Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB's 1400 & 1640
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/09/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Regulated Industries (Steube) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (330130) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 700 - 715
    5  and insert:
    6         (b)1. A local government may regulate activities that arise
    7  when a property is used as a vacation rental only when such
    8  regulation applies uniformly to all residential properties
    9  without regard to whether the property is used as a vacation
   10  rental or as a long-term rental subject to part II of chapter 83
   11  or whether a property owner chooses not to rent the property.
   12  Such regulation also may not prohibit vacation rentals or
   13  regulate the duration or frequency of a rental. This
   14  subparagraph does not apply to any local law, ordinance, or
   15  regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011, including when
   16  such local law, ordinance, or regulation is being amended to be
   17  less restrictive.
   18         2. The division shall make the vacation rental license
   19  information required under this chapter, including the
   20  operator’s emergency contact information, available to the
   21  public and local governments. Local governments may use this
   22  license information for informational purposes only. A local
   23  law, ordinance, or regulation may not prohibit vacation rentals
   24  or regulate the duration or frequency of rental of vacation
   25  rentals. This paragraph does not apply to any local law,
   26  ordinance, or regulation adopted on or before June 1, 2011.
   27         (c) Subparagraph (b)1. Paragraph (b) does not apply to any
   28  local law,
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   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 83 - 88
   33  and insert:
   34         public food service establishments; specifying that
   35         local governments may regulate activities that arise
   36         when a property is used as a vacation rental, subject
   37         to certain conditions; grandfathering certain local
   38         laws, ordinances, and regulations; requiring the
   39         division to make vacation rental license information
   40         available to the public and local governments;
   41         deleting a prohibition against certain local
   42         regulation of vacation rentals; amending ss. 159.27,