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The 2025 Florida
Legislative Session will start on March 4, 2025.
If you own property in a HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION regulated by Florida
Statute 720, below are the bills filed that will directly affect you.
For the ANALYSIS of these
bills please visit the Webpages of our
LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE!
HOA (FS 720)
SB
120:
Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman
GENERAL BILL by Senator Danny
Burgess
Companion Bill (Identical) : HB
137
Homeowners’ Association
Ombudsman; Creating the Office of the
Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman within the
Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares,
and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business
and Professional Regulation; providing that the
ombudsman serves at the pleasure of the
Governor; prohibiting the ombudsman and officers
and full-time employees of the office from
holding certain positions, engaging in certain
activities, or receiving certain remuneration;
providing for the administration of an election
monitoring process, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2025
HB
137: Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman
GENERAL BILL by Representative Jervonte
Edmonds
Companion Bill (Identical) : SB
120
Homeowners' Association Ombudsman; Creates
Office of Homeowners' Association Ombudsman
within Division of Florida Condominiums,
Timeshares, & Mobile Homes of DBPR; provides for
funding of office; directs Governor to appoint
ombudsman; provides requirements for ombudsman;
prohibits ombudsman & officers & full-time
employees of office from holding certain
positions, engaging in certain activities, or
receiving certain remuneration; provides for
principal location of ombudsman's office;
specifies powers & duties of ombudsman; provides
for administration of election monitoring
process; provides that specified rule governs
administration of election monitoring.
Effective Date: 7/1/2025
SB
368: Community
Associations
GENERAL BILL by Senator Ileana
Garcia
Companion Bill (Compare) :
Community Associations; Creating
the Condominium
and Homeowners’ Association Economic Crime,
Fraud, and Corruption Investigation Pilot
Program within
the Department of Legal Affairs; authorizing the
department to contract with a private entity to
achieve the program’s purpose; requiring that
the pilot program be funded from the Division of
Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile
Homes Trust Fund; requiring the division to
monitor condominium associations’ compliance
with requirements relating to maintenance of
certain insurance or fidelity bonding of certain
persons, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2025
If you own a unit
in a CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION regulated by Florida Statute 718 or
in a CO-OP regulated by FS 719, below are the bills that
will directly affect you.
CONDO (FS
718) +
CO-OP (FS 719)
SB
368: Community
Associations
GENERAL BILL by Senator Ileana
Garcia
Companion Bill (Compare) :
Community Associations; Creating
the Condominium
and Homeowners’ Association Economic Crime,
Fraud, and Corruption Investigation Pilot
Program within
the Department of Legal Affairs; authorizing the
department to contract with a private entity to
achieve the program’s purpose; requiring that
the pilot program be funded from the Division of
Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile
Homes Trust Fund; requiring the division to
monitor condominium associations’ compliance
with requirements relating to maintenance of
certain insurance or fidelity bonding of certain
persons, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2025
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