Florida 2025 Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill S1500 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/27/2025

 Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1500  By Senator Davis 5-01818-25 20251500__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to vacating premises after rental 3 agreement termination; amending s. 83.56, F.S.; 4 requiring landlords to provide certain tenants a 5 specified amount of time to vacate the premises after 6 delivery of a notice to terminate the rental agreement 7 before bringing a specified action; providing an 8 effective date. 9 10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 11 12 Section 1.Present subsection (6) of section 83.56, Florida 13 Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (7), and a new 14 subsection (6) is added to that section, to read: 15 83.56Termination of rental agreement. 16 (6)Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if the 17 landlord knows or reasonably should know that the tenant is 18 pregnant or there are children under 18 years of age living in 19 the dwelling unit, the landlord must provide the tenant at least 20 3 months after delivery of a written notice under subsection (2) 21 or subsection (3) to vacate the premises before bringing an 22 action for possession of the dwelling unit under s. 83.59. 23 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.