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FL S1316

Bill

Status

Failed

6/16/2025

Primary Sponsor

Erin Grall

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates two types of citizen-initiated "resilience districts" in Florida: infrastructure resilience districts (for public infrastructure like flood mitigation, septic-to-sewer conversion, and sea level rise projects) and condominium resilience districts (for funding reserves, structural improvements, and building code compliance), established through petitions requiring 70% landowner or unit owner consent.

  • Requires petitions to be filed with local governments, which must hold public hearings within 90 days; local governments may only deny petitions by supermajority vote based on specified factors such as boundary compliance, negative impacts on surrounding property owners, or a commitment to fund the project themselves within 5 years.

  • Mandates that resilience districts be compact, limited in purpose, and automatically terminate once all debt is paid, prohibiting districts from existing in perpetuity or adding projects beyond those in the original petition unless approved by 70% of unit owners within 5 years.

  • Caps project management fees at 5% of design and construction costs for local government managers (10% for outside firms) and property appraiser administrative fees at 2% of annual collections, with all fees factored into the loan amount.

  • Requires disclosure statements in all real property sale contracts within a district, a recorded notice of establishment within 30 days, annual budgets published to residents, and the dissolution and reconstitution of any existing special taxing district sharing more than 90% geographic overlap with a new resilience district.

Legislative Description

Resilience Districts

Last Action

Died in Community Affairs

6/16/2025

Full Bill Text

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