Sen. Jennifer Bradley

Homeowners’ Associations; Providing criminal penalties for directors or members of the board or association who fail to maintain and make available specified records; providing criminal penalties for persons who knowingly and intentionally deface, destroy, or fail to maintain specified accounting records; prohibiting an association or any architectural, construction improvement, or other such similar committee of an association from enforcing or adopting certain covenants, rules, or guidelines; prohibiting a homeowners’ association from restricting residents from installing certain vegetable gardens and clotheslines under certain circumstances, etc.

Pari-mutuel Licensing; Replacing the use of the term “racing dates” with “its current meet dates”; expanding the entitlement of pari-mutuel permitholders to lease any and all of their facilities to any holder of a valid pari-mutuel permit, etc.

Policy Cancellations and Nonrenewals by Property Insurers; Prohibiting insurers from canceling and nonrenewing, within certain timeframes, policies covering personal residential or commercial residential properties damaged by hurricanes or wind losses; providing that such prohibition applies to flood damages caused by hurricanes under certain circumstances; providing that an insurer may not cancel personal residential or commercial residential property insurance policies until certain repairs are made or a specified policy renewal expires; providing that certain claims for loss or damage will not be covered under an extended or renewed policy, etc.

Community Associations; Requiring community associations to return official records of an association within a specified period following termination of a contract; requiring community association managers and management firms to provide a written disclosure of certain conflicts of interest to the association’s board; providing criminal penalties for any officer, director, or manager of an association who knowingly solicits, offers to accept, or accepts a kickback; authorizing, rather than requiring, certain hurricane protection specifications; specifying when the cost of installation of hurricane protection is not a common expense, etc. APPROPRIATION: $7,416,269

Homeowners’ Associations; Providing requirements for certain community association managers and community association management firms; prohibiting the Regulatory Council of Community Association Managers from requiring more than a specified number of hours of continuing education annually for license renewal; requiring an association to maintain certain documents for a specified timeframe; prohibiting an association and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from using a debit card issued in the name of the association; providing criminal penalties for certain violations related to fraudulent voting activity related to association elections, etc.

Individual Wine Containers; Revising an exception to the maximum allowable capacity for an individual container of wine sold in this state, etc.

Flood Disclosure in the Sale of Real Property; Requiring a seller of residential real property to provide specified information to a prospective purchaser at or before the sales contract is executed; specifying how such information must be disclosed, etc.

Lights Displayed on Fire Department Vehicles; Authorizing that certain government-owned fire department vehicles may show or display blue lights under certain circumstances, etc.

Sovereign Immunity; Revising applicability; requiring that contracts with such firms must, to the extent permitted by law, provide indemnity to the department, etc.

Veterinary Practices; Designating the “Providing Equity in Telehealth Services Act”; authorizing licensed veterinarians to practice veterinary telehealth in accordance with specified criteria; specifying the powers of the Board of Veterinary Medicine related to the practice of telehealth; specifying the drugs that a veterinarian practicing telehealth may not provide unless specified conditions are met, etc.