CALL ALERT: DeSantis Must Veto SB 360 – Proposed Law Contradicts New Safety Standards and Places Financial Burden on Homeowners

Last year, the Florida Legislature passed SB 4-D with the stated purpose of safeguarding the millions of Floridians living in older multifamily buildings. Known as the Condo Safety Law, SB 4-D requires periodic engineering inspections for buildings three stories and higher and mandates that associations reserve funds to pay for ongoing maintenance and repair projects. How then, did the Florida Legislature this Session pass SB 360, a bill which extinguishes homeowner rights and destroys developer/contractor accountability for the work they perform? Certainly our legislators must understand that thousands of Floridians are currently struggling to pay massive special assessments to fund mandated maintenance and repair projects? Why would those same legislators determine that Floridians should not be able to receive the full value from those multimillion-dollar projects? Hopefully, Governor DeSantis will understand that SB 360 undermines both the physical and fiscal security of millions of Floridians.