Florida Senate - 2022                                     SB 580
       
       
        
       By Senator Torres
       
       
       
       
       
       15-00728-22                                            2022580__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to rent control measures; amending ss.
    3         125.0103 and 166.043, F.S.; deleting requirements for
    4         the termination, expiration, extension, and renewal of
    5         local governmental rent control measures; providing an
    6         effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Subsection (3) and present subsection (6) of
   11  section 125.0103, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   12         125.0103 Ordinances and rules imposing price controls;
   13  findings required; procedures.—
   14         (3) Any law, ordinance, rule, or other measure which has
   15  the effect of imposing controls on rents shall terminate and
   16  expire within 1 year and shall not be extended or renewed except
   17  by the adoption of a new measure meeting all the requirements of
   18  this section.
   19         (5)(6) In any court action brought to challenge the
   20  validity of rent control imposed pursuant to the provisions of
   21  this section, the evidentiary effect of any findings or
   22  recitations required by subsection (4) (5) shall be limited to
   23  imposing upon any party challenging the validity of such measure
   24  the burden of going forward with the evidence, and the burden of
   25  proof (that is, the risk of nonpersuasion) shall rest upon any
   26  party seeking to have the measure upheld.
   27         Section 2. Subsection (3) and present subsection (6) of
   28  section 166.043, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   29         166.043 Ordinances and rules imposing price controls;
   30  findings required; procedures.—
   31         (3) Any law, ordinance, rule, or other measure which has
   32  the effect of imposing controls on rents shall terminate and
   33  expire within 1 year and shall not be extended or renewed except
   34  by the adoption of a new measure meeting all the requirements of
   35  this section.
   36         (5)(6) In any court action brought to challenge the
   37  validity of rent control imposed pursuant to the provisions of
   38  this section, the evidentiary effect of any findings or
   39  recitations required by subsection (4) (5) shall be limited to
   40  imposing upon any party challenging the validity of such measure
   41  the burden of going forward with the evidence, and the burden of
   42  proof (that is, the risk of nonpersuasion) shall rest upon any
   43  party seeking to have the measure upheld.
   44         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.