Florida rental housing laws

What it would do: Authorizes counties and eligible municipalities to provide lot rental assistance to mobile home owners for up to 6 months and requires them to develop strategies addressing mobile home park closures. Treats lot rental assistance as an approved home ownership activity and allows funds for mobile home rehabilitation and emergency repairs.

What it would do: Authorizes landlords to accept reusable tenant screening reports and prohibits charging fees to applicants using them. Requires local governments to adopt ordinances allowing accessory dwelling units in single-family areas by December 1, 2025, with specified restrictions.

What it would do: Requires landlords, sellers, condominium developers, cooperative developers, and mobile home park owners to disclose flood damage history and file claims to prospective tenants, purchasers, and lessees before executing rental or sales agreements, with tenants and lessees able to terminate if they suffer substantial loss from undisclosed flooding.

What it would do: Authorizes landlords and tenants to electronically deliver notices via email if both parties sign a specified addendum to the rental agreement, with provisions for revoking or updating email addresses and deeming notices delivered when sent.

What it would do: Prohibits landlords from terminating rental agreements or evicting tenants because the tenant or tenant's minor child is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking. Allows victims to terminate rental agreements with 30 days' notice and requires landlords to change locks within 24 hours upon request.

What it would do: Creates a framework allowing landlords to report tenant rent payment history to credit reporting agencies with written tenant consent, requires 30 days' notice, limits fees to $10 monthly or actual cost, and prohibits retaliation for opting out.

What it would do: Removes rent control prohibitions, creates community land bank programs for affordable housing, establishes home resiliency grading scales, creates tax credits for retail-to-residence conversions and affordable housing construction, prohibits coordinated rental pricing and corporate single-family home purchases, and strengthens insurance rate regulation.

What it would do: Revises mobile home park lot tenancy laws by prohibiting electronic-only payment systems and excessive data collection, requiring detailed disclosure of rent increase justifications, shortening nonpayment eviction notice from 10 to 5 days, allowing third parties to pay rent, and authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to enforce compliance.

What it would do: Prohibits rental agreements from imposing fees or surcharges during the 5-day rent payment period and from charging recurring fees for missed or late rent payments. Extends the nonpayment notice period from 3 days to 5 days before landlords may terminate rental agreements.

What it would do: Authorizes counties and municipalities to adopt and enforce local laws regarding mobile home park lot tenancies and cite violations to park or home owners. Revises obligations of mobile home park owners and owners, and allows local governments to enforce compliance and bring civil proceedings against responsible parties.

What it would do: Prohibits landlords from terminating rental agreements or evicting tenants because the tenant or tenant's minor child is a victim of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking. Allows victims to terminate rental agreements with 30 days' notice and requires landlords to change locks within 24 hours upon request.

What it would do: Creates a process allowing eviction defendants to seal court records and substitute their name with 'tenant' on the progress docket if the case was settled, judgment satisfied, or sufficient time has passed, except those evicted more than once. Courts cannot charge fees for such motions.

What it would do: Creates a statute authorizing landlords to report tenant rent payment history to credit reporting agencies with written tenant consent, requiring 30 days' notice, limiting fees to $10 monthly or actual cost, and prohibiting retaliation for opting out.

What it would do: Prohibits municipalities and counties from enacting rent control laws, establishes community land bank programs for affordable housing development, creates tax credits for retail-to-residence conversions and affordable housing construction, restricts corporate ownership of single-family homes, and prohibits algorithmic rental price coordination.

What it would do: Revises mobile home park owner obligations to require current registration stickers, maintain owner records, and enforce building codes. Clarifies mobile home owners must comply with all applicable codes and are responsible for fines, and prohibits liens or penalties against one party for the other's duties.

What it would do: Requires landlords and vacation rental licensees to install exit alarms (85 dB minimum) or self-closing doors on units within 150 feet of water bodies, and pool safety features on units with swimming pools, with criminal penalties for violations and exceptions for tenant-caused damage corrected within 45 days.

What it would do: Prohibits landlords of affordable housing units that received federal, state, or local funding or tax incentives from increasing base rent during a rental agreement term, effective for agreements of 13 months or less entered on or after July 1, 2027.

What it would do: Requires landlords of multi-unit dwellings to provide and maintain cooling equipment capable of maintaining indoor temperatures not exceeding 82 degrees Fahrenheit when outdoor heat index reaches 90 degrees, with repairs or replacement required within 3 business days of notice. Expands definitions of Class A air-conditioning and mechanical contractors to include pool heater replacement services.

What it would do: Creates the Department of Housing and Tenant Rights and substantially revises Florida's landlord-tenant laws, including requiring 60-day rent increase notice, prohibiting application fees, limiting security deposits to one month's rent, establishing eviction record sealing procedures, and creating community land bank programs for affordable housing development.

What it would do: Creates restrictions on landlords' inquiries into tenants' criminal records before making conditional offers, removes financial obligation requirements from voting rights restoration, automatically restores felony convicts' citizenship rights to the extent federal officials receive automatic restoration, and retroactively applies reduced penalties for hydrocodone, codeine, and oxycodone trafficking offenses committed before specified dates.

What it would do: Prohibits landlords of affordable housing units that received federal, state, or local funding or tax incentives from increasing rent during the rental agreement term, with exceptions for renewals and federal compliance requirements, applying to agreements of 13 months or less entered into on or after July 1, 2026.

What it would do: Authorizes landlords to accept reusable tenant screening reports prepared within 30 days by consumer reporting agencies and prohibits landlords from charging applicants fees to access such reports or application screening fees when provided.

What it would do: Creates a new statute allowing tenants who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking to terminate rental agreements immediately with written notice and documentation, prohibits landlords from evicting or retaliating against such tenants, and requires landlords to change locks within 24 hours upon request.

What it would do: Authorizes counties and eligible municipalities to provide lot rental assistance to mobile home owners up to 6 months' rent and requires them to develop strategies addressing mobile home park closures. Treats lot rental assistance as an approved home ownership activity and allows funds for mobile home rehabilitation and emergency repairs.

What it would do: Requires landlords who know or reasonably should know a tenant is pregnant or has children under 18 living in the unit to provide at least 3 months after written notice to vacate before filing for possession.