Florida Senate - 2017                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/HB 425, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Steube moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of section
    6  509.032, Florida Statutes, is amended, and a new paragraph (d)
    7  is added to that subsection, to read:
    8         509.032 Duties.—
    9         (7) PREEMPTION AUTHORITY.—
   10         (b) A local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit
   11  vacation rentals or regulate the duration or frequency of rental
   12  of vacation rentals. This paragraph does not apply to any local
   13  law, ordinance, or regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011.
   14  This paragraph also does not apply to any local law, ordinance,
   15  or regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011, if that local
   16  law, ordinance, or regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011,
   17  is being amended to be less restrictive as to duration or
   18  frequency.
   19         (d) For properties owned, in whole or in part, by a
   20  servicemember as defined in s. 250.01 or by a disabled veteran
   21  with a service-connected disability rating of 30 percent or more
   22  according to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a
   23  local law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit such
   24  properties from being used as a vacation rental or regulate the
   25  duration or frequency of the vacation rental of such properties.
   26  This prohibition shall include local laws, ordinances, or
   27  regulations adopted before June 1, 2011.
   28         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   33  and insert:
   34                        A bill to be entitled                      
   35         An act relating to vacation rentals; amending s.
   36         509.032, F.S.; revising applicability for a preemption
   37         of certain local laws, ordinances, or regulations
   38         regarding vacation rentals; specifying that local
   39         laws, ordinances, or regulations regarding vacation
   40         rentals may not prohibit servicemember or certain
   41         disabled veteran-owned properties from being used as
   42         vacation rentals or regulate the frequency or duration
   43         of such rentals; providing an effective date.