a comprehensive plan amendment and persons applying for comprehensive plan amendments to file civil actions for relief in certain circumstances; providing requirements for such actions; authorizing such owners and applicants to use certain dispute resolution procedures; providing applicability; amending s. 163.3206, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “fuel terminal”; providing applicability of a prohibition on amending a comprehensive plan, a land use map, zoning districts, or land development regulations in a certain manner; amending s. 166.033, F.S.; prohibiting a municipality from requiring an applicant to take certain actions as a condition of processing a development permit or development order; amending s. 171.044, F.S.; providing that an exclusive method of voluntary annexation may not affect certain powers granted to a municipality; providing legislative intent; providing retroactive applicability; providing that an exclusive method of voluntary annexation which requires certain county approval is void; amending s. 171.062, F.S.; providing that a certain assumption of land use regulation of land annexed by a municipality is a power of the municipality as contemplated by the State Constitution; providing applicability; providing legislative intent; providing retroactive applicability; amending s. 177.071, F.S.; requiring an approving agency to administer plat submittals and take specified actions within a certain timeframe; authorizing an applicant to request final administrative review of a plat submittal under certain circumstances; requiring a governing body to grant final administrative approval of a plat at its next regularly scheduled meeting; providing an exception; requiring such governing body to grant final administrative approval of a resubmitted plat at its next regularly scheduled meeting; amending s. 720.301, F.S.; revising definitions; amending s. 720.302, F.S.; revising applicability of the Homeowners’ Association Act; amending s. 720.3086, F.S.; revising applicability of provisions requiring a certain financial report; creating part IV of ch. 720, F.S., entitled “Recreational Covenants”; creating s. 720.408, F.S.; defining terms; creating s. 720.409, F.S.; providing legislative findings and intent; providing applicability; providing construction; creating s. 720.41, F.S.; providing requirements for certain recreational covenants recorded on or after a certain date; requiring that a recreational covenant recorded before a certain date be amended or supplemented to comply with specified requirements; limiting the annual increases in amenity fees and amenity expenses in certain circumstances; prohibiting a recreational covenant from requiring an association to collect amenity dues beginning on a specified date; prohibiting the termination of a recreational covenant or right of a private amenity owner to suspend certain rights from affecting an owner or a tenant of a parcel in a certain manner; creating s. 720.411, F.S.; requiring a specified disclosure summary for contracts for the sale of certain parcels beginning on a specified date; requiring certain persons to supply the disclosure summary; requiring that certain contracts or agreements for sale incorporate the disclosure summary and include a specified statement after a specified date; authorizing a prospective purchaser to void a contract in a specified manner under certain circumstances; creating s. 720.412, F.S.; requiring a public amenity owner annually to make a certain financial report public and available for inspection in a certain manner within a certain timeframe; providing requirements for the financial report; providing applicability; providing an effective date.

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Stan McClain (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (1)

Died in Regulated Industries, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 784 (Ch. 2025-164), CS/SB 1080 (Ch. 2025-177) (on 06/16/2025)

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