● Condominiums and cooperatives require association boards to adopt the annual budget at least 14 days before the start of the fiscal year. ● Failing to provide official records is a misdemeanor. ● Condominium director education: Four hours of training that includes instruction on milestone inspections, SIRS, elections, record keeping, financial literacy and transparency, levying fines, and meeting requirements.
Directors to annually complete at least one hour of continuing education about recent changes to the condominium laws and rules during the past year. As we work through the legal updates for 2024 and 2025, you will see that several of the changes above were revisited.
PART 3: LAWS PASSED IN 2025 - IMPACT ON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS, LICENSED CAMS, AND CAM FIRMS Florida Statutes [Chapter 2025-6, SB 42, Effective August 15, 2025] The act relating to a number of the Florida Statutes by amending, reenacting, repealing, and deleting provisions that have expired, become obsolete, had their effect, served their purpose, or been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaced incorrect cross-references and citations; corrected Administrative Procedures [Chapter 2025-189, SB 108, Effective July 1, 2025] The bill amends the Administrative Procedure Act’s rule making process to provide for additional public input and transparency. The bill also mandates that an agency conduct a review of all of its existing rules over the next five years; requires a review during the fifth year of each new rule adopted after July 1, 2025; requires an agency to file a notice of rule development within 30 days of legislation mandating rule making, and to file a notice of proposed rule within 180 days thereafter. The bill also requires at least seven days between the publications of a notice of rule development and a notice of proposed rule; requires any material incorporated by reference to be published with the notice of proposed rule; and requires that the that provides authority to adopt the rule. The bill also requires an agency to withdraw a rule that was not ratified by the legislature within one regular legislative session after its referral to the body, and the bill requires each agency to publish specific licensing data in its annual agency regulatory plan. Professional Licensing Education in Correctional Facilities [Chapter 2025-68, SB 472, Effective July 1, 2025] grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removed inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes; and improved the clarity of the statutes and facilitated their correct interpretation. full text of emergency rules be published in the Florida Administrative Code. The bill provides for additional public input in the statement of estimated regulatory cost (SERC.) The bill supplements the agency evaluation of transactional costs and market impacts in its creation of a SERC. The bill prohibits the sunset or repeal of a rule by its own terms, unless specifically provided for in the underlying statute
The bill amends the Correctional Education Program to require the Department of Corrections (DOC) to design and implement a plan to ensure that inmates who successfully complete classes that meet the necessary curriculum for professional licensure receive credit towards the applicable
Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) licensure requirements. The DOC must coordinate with the relevant professional boards under the DBPR, or the DBPR, when there is no board, to develop such a plan.
Florida Statutes: Timeshare Management Firms [Chapter 2025-142, HB 897, Effective July 1, 2025] F.S. 721 and 468: The amendments made to timeshare management firms affect F.S. 721 (Vacation and
provides goods or services through a parent, affiliate, or subsidiary of the timeshare management firm, the fact that a related party is providing goods or services must be disclosed annually to the members of that owners’ association using certain methods. Notwithstanding F.S. 718, the board of administration of a timeshare condominium is required to meet only once each year , unless additional board meetings are called pursuant to a timeshare instrument. If a timeshare management firm or an owners’ association provides goods or services through a parent, affiliate, or subsidiary of the timeshare management firm, the fact that a related party is providing goods or services must be disclosed annually to the members of that owners’ association. A timeshare management firm and any individual licensed under part VIII of chapter 468 employed by the timeshare management firm are governed by this section and s. 468.438.
Timeshare Plans), F.S. 468 (Miscellaneous Professions and Occupations), Part VIII (Community Association Management). The bill exempts CAMs and CAM firms from certain requirements relating to conflicts of interest if the CAM or CAM firm manages a timeshare plan and provides certain disclosures relating to a conflict of interest. The bill specifies that timeshare management firms and licensed CAMs who are employed by a timeshare management firm are governed by certain provisions in the Vacation Plan and Timesharing Act. Additionally, the bill requires timeshare management firms and licensed CAMs that are employed by a timeshare management firm to discharge their duties in good faith and exempts such firms and licensed CAMs from certain liability for monetary damages. The bill requires the board of administration of a timeshare condominium to meet only once a year but does not prohibit additional board meetings from being called. The bill requires that if a timeshare management firm or an owners’ association
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