Bill > H0657

Introduced Session

An act relating to community associations; creating s. 712.13, F.S.; providing legislative findings and intent; providing definitions; providing that the recorded governing documents of a dissolved homeowners' association are deemed terminated and unenforceable; requiring the clerk of the circuit court to indicate in the county records that a dissolved association's governing documents are terminated and inactive; requiring certain exclusive easements to revert to the servient estate upon dissolution of a homeowners' association under certain circumstances; providing for the extinguishment of such easement; prohibiting an easement held by a dissolved association from becoming a public right-of- way, trail, or access route unless the easement is separately recorded for public use; providing construction; providing retroactive applicability; amending s. 718.103, F.S.; defining the term "habitable"; revising the definition of the term "video conference"; amending s. 718.104, F.S.; requiring condominium associations to include a specified statement in the governing documents or to hold a meeting by a date certain to vote to amend the governing documents to include such statement; hb657 -05-e1 CS/CS/requiring a vote held at such meeting to be approved by a certain amount of the voting interests; amending s. 718.111, F.S.; requiring a condominium association to provide copies of certain records or otherwise make them available for inspection and copying within a specified timeframe if the association receives a subpoena or written request from a law enforcement agency or prosecuting agency; providing criminal penalties; amending s. 718.112, F.S.; requiring a developer to have a turnover inspection report completed for all buildings on the condominium property before turning control over to unit owners; amending s. 718.1255, F.S.; removing presuit mediation requirements; amending s. 718.128, F.S.; revising the manner in which certain associations must receive electronically transmitted ballots; revising the methods by which unit owners may electronically transmit ballots; amending s. 719.103, F.S.; defining the term "habitable"; amending s. 719.106, F.S.; requiring a developer to have a turnover inspection report completed for all buildings on the condominium property before turning control over to unit owners; amending s. 720.301, F.S.; defining the term "financial statements"; amending s. 720.302, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; hb657 -05-e1 CS/CS/amending s. 720.303, F.S.; requiring homeowners' associations to include a specified statement in the governing documents or to hold a meeting by a date certain to vote to amend the governing documents to include such statement; requiring a vote held at such meeting to be approved by a certain amount of the voting interests; removing the authority of an association to take certain actions relating to the roof of a building; requiring an association to provide copies of or otherwise make available certain records for inspection and copying within a specified timeframe if the association receives a written request from a prosecuting agency; providing criminal penalties; providing that directors, officers, and committee members of a homeowners' association owe a duty of loyalty to such association and its members; requiring a director, an officer, or a committee member who has a conflict of interest to disclose to the board such conflict in writing; prohibiting such director, officer, or member from participating in any discussion or vote on such matter; authorizing an association to void a transaction involving a conflict of interest; providing an exception; providing a rebuttable presumption; providing construction; amending s. 720.3035, F.S.; prohibiting an association hb657 -05-e1 CS/CS/or specified committees of an association from enforcing or adopting a covenant, rule, or guideline that requires a specific type of material for building or rebuilding a roof under certain circumstances; amending s. 720.306, F.S.; conforming a cross- reference; amending s. 720.3075, F.S.; prohibiting an association's documents from precluding a property owner from using any type of building material to build or rebuild a roof under certain circumstances; amending s. 720.311, F.S.; removing presuit mediation requirements; requiring that specified arbitrators conduct arbitration proceedings; creating s. 720.319, F.S.; providing a short title; providing legislative findings; authorizing a homeowners' association to be terminated; providing requirements for the termination of a homeowners' association; providing conditions for a plan of termination; requiring an approved plan of termination be submitted to a community association court program and recorded in the public records of each county in which the association is located; providing duties and responsibilities of a termination trustee; authorizing a member to file a petition with a community association court program under certain circumstances; authorizing a community association court program to take certain actions; providing hb657 -05-e1 CS/CS/responsibilities of the board after approval of a plan of termination; providing for the distribution of assets and paying of lawful debts after an association is terminated; specifying unlawful actions by an association or its officers or directors; providing penalties; creating s. 720.32, F.S.; providing legislative intent; authorizing circuit courts to create and administer a community association court program; providing duties of the chief judge; providing the jurisdiction of the community association court program; authorizing the community association court program to take certain actions; requiring the chief judge of certain judicial circuits to submit to the Legislature a specified report annually by a specified date; providing duties of the Office of the State Courts Administrator; requiring that certain costs associated with the community association court program be funded through specific appropriations in the General Appropriations Act; requiring certain funds that remain unencumbered or undisbursed by specified dates to revert to the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund; providing applicability; amending s. 26.031, F.S.; increasing the number of circuit judges in certain judicial circuits; hb657 -05-e1 CS/CS/specifying that the additional circuit court judges are for the community association court program; amending s. 34.01, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; amending ss. 336.125, 558.002, 617.0601, 617.0701, 617.0721, 617.0725, 617.0808, 617.1606, 718.116, 718.503, 719.503, and 720.3085, F.S.; conforming cross-references; reenacting s. 617.0825(9), F.S., relating to board committees and advisory committees, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 720.3035, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date.

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Juan Porras (R)*,  Jose Alvarez (D),  Webster Barnaby (R),  William Conerly (R),  Kimberly Daniels (D),  Tae Edmonds (D),  Peggy Gossett-Seidman (R),  Chad Johnson (R),  Jim Mooney (R),  Michelle Salzman (R),  Paula Stark (R),  Susan L. Valdés (R), 

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Died in Rules (on 03/13/2026)

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