Chapter 3: Legal Update 2025-2026 3 CE Hours
Expiration Date : January 21, 2028 Course overview This course provides students with statutes and administrative rules applicable to community associations and community association managers. Some laws directly impact condominiums, cooperatives, homeowners’ associations, and timeshares. While others may apply to related entities, such as management, flood disclosures, and fire prevention. Included are laws passed and administrative codes adopted during the 2025 legislative session. We will Learning objectives After completing this course, the learner will be able to: Understand the state legislature purpose and process. Recognize legal matters concerning community associations, CAMs, and community association firms.
review legislative changes from 2024 as they may impact those made in 2025. The course material includes a chart listing Florida laws to be covered in this course. The course text identifies changes with a line through words or phrases that were changed or deleted, and underlined to indicate information that was added by legislature.
Understand how rules are made. Understand amendments made to the statutes directly affecting community associations and agents, such as CAMs and CAM firms.
INTRODUCTION
directors, community association managers, and community association management firms. We will review 2024 and discuss some of what happens to make laws change. At the end of the course, you will be directed to complete a 10-question quiz. This course is divided into three parts: PART 1 : Legislative process: From an idea to a law. PART 2 : Laws passed in 2024: Review and reflect on the impact of laws enacted as of July 2024. PART 3 : Laws passed in 2025: Impact on community associations, licensed CAMs, and CAM firms.
Florida Legislation enacted a number of amendments to statutes affecting F.S. 718, 719, 721, 723, and 468 Part VIII. Additionally, there were laws amended and enacted regarding building and construction standards, Florida business corporations, dangerous dogs, lodging and food service establishments, fire prevention, notice between landlords and tenants, affordable housing, removal of unauthorized persons from commercial property, and flood disclosures. In the chart of legal updates provided at the end of this course, we draw your attention to several changes in 2024 that had an impact on associations, their boards of
PART 1: LEGISLATIVE PROCESS - FROM AN IDEA TO A LAW
Monday in January of each even-numbered year. There are other ways in which the Legislature may be convened as outlined in Article III, Section 2, of the Florida Constitution, including special sessions, which may be called either by the governor or by a joint proclamation issued by the Senate president and House speaker. The 2025 Regular Session was scheduled to convene on March 4, 2025, and end May 2, 2025, but was extended to June 5, 2025. The Regular Session for 2026 is scheduled to convene on January 13, 2026, to March 13, 2026. A bill goes through the same process in the second house as it did in the first. A bill can go back and forth between houses until a consensus is reached. Of course, the measure could fail at any point in the process. To follow a bill through the process see the end of the course or click the link for the PDF of How an Idea Becomes a Law.
The Florida Senate and the Florida House of Representatives together make up the Florida Legislature, a bicameral legislature. The Florida Legislature is one of three branches of government in Florida. The other two branches are the Executive and Judicial. The Senate is composed of 40 members, each elected by single-member districts across the state. The Florida Legislature meets in session every year for 60 consecutive days. A regular session of the legislature convenes on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March of each odd- numbered year, and on the second Tuesday after the first How an idea becomes a law Either house may originate any type of legislation; however, the process differs slightly between houses: ● A legislator sponsors a bill, which is referred to one or more committees related to the bill’s subject. ● The committee studies the bill and decides if it should be amended, passed, or failed. ● If passed in that committee, the bill moves to other committee of reference or to the full house. ● The full house then votes on the bill. ● If it passes in one house, it is sent to the other house for review.
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