Florida SB 1706: Marriage and Family Therapists

Bill Text

1706 
My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program 
2026-02-20T10:08:20Z 
Revising eligibility requirements for participation in the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; requiring the Department of Financial Services to adopt rules to verify household income; specifying that condominium property with mixed-income occupancies is eligible to participate in the pilot program under certain circumstances; authorizing financial grants to be used by associations for a specified purpose; limiting the award of grant funds, etc. 
Committee Substitute 1 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for SB 1706 

 By the Committee on Appropriations; and Senator Pizzo 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the My Safe Florida Condominium 
 3 Pilot Program; amending s. 215.55871, F.S.; defining 
 4 the term “area median income”; deleting the definition 
 5 of the term “service area”; revising definitions; 
 6 revising eligibility requirements for participation in 
 7 the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; 
 8 requiring the Department of Financial Services to 
 9 adopt rules to verify household income; authorizing 
 10 the department to require periodic recertification; 
 11 specifying that condominium property with mixed-income 
 12 occupancies is eligible to participate in the pilot 
 13 program under certain circumstances; authorizing 
 14 financial grants to be used by associations for a 
 15 specified purpose; requiring that an application for a 
 16 mitigation grant include documentation to verify 
 17 household income; making clarifying changes; requiring 
 18 a hurricane mitigation inspector to verify the 
 19 possession of water intrusion mitigation devices; 
 20 limiting the award of grant funds; requiring an 
 21 association to complete a certain percentage of 
 22 opening protection improvements; providing an 
 23 effective date. 
 24 
 25 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 26 
 27 Section 1. Subsections (1), (2), and (5) of section 
 28 215.55871, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 
 29 215.55871 My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program.—There 
 30 is established within the Department of Financial Services the 
 31 My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program to be implemented 
 32 pursuant to appropriations. The department shall provide fiscal 
 33 accountability, contract management, and strategic leadership 
 34 for the pilot program, consistent with this section. This 
 35 section does not create an entitlement for associations or unit 
 36 owners or obligate the state in any way to fund the inspection 
 37 or retrofitting of condominiums in the state. Implementation of 
 38 this pilot program is subject to annual legislative 
 39 appropriations. It is the intent of the Legislature that the My 
 40 Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program provide licensed 
 41 inspectors to perform inspections for and grants to eligible 
 42 associations as funding allows. 
 43 (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 
 44 (a) “Area median income” means the median household income, 
 45 as published annually by the United States Department of Housing 
 46 and Urban Development, for the county in which the condominium 
 47 property is located. 
 48 (b)(a) “Association” has the same meaning as in s. 718.103. 
 49 (c)(b) “Association property” means property, real and 
 50 personal, which is owned or leased by, or is dedicated by a 
 51 recorded plat to, an association for the use and benefit of its 
 52 members and is located in the service area. 
 53 (d)(c) “Board of administration” has the same meaning as in 
 54 s. 718.103. 
 55 (e)(d) “Condominium” has the same meaning as in s. 718.103. 
 56 For purposes of this section, the term does not include detached 
 57 units on individual parcels of land. 
 58 (f)(e) “Condominium property” means the lands, leaseholds, 
 59 and personal property that are subjected to condominium 
 60 ownership, whether or not contiguous, and all improvements 
 61 thereon and all easements and rights appurtenant thereto 
 62 intended for use in connection with the condominium and are 
 63 located in the service area. 
 64 (g)(f) “Department” means the Department of Financial 
 65 Services. 
 66 (h)(g) “Property” means association property and 
 67 condominium property, as applicable, located in the service 
 68 area. 
 69 (h) “Service area” means the area of the state which is 15 
 70 miles inward of a coastline, as that term is defined in s. 
 71 376.031. 
 72 (i) “Unit” has the same meaning as in s. 718.103. 
 73 (j) “Unit owner” has the same meaning as in s. 718.103. 
 74 (2) PARTICIPATION.— 
 75 (a) Participation in the pilot program is limited to: 
 76 1. Condominium associations in which the structures or 
 77 buildings on the condominium property were constructed before 
 78 January 1, 2008. 
 79 2. Condominium associations in which at least 80 percent of 
 80 the occupied