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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1471: Housing

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1471 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Housing. Primary sponsor: Rita Harris (Democratic). It lists 13 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in State Affairs Committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Housing; Creates Department of Housing & Tenant Rights; provides requirements for rental agreements; prohibits landlords from requiring prospective tenants to pay certain fees; revises & specifies grounds for termination of rental agreement; authorizes tenants, mobile home owners, mobile home tenants, & mobile home occupants who are defendants in eviction proceedings to file motion with court to have records of such proceedings sealed & to have their names substituted on progress docket; requires landlord to give tenants opportunity to purchase dwelling unit or premises; prohibits landlord from evicting tenant or terminating rental agreement because tenant or tenant's minor child is victim of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking; prohibits purchase of single-family homes for specified purpose; authorizes civil investigations & actions; authorizes award of certain relief; authorizes local governments & special districts to adopt specified impact fee; authorizes municipalities to create community land bank programs; requires certain municipalities to develop & annually adopt community land bank plan; authorizes land banks to buy certain property for less than market value; requires land banks to offer qualified organizations right of first refusal to purchase certain property; provides that rental of certain homestead property does not constitute abandonment; creates Retail-to-residence Tax Credit Program & Affordable Housing Construction Loan Program.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 14

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Rita HarrisPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Robin BartlemanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse103
Daryl CampbellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse99
LaVon Bracy DavisCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Fentrice DriskellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse67
Anna EskamaniCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Mike GottliebCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse102
Yvonne HinsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse21
Dotie JosephCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse108
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Felicia RobinsonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse104
Mitch RosenwaldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse98
Kelly SkidmoreCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse92
Leonard SpencerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse45

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in State Affairs Committee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in State Affairs Committee
  4. Referred to Judiciary Committee
  5. Referred to Budget Committee
  6. Referred to Ways & Means Committee
  7. Referred to State Affairs Committee
  8. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  9. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source