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An act relating to construction regulations; creating s. 255.0994, F.S.; defining terms; prohibiting a governmental entity that contracts for a public works project from taking certain actions; providing construction; providing severability; providing applicability; amending s. 553.71, F.S.; defining the term “commercial construction project”; creating s. 553.789, F.S.; requiring the Florida Building Commission to adopt by rule uniform commercial building permit acceptance standards for a specified purpose by a specified date; specifying the information to be included in the acceptance standards; requiring the commission to adopt rules to create additional trade-specific acceptance standards for certain trades; requiring a local enforcement agency to accept a completed application if it provides the information set forth in such acceptance standards adopted by the Florida Building Commission; authorizing the local enforcement agency to require additional documentation or plans; amending s. 553.79, F.S.; requiring that permit fees that are imposed by a local enforcement agency be limited to the actual and reasonable costs incurred in reviewing, processing, and administering the permit; prohibiting such fees from being based on industry standards, market rates, or comparable retail pricing; requiring that such fees be proportional to the work performed in reviewing, processing, and administering such permits; prohibiting a political subdivision from imposing certain requirements for glazing on certain proposed construction or restoration projects; defining the terms “primary facade” and “glazing”; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 553.791, F.S.; requiring a local jurisdiction to include a certain reduction in the permit fee on its schedule of fees posted on its website; prohibiting the local jurisdiction from charging fees for plans review services under certain circumstances; requiring the local jurisdiction to specify the services covered by the administrative fees on its website; requiring the local enforcement agency to reduce the permit fee by specified percentages for an owner or a contractor that retains a private provider for specified purposes; providing that a local enforcement agency forfeits its ability to collect any fees for a commercial construction project if it does not reduce its fees by such specified percentages; requiring that a certain surcharge be calculated based on the reduced permit fee; providing construction; creating s. 553.8411, F.S.; requiring nonresidential structures built in a flood zone after a specified date to have the lowest floor elevated above the required design flood elevation; authorizing the building of such a structure below the required design flood elevation if all structural areas below the required design flood elevation are substantially impermeable to water and capable of resisting certain effects of the regulatory floodplain; amending s. 553.842, F.S.; revising the products requiring statewide approval to include mitigation products; creating s. 553.8992, F.S.; requiring the Florida Building Commission to incorporate into the Florida Building Code certain standards for all new construction commercial or residential pools by a specified date; amending ss. 497.271 and 553.902, F.S.; conforming cross references; providing an effective date.

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Erin Grall (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (1)

CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time (on 02/04/2026)

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