Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 386
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/19/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Harrell) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 27 - 58
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 83.803, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         83.803 Definitions.—As used in ss. 83.801-83.809:
    8         (1) “Last known address” means the street address or post
    9  office box address provided by the tenant in the latest rental
   10  agreement or provided to the owner in accordance with the terms
   11  of the rental agreement in a subsequent written change-of
   12  address notice provided by hand delivery, first-class mail, or
   13  e-mail.
   14         Section 2. Subsections (1) and (4) of section 83.806,
   15  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   16         83.806 Enforcement of lien.—An owner’s lien as provided in
   17  s. 83.805 may be satisfied as follows:
   18         (1) The owner must notify the tenant and any alternate
   19  contact tenant shall be notified by written notice delivered in
   20  person, by e-mail, or by first-class mail with a certificate of
   21  mailing to the tenant’s and, if applicable, the alternate
   22  contact’s last known addresses address and conspicuously posted
   23  at the self-service storage facility or on the self-contained
   24  storage unit. If the owner sends notice of a pending sale of
   25  property to the tenant’s last known e-mail address and does not
   26  receive a response, return receipt, or delivery confirmation
   27  from the same e-mail address, the owner must send notice of the
   28  sale to the tenant by first-class mail with a certificate of
   29  mailing to the tenant’s last known address before proceeding
   30  with the sale.
   31         (4) After the expiration of the time given in the notice,
   32  an advertisement of the sale or other disposition must shall be
   33  published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of
   34  general circulation in the area where the self-service storage
   35  facility or self-contained storage unit is located or posted for
   36  7 consecutive days on a public website that customarily conducts
   37  or advertises personal property auctions or sales.