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Feb. 28, 2025 | Legislative Reporter The 2025 Legislative Session convenes next Tuesday, March 4 and is scheduled to end on May 2. Note that today, Feb. 28, is the bill draft filing deadline for both the House and Senate. As a result, over 640 bills were filed over the past seven days. The Bill Tracking Report, as of Feb. 28, can be viewed here. Since the Feb. 21 Reporter, over 60 bills have been added to the Bill Tracking Report, including 12 that amend the homestead exemption or tax assessment process alone. Please review the Bill Tracking Report to see the filed bills that APA Florida is tracking and their status. Note that if you click on the bill number, you will be linked to more information about the bill. If you would like any bills added to this report or would like more information about a specific bill, please contact Stefanie Svisco at ssvisco@floridaplanning.org. Since the last Legislative Reporter, below are some of the bills of interest filed: HB 923 (Rep. V. Lopez) reforms affordable housing tax exemptions and eligibility while introducing administrative and tax credit provisions targeted at housing development and rehabilitation. HB 943 (Rep. V. Lopez) is a 67-page bill which makes many changes related to land use and development, some of which do the following: • amend s.125.0155 and s.166.04151 related to affordable housing, some of which would; • require local government to approve the development of affordable housing by a religious institution if certain criteria are met; • provide that, notwithstanding any other law, local ordinance, or regulation to the contrary, including any local moratorium established after March 29, 2023, a county or municipality must authorize multifamily and mixeduse residential as allowable uses on any site owned by the county, a district school board, a religious institution as defined in s.170.201(2), and in any area zoned for commercial, industrial, or mixed use, any planned unit development permitted for commercial, industrial, or mixed use, or any zoning district not zoned solely for use as a single-family home or duplex, if at least 40 percent of the residential units in a proposed multifamily or
Feb. 28, 2025 | Legislative Reporter
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