Homeowners’ Associations; Creating the Office of the Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman within the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; specifying the powers and duties of the ombudsman; providing the duties of the division relating to the development, construction, sale, lease, ownership, operation, and management of residential parcels and complaints; authorizing the division to issue citations and adopt rules; requiring the division to maintain a toll-free telephone number accessible to parcel owners, etc.
Heated Tobacco Products; Revising the definition of the term “cigarette”; revising the definition of the term “tobacco products”; defining the term “heated tobacco product”, etc.
Medicaid Coverage of Blood Pressure Monitoring Devices; Defining the terms “blood pressure cuff” and “validated at-home blood pressure monitor”; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, subject to the availability of funds and certain limitations and directions, to provide coverage for validated at-home blood pressure monitors and blood pressure cuffs for certain Medicaid recipients; providing construction; providing requirements for Medicaid recipients to continue receiving coverage for their validated at-home blood pressure monitors and blood pressure cuffs, etc.
Music Therapy; Creating the Music Therapy Advisory Committee within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; authorizing the committee to facilitate the development of certain materials and act as a facilitator of statewide dissemination of information between certain entities; requiring the department to issue a license to practice as a professional music therapist to applicants meeting specified criteria; specifying collaboration requirements for licensees engaging in the practice of music therapy, etc.
Mobile Home Park Lot Tenancies; Revises provisions relating to mobile home park lot tenancies, including factors used to determine rent increases, proof required for lot rental increases, electronic billing or payment systems, changes in lot rental amount, termination of tenancy, payment of lot rental amount, & the Florida Mobile Home Relocation Corporation; revises powers & duties of Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, & Mobile Homes; authorizes persons to file complaint with DLA for certain reasons; provides DLA authority to enforce compliance with state law.
Protective Injunctions and Protection Orders; Requires respondent to surrender to local law enforcement agency all firearms, ammunition, & licenses to carry concealed weapon or firearm after issuance of final judgment on injunction for protection against domestic violence; provides for surrender & storage of firearms, ammunition, & licenses to carry concealed weapon or firearm after issuance of protective injunction; requires law enforcement agencies to develop certain policies & procedures; provides for return of firearms, ammunition, & licenses to carry concealed weapon or firearm when protective injunction is vacated, terminated, or otherwise rendered no longer affective; authorizes respondent to elect to transfer all firearms & ammunition surrendered or seized by law enforcement agency to another person; revises criminal penalty for second or subsequent violation of injunction for protection against domestic violence or foreign protection order.
Electric Vehicle Charging Taxation; Exempting certain electricity sold to owners or operators of an electric vehicle charging station from the sales and use tax; requiring owners or operators of electric vehicle charging stations to furnish a specified affidavit under certain circumstances; providing civil and criminal penalties; requiring the Department of Revenue to look solely to owners or operators for recovery of the tax under certain circumstances, etc.
Nursing Licensure; Revising information that the Board of Nursing must publish on its website with respect to approved nursing education programs; providing for provisional licensure of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses; establishing that provisional licensees may practice only under direct supervision of a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse, as applicable, etc.
Affordable Housing; Revises upwards length of time that certain rental units must remain affordable in order to qualify for specified zoning variance; requires certain incentives be used for construction of affordable housing; revises downward maximum median income used to determine eligibility for certain tax incentives; specifies that certain taxes do not apply to first-time homebuyers.
Rural Counties; Provides exemption from sales & use tax for industrial machinery & equipment used by wholesalers in fiscally constrained counties; prohibits state from purchasing certain land in fiscally constrained county; requires DEP to provide certain explanation to fiscally constrained county; increases amount of annual appropriation to Small County Road Assistance Program; authorizes specified amount from State Transportation Trust Fund to be used to fund Small County Outreach Program; requires AHCA to determine which providers in hospitals located in rural areas are essential Medicaid providers; creates Rural District Graduate Placement Incentive Pilot program within DOE; subject to legislative appropriation, requires DOE to provide certain bonus to school district or charter school located in fiscally constrained county; provides for program requirements & expiration; requires SBE to adopt rules. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate
Fees/Homeowners’ Associations; Requiring each homeowners’ association that operates more than two parcels to pay to the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes an annual fee for each residential parcel operated by the association; requiring that the association be assessed a specified penalty of the amount due if the fee is not paid by a specified date; providing that, until the amount due, plus any penalty, is paid, an association is deemed delinquent and does not have standing to maintain or defend any action in the courts of this state; requiring that all fees the division collects be deposited in the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund, etc.
HB 795 clarifies that specific inheritance transfers of homestead property do not count as a "change of ownership" for property tax assessment purposes in Florida. It directly affects homeowners who inherit homestead property under defined circumstances, such as transfers to surviving spouses, dependent family members, or when joint tenants with rights of survivorship inherit. The bill amends Florida Statute 193.155 to explicitly exclude these inheritance scenarios from triggering reassessment under homestead exemption rules. This ensures the property retains its existing tax assessment level without requiring a new homestead application. The provision takes effect upon approval of a related constitutional amendment.
