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2026 Legislative Issues
SB 48: Housing
GENERAL BILL by Gaetz
Housing; Authorizing a landlord to accept reusable tenant screening reports and require a specified statement; defining the term “primary dwelling unit”; requiring, rather than authorizing, local governments to adopt, by a specified date, an ordinance to allow accessory dwelling units in certain areas; 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, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 9/15/2025 Senate - Filed
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 65: Home Inspectors
GENERAL BILL by Gentry
Home Inspectors; Requires that home inspector examination meet specified requirements certified by DBPR; requires home inspectors to maintain errors & omissions insurance policy.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 10/7/2025 House - Now in Industries & Professional Activities Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
SB 78: Home Hardening Products
GENERAL BILL by Osgood
Home Hardening Products; Exempting from sales and use tax impact-resistant doors, garage doors, and windows, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 9/24/2025 Senate - Filed
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
SB 92: Employee Protections
GENERAL BILL by Gaetz
Employee Protections; Prohibiting agencies and independent contractors from taking specified actions against employees or certain persons for disclosing certain information to the Commission on Ethics; requiring that information disclosed include specified violations or alleged violations; providing that specified provisions protect employees and persons who submit written complaints to the commission or provide information to an investigator during an investigation of a complaint or referral, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 12/1/2025 Senate - On Committee agenda-- Governmental Oversight and Accountability, 12/09/25, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 185: Sales Tax Exemption for Home Hardening Products
GENERAL BILL by Dunkley
Sales Tax Exemption for Home Hardening Products; Exempts impact-resistant doors, garage doors, & windows from sales and use tax.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 10/21/2025 House - Now in Ways & Means Committee
Bill Text: PDF
HB 197: Employment Eligibility
GENERAL BILL by Jacques ; Michael ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Barnaby ; Miller
Employment Eligibility ; Requires that all private employers, rather than only those employing more than specified number of employees, use E-Verify system to verify new employee's employment eligibility beginning on specified date.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/5/2025 House - Now in Commerce Committee
Bill Text: PDF
SB 208: Land Use and Development Regulations
GENERAL BILL by McClain
Land Use and Development Regulations; Prohibiting local land development regulations from requiring the denial of, or conditioning or delaying the approval of, residential development on the basis of a lack of compatibility under certain circumstances; revising the circumstances under which land development regulations may be applied to a single-family or two-family dwelling; prohibiting local land development regulations from conditioning the approval of an application for certain residential development on the payment of certain fees, charges, or exactions; requiring that a fee or charge imposed by a local government in connection with the review, processing, or inspection of a residential development application meet certain requirements, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/19/2025 Senate - Now in Judiciary
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 241: Landlord Obligations and Construction Contracting
GENERAL BILL by Albert
Landlord Obligations and Construction Contracting; Requires landlords to provide & maintain specified cooling equipment for tenants; requires landlord to repair or replace such cooling equipment within specified timeframe; provides construction; provides exceptions; provides applicability; revises definitions of terms "class A air-conditioning contractor" & "mechanical contractor" to include additional services that such contractors may perform.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/5/2025 House - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Bill Text: PDF
HB 255: Condominium Associations
GENERAL BILL by Snyder
Condominium Associations; Provides that condominium association's turnover certificate & annual report must be maintained as part of association's official records; requires board of administration of condominium association to file with Division of Condominiums, Timeshares, & Mobile Homes turnover certificate within specified timeframe; requires turnover certificate to include certain information; requires division to maintain publicly accessible online database of turnover certificates, which must include specified information; requires division to create & maintain searchable electronic database of turnover certificates.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 10/23/2025 House - Filed
Bill Text: PDF
HB 299: Blue Ribbon Projects
GENERAL BILL by Melo
Blue Ribbon Projects; Requires that development project meet certain requirements to qualify as blue ribbon project; authorizes development of development area in phases; requires that blue ribbon project have blue ribbon plan; requires that project receive dollar-for-dollar credits from local government; specifies that project may be located on land with any future land use designation or zoning designation; prohibits required amendment of comprehensive plan or required rezoning for approval of project; authorizes landowner to apply to local government for approval of project; requires that project that meets certain requirements receive administrative approval; authorizes applicant to appeal denial of project application to Department of Commerce; authorizes person whose substantial interests are or may be affected by approval of project to file petition with Department of Commerce requesting administrative hearing.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/12/2025 House - Now in Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
SB 302: Nature-based Solutions for Improving Coastal Resilience
GENERAL BILL by Garcia
Nature-based Solutions for Improving Coastal Resilience; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules and guidelines for nature-based solutions for improving coastal resilience; requiring the department, in consultation with the Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services of the Department of Financial Services, to conduct a statewide feasibility study regarding the value of nature-based solutions being used for a specified purpose, etc. APPROPRIATION: $250,000
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/24/2025 Senate - On Committee agenda-- Environment and Natural Resources, 12/02/25, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
SB 322: Construction
GENERAL BILL by McClain
Construction; Revising the obligation of landlords to maintain certain premises to include making reasonable provisions for functioning facilities for cooling; revising the definitions of the terms “class A air-conditioning contractor” and “mechanical contractor”; authorizing the Construction Industry Licensing Board to award a specified number of hours of general continuing education credit per renewal cycle for certain professional association engagement; prohibiting a certificateholder or registrant from receiving credit for certain activities, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/17/2025 Senate - Referred to Regulated Industries; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
SB 360: Home Inspectors
GENERAL BILL by Martin
Home Inspectors; Revising elements of the required course of study for home inspectors; revising home inspector disclosure requirements; requiring home inspectors to maintain an errors and omissions insurance policy in a specified amount, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/17/2025 Senate - Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 399: Land Use and Development Regulations
GENERAL BILL by Borrero
Land Use and Development Regulations; Prohibits local governments from adopting certain local land development regulations; establishes requirements for certain local land development regulations that impose fee, charge, or exaction; declares certain local land development regulations null & void; requires OPPAGA to perform study to identify effect of removing Urban Development Boundary or similar boundaries in Miami-Dade County and other counties; requiring OPPAGA to submit specified report to Legislature by specified date.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/18/2025 House - Now in Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
HB 405: Commercial Construction Projects
GENERAL BILL by Griffitts
Commercial Construction Projects; Provides that provisions contained in public construction contracts which purport to waive, release, or extinguish certain rights of contractor are void & unenforceable; requires Florida Building Commission, in consultation with DBPR, to create uniform commercial building permit application; requires such application to include certain information & be accepted statewide; prohibits such application from being modified; authorizes local enforcement agencies to require supplemental forms or additional documentation or plans for specified commercial construction projects; provides requirements for such supplemental forms; requires local enforcement agencies to allow certain reviews to take place simultaneously; requires commission to electronically publish on its website & make available to local enforcement agencies & applicants such application by specified date; requires local enforcement agencies to reduce permit fees for commercial construction projects by certain percentages; prohibits local enforcement agencies from collecting any fees for commercial construction projects.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/12/2025 House - Filed
Bill Text: PDF
SB 434: Assessment of Property Used for Residential Purposes
GENERAL BILL by Leek
Assessment of Property Used for Residential Purposes; Defining the term “changes or improvements made to improve the property’s resistance to wind damage”; prohibiting the consideration of the increase in just value of a property which is attributable to changes or improvements made to improve the property’s resistance to wind damage in determinations of the assessed value of certain property, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 12/1/2025 Senate - Referred to Finance and Tax; Appropriations; Rules
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 441: Conservation Lands
GENERAL BILL by Kendall ; Tant ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Benarroch ; Black ; Eskamani ; Gossett-Seidman
Conservation Lands; Requires Division of State Lands to publish certain information on its website before Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund meets to review proposed sale of conservation lands; requires that certain parcels proposed for exchange be appraised in accordance with certain criteria; removes provisions requiring division to submit certain requests to Acquisition & Restoration Council for review; removes provisions requiring division to provide certain recommendations to board; requires division to publish certain information on its website before council meets to review proposed land exchange; requires division to submit certain requests to council for review & requiring council to provide recommendations to division in certain circumstances; requires division to provide certain recommendations to board of trustees in certain circumstances; requires governing board of water management district to publish certain information on its website before meeting to review proposed sale or exchange of certain lands.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/24/2025 House - Now in Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
SB 456: Tourist Development Tax
GENERAL BILL by Smith
Tourist Development Tax; Authorizing the use of proceeds from the tourist development tax to fund public safety improvements, affordable housing, and workforce housing, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 12/1/2025 Senate - Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Finance and Tax; Appropriations
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 457: Alternative Sources of Weather Information
GENERAL BILL by Gerwig
Alternative Sources of Weather Information; Requires state comprehensive emergency plan evaluate integration of supplemental weather observational data & advanced forecasting products & effect on specified areas; defines “advanced forecasting products” & “supplemental weather observational data”; requires Division of Emergency Management to take specified actions to integrate, evaluate, & promote supplemental weather observational data & advanced forecasting products in certain manner.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/24/2025 House - Now in Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
HB 489: Terminology Associated with Florida Housing Finance Corporation
GENERAL BILL by Owen
Terminology Associated with Florida Housing Finance Corporation; Revises & provides definitions pertaining to corporation.
Effective Date: upon becoming a law
Last Action: 11/24/2025 House - Now in Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
SB 492: Contracting
GENERAL BILL by Arrington
Contracting; Providing minimum penalties for certain unlawful actions, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 12/1/2025 Senate - Referred to Criminal Justice; Regulated Industries; Rules
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 501: Construction Disruption Assistance
GENERAL BILL by Eskamani
Construction Disruption Assistance; Creates Construction Impact Relief Revolving Loan Program; providing requirements for program; providing reporting requirements for Department of Commerce; provides that COM or any of its officers, employees, agents, or contractors are not liable in any civil action arising out of or relating to specified duties of program; provides that COM is not liable for any damages resulting from COM denying applicant loan or delaying loan disbursement or from certain activities; provides construction; provides that certain determinations, prioritizations, & decisions made are deemed final agency action & not subject to further judicial review; requires COM, by specified date, to submit annual report containing certain information to Governor & Legislature.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/24/2025 House - Now in Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee
Bill Text: PDF
SB 546: Conservation Lands
GENERAL BILL by Mayfield
Conservation Lands; Requiring the Division of State Lands to publish certain information on its website before the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund meets to review the proposed sale of conservation lands; requiring that certain parcels proposed for exchange be appraised in accordance with certain criteria; requiring the governing board of a water management district to publish certain information on its website before meeting to review the proposed sale or exchange of certain lands, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/18/2025 Senate - Filed
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
SB 548: Growth Management
GENERAL BILL by McClain
Growth Management; Deleting an exception to an applicability provision relating to concurrency; requiring that a demonstrated-need study use plan-based methodology for a certain purpose; revising the voting threshold required for approval of an ordinance increasing an impact fee beyond certain phase-in limitations; prohibiting local governments and school districts from increasing impact fee rates beyond certain phase-in limitations by more than a specified percentage within a certain timeframe, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/18/2025 Senate - Filed
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
HB 607: Industries and Professional Activities
GENERAL BILL by Yarkosky
Industries and Professional Activities; Renames, removes, & redesignates specified boards, commissions, and councils established within DBPR; changes office locations of certain divisions; specifies that certain license application requirements apply only to certain professions; provides licensing authority to department rather than licensing boards; removes postlicensure education requirements for brokers, broker associates, and sales associates; removes continuing education requirements for licensure renewal as broker, broker associate, and sales associate; removes continuing education requirements for licensure renewal due to inactive status; revises provisions pertaining to board to transfer powers, duties, and responsibilities of board to DBPR; granting certain authority to department, rather than Florida Real Estate Appraisal Board; requires department to adopt rules; revises violations for which retail tobacco products dealers are penalized; revises retail nicotine product dealer administrative penalties; requires FDLE to accept and process certain fingerprints; specifies procedures for submitting and processing fingerprinting; requires department to conduct certain background checks.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 12/2/2025 House - Filed
Bill Text: PDF
SB 612: Construction Disruption Assistance
GENERAL BILL by Smith
Construction Disruption Assistance; Creating the "Construction Disruption Assistance Act"; establishing the Construction Impact Relief Revolving Loan Program within the Department of Commerce; requiring the department to provide specified financial assistance to eligible small businesses within construction zones; requiring the department to develop a public awareness and marketing campaign to promote the program in partnership with specified entities, etc.
Effective Date: 7/1/2026
Last Action: 11/20/2025 Senate - Filed
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
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