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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 701: Local Housing Assistance Plans

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 701 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 18, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Local Housing Assistance Plans. Primary sponsor: Kim Berfield (Republican), Paula Stark (Republican), Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee. It lists 10 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Rules.

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.

Local Housing Assistance Plans; Authorizes county or eligible municipality to expend certain funds on lot rental assistance to mobile home owners for specified time period; requires counties & eligible municipalities to develop certain strategies in their local housing assistance plans; provides that lot rental assistance is approved home ownership activity for certain purposes; authorizes certain funds to be provided to mobile home owners for rehabilitation & emergency repairs; removes prohibition that only certain percentage of funds may be used for manufactured housing.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 6 · Republican 6

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Kim BerfieldPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse58
Paula StarkPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse47
Housing, Agriculture & Tourism SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Doug BanksonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse39
Webster BarnabyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse29
Erika BoothCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse35
Kim DanielsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse14
Anna EskamaniCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Anne GerwigCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse93
Rita HarrisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Mitch RosenwaldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse98
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 Rules
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Received
  4. Referred to Rules
  5. In Messages
  6. CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0
  7. Read 3rd time
  8. Added to Third Reading Calendar
  9. Placed on 3rd reading
  10. Read 2nd time
  11. Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/23/2025)
  12. Added to Second Reading Calendar

Showing 12 most recent of 35 actions. Full history

Sources

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