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FL S0864

Bill

Status

Introduced

12/8/2009

Primary Sponsor

Rene Garcia

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Origin

Senate

2010 Regular Session

AI Summary

SB 864 Summary

  • Expands Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes inspection powers to examine premises, books, and records of condominiums, cooperatives, timeshares, mobile home parks, and community association managers.

  • Imposes mandatory permanent license revocation for community association managers upon their fifth (or third for a specific ground) disciplinary finding, eliminating discretionary penalties.

  • Establishes comprehensive governance requirements for condominiums, cooperatives, and homeowners' associations including director qualifications, meeting procedures, financial reporting standards, and restrictions on political/charitable contributions.

  • Creates new termination procedures for cooperatives based on economic waste or impossibility, allowing property disposition and proceeds distribution to shareholders through a trustee-managed process.

  • Adds protections for association members including anti-SLAPP provisions, requirements for advance notice before unit access (except emergencies), restrictions on board borrowing without member approval, and tenant assessment payment procedures during foreclosure.

Legislative Description

Community Associations [CPSC]

Last Action

Withdrawn from Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Banking and Insurance; Judiciary; General Government Appropriations -SJ 00268; Withdrawn from further consideration, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/CS/SB 1196 (Ch. 2010-174) -SJ 00268

3/18/2010

Committee Referrals

Regulated Industries1/14/2010

Full Bill Text

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