Florida SB 652: Mobile Homes

Bill Text

652 
Mobile Homes 
2025-11-21T11:11:21Z 
Revising the general obligations of mobile home park owners; authorizing a unit of local government to adopt and enforce local codes or ordinances for specified purposes, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
S 
2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
GB 
General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 652 

 By Senator Bernard 

 24-00926-26 2026652__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to mobile homes; amending s. 723.022, 
 3 F.S.; revising the general obligations of mobile home 
 4 park owners; amending s. 723.023, F.S.; revising the 
 5 general obligations of mobile home owners; amending s. 
 6 723.024, F.S.; authorizing a unit of local government 
 7 to adopt and enforce local codes or ordinances for 
 8 specified purposes; making technical changes; 
 9 reenacting s. 723.0615(1), F.S., relating to 
 10 retaliatory conduct of a mobile home park owner, to 
 11 incorporate the amendment made to s. 723.022, F.S., in 
 12 a reference thereto; reenacting ss. 723.004(5) and 
 13 723.005, F.S., relating to preemption of subject 
 14 matter and regulation by the Division of Florida 
 15 Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes, 
 16 respectively, to incorporate the amendments made to 
 17 ss. 723.022 and 723.023, F.S., in references thereto; 
 18 providing an effective date. 
 19 
 20 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 21 
 22 Section 1. Subsections (6), (7), and (8) are added to 
 23 section 723.022, Florida Statutes, to read: 
 24 723.022 Mobile home park owner’s general obligations.—A 
 25 mobile home park owner shall at all times: 
 26 (6) Require mobile home owners to maintain a current mobile 
 27 home registration sticker on their mobile home at all times. 
 28 (7) Maintain up-to-date records regarding the owner of each 
 29 mobile home in the mobile home park and provide such records to 
 30 the county or municipal code enforcement entity upon request for 
 31 the purpose of enforcing a mobile home owner’s general 
 32 obligations pursuant to s. 723.023. 
 33 (8) Require each mobile home owner to maintain the mobile 
 34 home and its lot in accordance with all applicable building, 
 35 housing, fire, and health codes and require other persons on the 
 36 premises, with the mobile home owner’s consent, to comply with 
 37 such codes. 
 38 Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 723.023, Florida 
 39 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 40 723.023 Mobile home owner’s general obligations.—A mobile 
 41 home owner shall: 
 42 (1) At all times comply with all obligations imposed on 
 43 mobile home owners by applicable provisions of building, 
 44 housing, fire, and health codes, including compliance with all 
 45 building permits and construction requirements for construction 
 46 on the mobile home and lot. The home owner is responsible for 
 47 all fines imposed by the local government for noncompliance with 
 48 any local codes. 
 49 Section 3. Section 723.024, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 50 read: 
 51 723.024 Compliance by mobile home park owners and mobile 
 52 home owners.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter 
 53 or of any local law, ordinance, or code: 
 54 (1) If a unit of local government finds that a violation of 
 55 a local code or ordinance has occurred, the unit of local 
 56 government must shall cite the responsible party for the 
 57 violation and enforce the citation under its local code and 
 58 ordinance enforcement authority. A unit of local government may 
 59 adopt and enforce local codes or ordinances to ensure compliance 
 60 with ss. 723.022 and 723.023. 
 61 (2) A lien, penalty, fine, or other administrative or civil 
 62 proceeding may not be brought against a mobile home owner or 
 63 mobile home for any duty or responsibility of the mobile home 
 64 park owner under s. 723.022 or against a mobile home park owner 
 65 or mobile home park property for any duty or responsibility of 
 66 the mobile home owner under s. 723.023. 
 67 Section 4. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment 
 68 made by this act to section 723.022, Florida Statutes, in a 
 69 reference thereto, subsection (1) of section 723.0615, Florida 
 70 Statutes, is reenacted to read: 
 71 723.0615 Retaliatory conduct.— 
 72 (1) It is unlawful for a mobile home park owner to 
 73 discriminatorily increase a home owner’s rent or 
 74 discriminatorily decrease services to a home owner, or to bring 
 75 or threaten to bring an action for possession or other civil 
 76 action, primarily because the park owner is retaliating against 
 77 the home owner. In order for the home owner to raise the defense 
 78 of retaliatory conduct, the home owner must have acted in good 
 79 faith and not for any improper purposes, such as to harass or to 
 80 cause unnecessary delay or for frivolous purpose or needless 
 81 increase in the cost of litigation. Examples of conduct for 
 82 which the park owner may not retaliate include, but are not 
 83 limited to, s