Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 382
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/25/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Bernard) recommended 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. Subsection (4) is added to section 83.46,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         83.46 Rent; duration of tenancies.—
    8         (4)(a) As used in this subsection, the term:
    9         1. “Affordable” has the same meaning as in s. 420.0004(3).
   10         2. “Base rent” means the initial rent for a dwelling unit
   11  charged by a landlord which is calculated based on a formula
   12  dictated by an affordable housing program and which is based on
   13  the most recent publication of the federal Department of Housing
   14  and Urban Development’s Area Median Income; based on reasonable
   15  rent calculated by a public housing agency; or is otherwise
   16  based on the terms of the affordable housing program. Base rent
   17  applies before deduction of monthly housing assistance payments
   18  or the like to calculate a monthly net rent payable by the
   19  tenant.
   20         (b) A person that is a landlord of a dwelling unit that
   21  qualifies as affordable housing and who has received federal,
   22  state, or local funding or tax incentives because of the
   23  dwelling unit’s status as an affordable housing unit may not
   24  increase the base rent of the dwelling unit during the term of a
   25  rental agreement.
   26         (c) This subsection does not prohibit a landlord from
   27  increasing the base rent of a dwelling unit that qualifies as
   28  affordable housing when a tenant is renewing his or her rental
   29  agreement, or prohibit changes to the net rent based on changes
   30  to the tenant’s qualifications for a housing assistance payment
   31  under the terms of such affordable housing program.
   32         (d) This subsection applies to rental agreements that have
   33  a term of 13 months or less and are entered into on or after
   34  July 1, 2026.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   37  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   38  And the title is amended as follows:
   39         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   40  and insert:
   41                        A bill to be entitled                      
   42         An act relating to rent of affordable housing dwelling
   43         units; amending s. 83.46, F.S.; defining the terms
   44         “affordable” and “base rent”; prohibiting certain
   45         landlords of specified dwelling units from increasing
   46         the base rent during the term of a rental agreement;
   47         providing construction; providing applicability;
   48         providing an effective date.