HB 175 Summary

• Removes housing discrimination as a cause of action under Section 760.07, limiting relief and damages claims to non-housing areas of discrimination (education, employment, public accommodations).

• Allows aggrieved persons to commence civil actions for discriminatory housing practices without first pursuing administrative remedies or obtaining a decision from the Florida Commission on Human Relations.

• Changes civil action deadline from mandatory to permissive, authorizing actions no later than 2 years after alleged discriminatory housing practice occurs.

• Prohibits aggrieved persons from filing civil actions if an administrative law judge has already commenced a hearing on the record regarding the same allegation.

• Takes effect upon becoming law with no specified effective date restriction.