Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 784
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/18/2025 .
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The Committee on Community Affairs (Ingoglia) 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. Present subsections (1) and (2) of section
6 177.071, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (2)
7 and (3), respectively, and a new subsection (1) is added to that
8 section, to read:
9 177.071 Approval of plat by governing bodies.—
10 (1) Plat or replat submittals shall be reviewed and
11 approved administratively by a designee or designees of the
12 appropriate local governing body. Within 15 days after receipt
13 of a plat or replat submittal, the designee or designees of the
14 appropriate local governing body shall review the plat or replat
15 submittal for compliance with s. 177.091. If it is determined
16 that such plat or replat submittal fails to meet the
17 requirements of s. 177.091, written comments specifying the
18 areas of noncompliance must be provided to the applicant within
19 the 15-day review period. The plat or replat submittal must be
20 approved, approved with conditions, or denied within 30 working
21 days from the date that the plat or replat is submitted, unless
22 a written extension of this timeframe is requested by the
23 applicant and approved by the governing body. An official,
24 employee, agent, or designee of the governing body may not
25 request or require the applicant to file a written extension of
26 time.
27 Section 2. Section 177.1115, Florida Statutes, is created
28 to read:
29 177.1115 Issuance of address and an individual parcel
30 identification number after final plat is recorded; private
31 provider alternative; penalty.—
32 (1) Within 14 business days after the recordation of a plat
33 by the circuit court clerk or other recording officer, the
34 appropriate governing body shall issue the street and mailing
35 address, along with the individual parcel identification number,
36 as contained in the plat offered for recording pursuant to s.
37 177.091.
38 (2) If the appropriate governing body does not issue the
39 required street and mailing address, along with the individual
40 parcel identification number, within the 14-business-day period
41 prescribed in subsection (1), the applicant may engage a private
42 provider, duly registered in this state, to create the required
43 address and parcel identification number in accordance with
44 applicable local, state, and national addressing standards.
45 (a) Upon completion, the private provider shall submit the
46 assigned address and parcel identification number to the
47 governing body for verification. The governing body must
48 complete its verification process within 5 business days after
49 receiving the submission.
50 (b) If the governing body fails to verify the submitted
51 address and parcel identification number within 5 business days,
52 the address assigned by the private provider must be deemed
53 approved for all official purposes.
54 (3) The governing body may not collect an addressing fee if
55 it fails to issue the required address and parcel identification
56 number within the timeframes specified in this section.
57 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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59 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
60 And the title is amended as follows:
61 Delete everything before the enacting clause
62 and insert:
63 A bill to be entitled
64 An act relating to platting; amending s. 177.071,
65 F.S.; requiring that plat or replat submittals be
66 reviewed and approved administratively by a designee
67 or designees of the appropriate local governing body;
68 requiring such designee or designees to review such
69 plat or replat submittal for compliance within a
70 specified timeframe; requiring that written comments
71 be provided to the applicant if the plat or replat
72 submittal fails to meet specified requirements;
73 requiring that the plat or replat submittal be
74 approved, approved with conditions, or denied within a
75 specified timeframe; providing an exception;
76 prohibiting certain entities from requesting or
77 requiring an applicant to file a written extension of
78 time; creating s. 177.1115, F.S.; requiring the
79 appropriate governing body, within a specified
80 timeframe after the recordation of the plat, to issue
81 certain information; authorizing an applicant to
82 engage a specified private provider under certain
83 circumstances; requiring that such provider submit
84 specified information to the governing body for
85 verification; requiring the governing body to complete
86 verification within a specified timeframe; requiring
87 that the information submitted by the provider is
88 deemed approved if the governing body fails to verify
89 it within the specified timeframe; prohibiting the
90 governing body from collecting an addressing fee under
91 certain circumstances; providing an effective date.