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Priority Bills of Interest

Estoppel Letters (i.e. Morgage Payoff) - FLTA Priority

HB 743 - Estoppel Letters (Companion SB 708)

Fabricio

Revises timeframe for mortgagee or mortgage servicer to send estoppel letter; revises requirements for estoppel letter; prohibits mortgagee or mortgage servicer from denying accuracy of estoppel letter; requires payments be applied to unpaid balance of mortgage; provides methods for sending written request for estoppel letter, estoppel letter, & corrected estoppel letter; requires mortgagee or mortgage servicer to take actions within specified time after unpaid balance of loan secured by mortgage has been fully paid; authorizes attorney fees & costs; provides liability.

SB 708 - Estoppel Letters (Companion HB 743)

Burgess

Estoppel Letters; Revising the timeframe within which a mortgagee or mortgage servicer must send or cause to be sent an estoppel letter containing specified information; requiring notice to the mortgagor of a request for an estoppel letter under certain circumstances; revising requirements for an estoppel letter; prohibiting certain actions by the mortgagee or mortgage servicer; prohibiting the mortgagee or mortgage servicer from denying the accuracy of certain information provided in an estoppel letter under certain circumstances; prohibiting payments received pursuant to an estoppel letter from being returned and requiring such payments to be promptly applied to any unpaid balance of the loan properly due under or secured by a mortgage, etc.

• Judiciary Committee- On Agenda for 3/21/23

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Residential Real Estate Listing Agreements - FLTA Priority

HB 861 - Residential Real Estate Listing Agreements (Companion SB 770) 

Robinson, W.

Specifies limitation on term of option to enter into listing agreement for disposition of residential real property; prohibits court from enforcing option to enter into listing agreement by certain means; requires notice & written agreement of residential property owner before broker may assign option to enter into listing agreement to another broker; provides penalties for violations.

• March 9 - In committee, HB 861 Temporarily Postponed by rule for Bill Title Change
• • Bill amended to read
• March 16 - On Agenda for Regulatory Reform & Economic Development 
  
• • PCS for HB 861Amendment Filed (Passed)
• March 17 - Committee Substitute for HB 861 (Current Approved Language)

SB 770 - Residential Real Estate Agreements (Companion HB 861)

Bradley

Specifying a limitation on the term of an option to enter into a listing agreement for the disposition of residential real property; prohibiting a court from enforcing an option to enter into a listing agreement by certain means; requiring notice and a written agreement of the residential property owner before a broker may assign the option to enter into a listing agreement to another broker, etc.

• March 14 - On Regulated Industries committee agenda
• • Passed unanimously, to be sent to Judiciary Committee

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Department of Financial Services - FLTA Priority

HB 487 - Department of Financial Services (Companion SB 1158)

Salzman

Department of Financial Services; Removes provisions prohibiting individuals holding specified insurance licenses from holding certain other insurance licenses; provides disposition of funds received by title insurance agencies & funds required to be maintained in escrow trust accounts; exempts appointed public adjusters from certain insurance activities' prohibitions; requires navigators' registrations to expire under certain circumstances; prohibits insurers & insurance agents from engaging in specified practices relating to collateral protection property insurance; removes certain financial requirements for warranty associations & parent corporations; prohibits department from issuing temporary bail bond agent's licenses; specifies procedures for remission of forfeitures of deceased defendants; specifies procedures for remission of forfeitures of defendants for whom state is unwilling to seek extradition.

SB 1158 - Department of Financial Services (Companion HB 487)

DiCeglie

Revising powers and duties of the department’s Division of Investigative and Forensic Services; deleting a requirement for the Department of Children and Families and the community-based care lead agency to provide certain financial literacy curriculum information to certain youth; revising conditions for a nonprofit religious organization to be exempt from requirements of the Florida Insurance Code; adding violations for which the department may pay rewards under the Anti-Fraud Reward Program; authorizing the Division of State Fire Marshal to establish a direct-support organization; specifying requirements and procedures for the licensure of nonresident sales representatives for home warranty associations, etc.

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Purchase or Acquisition of Real Property and Strategic Assets by People's Republic of China

HB 835 - Purchase or Acquisition of Real Property and Strategic Assets by People's Republic of China (Companion SB 924)

Waldron

Prohibits People's Republic of China from purchasing or acquiring real property & strategic assets in the state.

SB 924 - Purchase or Acquisition of Real Property and Strategic Assets by People's Republic of China (Companion HB 835)

Berman

Purchase or Acquisition of Real Property and Strategic Assets by the People’s Republic of China; Prohibiting the People’s Republic of China from purchasing or acquiring certain real property and strategic assets in this state, etc.

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Interest of Foreign Countries

HB 1355 - Interest of Foreign Countries

Borrero

Prohibits governmental entities from knowingly entering into certain contracts & taking specified actions after specified date relating to contracts that give certain access to personal identifying information; prohibits governmental entities from knowingly entering into certain contracts; requires government entities to require affidavit from applicants before providing any economic incentive; prohibits foreign principals from purchasing agricultural land, or interest in such land, & certain real property in state; requires certain foreign principals that own or acquire such land or real property to register with specified department; prohibits People's Republic of China, Chinese Communist Party, any other political party or member of political party in People's Republic of China, & certain persons & entities from purchasing or acquiring real property in state; requires that certain information held by health care providers that utilize certified electronic health record technology be maintained in continental United States.

SB 264 - Interest of Foreign Countries

Collins

Interests of Foreign Countries; Prohibiting governmental entities from knowingly entering into certain contracts; authorizing the Attorney General to bring a civil action; providing penalties; requiring government entities to require an affidavit from applicants before providing any economic incentive; prohibiting foreign principals from purchasing agricultural land, or interest in such land, and certain real property in the state, respectively; authorizing foreign principals to continue to own or hold such land or property under certain circumstances, etc.

• Judiciary Committee - March 14 - (Passed 12-0)
• Rules Committee (Awaiting to be added to calendar)

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Real Property Fraud

HB 1419 - Real Property Fraud (Companion SB 1436)

Robinson, W.

Requires clerk of circuit court to create, maintain, & operate opt-in recording notification service through electronic registration portal; specifies portal & notification requirements; provides immunity from liability for clerk; clarifies that action may be brought to quiet title after fraudulent attempted conveyance; directs clerk to provide simplified complaint form; requires real estate licensees & parties providing real estate transaction closing services to send fraud prevention notice; limits liability of real estate licensee for noncompliance but provides that such noncompliance may be introduced as evidence for certain violations; provides that failure of property owner to respond notice does not preclude or limit his or her ability to establish certain challenges or defenses or limit his or her remedy in any quiet title or declaratory judgment action; prescribes form for quitclaim deed; revises requirements for recording instruments affecting real property.

• March 20 - Civil Justice Committee - On Agenda

SB 1436 - Real Property Fraud (Companion HB 1419)

Bradley

Real Property Fraud; Requiring the clerk of the circuit court to create, maintain, and operate a specified recording notification service; authorizing an action to quiet title based on a fraudulent attempted conveyance allegation to be maintained under ch. 65, F.S.; specifying that a petitioner bringing such action is entitled to summary procedure; requiring real estate licensees to send, or cause to be sent, copies of signed listing agreements and specified notices to certain persons; requiring parties scheduled to provide real estate transaction closing services to send, or cause to be sent, specified notices to certain persons within a specified timeframe, etc.

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Abandoned Cemeteries

HB 49 - Abandoned and Historic Cemeteries (Companion SB 430)

Driskell

Abandoned and Historic Cemeteries: Creates Historic Cemeteries Program within Division of Historical Resources of DOS; creates Historic Cemeteries Program Advisory Council; authorizes certain entities to acquire conservation easements to preserve cemeteries.

• Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee - Passed 14-0
  
• Infrastructure & Tourism Appropriations Committee (Awaiting to be calendared)
• State Affairs Committee 

SB 430 - Abandoned and Historic Cemeteries (Companion HB 49)

Powell

Creating the Historic Cemeteries Program within the Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State; designating the State Historic Preservation Officer as the program’s director and requiring him or her to hire employees, subject to legislative appropriation; creating the Historic Cemeteries Program Advisory Council within the division; revising the definition of the term “conservation easement” to include a right or interest in real property which is appropriate to retaining the structural integrity or physical appearance of certain cemeteries, etc.

• Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee - Passed
• March 17 - CS for SB 430 - Current Version
• Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Committee
  
• Appropriations Committee

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Limited Liability Companies

HB 1345 - Limited Liability Companies

Jacques

Provides for protected series of series limited liability company & foreign protected series of foreign series limited liability company; provides for nature, governing law, operating agreement, registered agent, service, certificates, associated assets, associated members, protected-series transferable interest, management, liabilities, remedies, enforcement of judgments against, dissolution, & merger of such companies & protected series of such companies.

SB 1324 - Limited Liability Companies

Berman

Limited Liability Companies; Creating the "Uniform Protected Series Provisions"; providing that a protected series of a series limited liability company is a person distinct from certain other entities; authorizing series limited liability companies to establish protected series; providing requirements for becoming an associated member of a protected series; requiring that protected-series transferable interests be initially owned by an associated member or a series limited liability company; providing specifications for the dissolution of series limited liability companies, etc.