Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 798
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/24/2014           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Ring) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (582410) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 668 - 691
    5  and insert:
    6         (1)(a) A unit owner, regardless of how his or her title has
    7  been acquired, including by purchase at a foreclosure sale or by
    8  deed in lieu of foreclosure, is liable for all assessments which
    9  come due while he or she is the unit owner. Additionally, a unit
   10  owner is jointly and severally liable with the previous owner
   11  for all unpaid assessments that came due up to the time of
   12  transfer of title. This liability is without prejudice to any
   13  right the owner may have to recover from the previous owner the
   14  amounts paid by the owner. For the purposes of this paragraph,
   15  the term “previous owner” does not include an association that
   16  acquires title to a delinquent property through foreclosure or
   17  by deed in lieu of foreclosure. The present unit owner’s
   18  liability for unpaid assessments is limited to any unpaid
   19  assessments that accrued before the association acquired title
   20  to the delinquent property through foreclosure or by deed in
   21  lieu of foreclosure.
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   23  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   24  And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete lines 46 - 51
   26  and insert:
   27         F.S.; clarifying the meaning of the term “previous
   28         owner”; limiting the present owner’s liability for
   29         unpaid assessments to those that accrued before the
   30         association acquired title;