Florida Senate - 2012                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 454
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/08/2012 09:57 AM       .                                
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       Senator Wise moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 78 and 79
    4  insert:
    5         9. Any roominghouse, boardinghouse, or other living or
    6  sleeping facility that may not be classified as a hotel, motel,
    7  vacation rental, nontransient apartment, bed and breakfast inn,
    8  or transient apartment under s. 509.242.
    9         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 509.242, Florida
   10  Statutes, is amended to read:
   11         509.242 Public lodging establishments; classifications.—
   12         (1) A public lodging establishment shall be classified as a
   13  hotel, motel, nontransient apartment, transient apartment,
   14  roominghouse, bed and breakfast inn, or vacation rental if the
   15  establishment satisfies the following criteria:
   16         (a) Hotel.—A hotel is any public lodging establishment
   17  containing sleeping room accommodations for 25 or more guests
   18  and providing the services generally provided by a hotel and
   19  recognized as a hotel in the community in which it is situated
   20  or by the industry.
   21         (b) Motel.—A motel is any public lodging establishment
   22  which offers rental units with an exit to the outside of each
   23  rental unit, daily or weekly rates, offstreet parking for each
   24  unit, a central office on the property with specified hours of
   25  operation, a bathroom or connecting bathroom for each rental
   26  unit, and at least six rental units, and which is recognized as
   27  a motel in the community in which it is situated or by the
   28  industry.
   29         (c) Vacation rental.—A vacation rental is any unit or group
   30  of units in a condominium, cooperative, or timeshare plan or any
   31  individually or collectively owned single-family, two-family,
   32  three-family, or four-family house or dwelling unit that is also
   33  a transient public lodging establishment.
   34         (d) Nontransient apartment or roominghouse.—A nontransient
   35  apartment or roominghouse is a building or complex of buildings
   36  in which 75 percent or more of the units are available for rent
   37  to nontransient tenants.
   38         (e) Transient apartment or roominghouse.—A transient
   39  apartment or roominghouse is a building or complex of buildings
   40  in which more than 25 percent of the units are advertised or
   41  held out to the public as available for transient occupancy.
   42         (f) Roominghouse.—A roominghouse is any public lodging
   43  establishment that may not be classified as a hotel, motel,
   44  nontransient apartment, bed and breakfast inn, vacation rental,
   45  or transient apartment under this section. A roominghouse
   46  includes, but is not limited to, a boardinghouse.
   47         (f)(g)Bed and breakfast inn.—A bed and breakfast inn is a
   48  family home structure, with no more than 15 sleeping rooms,
   49  which has been modified to serve as a transient public lodging
   50  establishment, which provides the accommodation and meal
   51  services generally offered by a bed and breakfast inn, and which
   52  is recognized as a bed and breakfast inn in the community in
   53  which it is situated or by the hospitality industry.
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   56         And the title is amended as follows:
   57         Delete lines 6 - 12
   58  and insert:
   59         housing for persons at least 62 years of age and
   60         certain roominghouses, boardinghouses, and other
   61         living or sleeping facilities; authorizing the
   62         Division of Hotels and Restaurants to require written
   63         documentation from an apartment building operator that
   64         such building is in compliance with certain criteria;
   65         authorizing the division to adopt certain rules;
   66         amending s. 509.242, F.S.; revising public lodging
   67         establishment classifications; providing an effective
   68         date.