Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 382
       
       
        
       By Senator Bernard
       
       
       
       
       
       24-01138-25                                            2025382__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to rent of affordable housing dwelling
    3         units; amending s. 83.46, F.S.; prohibiting certain
    4         landlords of specified dwelling units from increasing
    5         rent during the term of a rental agreement; providing
    6         construction; defining the term “affordable”;
    7         providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (4) is added to section 83.46,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         83.46 Rent; duration of tenancies.—
   14         (4) A person who is a landlord of a dwelling unit that
   15  qualifies as affordable housing and who has received federal,
   16  state, or local funding or tax incentives because of the
   17  dwelling unit’s status as an affordable housing unit may not
   18  increase the rent of the dwelling unit during the term of a
   19  rental agreement. This subsection does not prohibit a landlord
   20  from increasing the rent of a dwelling unit that qualifies as
   21  affordable housing when a tenant is renewing his or her rental
   22  agreement. As used in this subsection, the term “affordable” has
   23  the same meaning as in s. 420.0004.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.