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Introduced Session

An act relating to affordable housing; amending ss. 125.01055 and 166.04151, F.S.; requiring counties and municipalities, respectively, to authorize multifamily and mixed-use residential uses as allowable uses for specified property; providing requirements for certain proposed developments; specifying that certain proposed developments shall not exclude an assemblage of certain parcels; providing for the expiration of certain provisions; prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from restricting the height of certain proposed developments through other dimensional means and from requiring certain setbacks or stepbacks; revising the definitions of the terms "commercial use" and "industrial use"; revising applicability; providing retroactive applicability; authorizing applicants for certain proposed developments to notify the county or municipality, as applicable, by a specified date of intent to proceed under certain provisions; requiring counties and municipalities to allow certain applicants to submit revised applications, written requests, and notices of intent to account for changes made by the act; amending s. 196.1978, F.S.; creating a definition for "multifamily project"; revising a specified finding hb1389 -03-er2026 Legislature that a taxing authority must make in order to elect not to exempt certain property from certain ad valorem taxation; authorizing certain property owners in a multifamily project to apply for and continue to receive an exemption; amending s. 333.03, F.S.; providing an exception to the inapplicability of certain provisions; amending s. 760.22, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "person"; amending s. 760.26, F.S.; revising a prohibition on discriminatory practices in land use decisions and in permitting of development to include housing that is affordable; amending s. 760.35, F.S.; waiving the state's sovereign immunity for certain causes of action based upon housing discrimination; providing applicability; amending s. 420.615, F.S.; authorizing a local government to provide a density bonus incentive to landowners who make certain real property donations to assist in the provision of affordable housing for military families; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to evaluate the efficacy of using mezzanine finance and the potential of tiny homes for specified purposes; requiring the office to consult with certain entities; requiring the office to submit a certain report to the Legislature by a specified date; providing an hb1389 -03-er2026 Legislature effective date.

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Mike Redondo (R)*,  Webster Barnaby (R),  James Buchanan (R),  Danny Nix (R), 

Other Sponsors (2)

Ordered engrossed, then enrolled (on 03/13/2026)

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