Florida legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Florida H657: Community Associations
Status: Failed, March 13, 2026
Provides requirements for terminating dissolved HOA governing documents; provides requirements relating to easements of dissolved HOA; provides retroactive applicability; requires condominium & homeowners' associations to include specified statement in their governing documents or to hold meeting by date certain to vote to amend governing documents to include such statement; revises provisions relating to official records, electronic ballots, turnover inspection reports, & roofs; provides disclosure requirements for conflicts of interest; removes presuit mediation requirements; requires that specified arbitrators conduct arbitration proceedings; authorizes HOA's to be terminated; provides requirements for termination of HOA; provides duties & responsibilities of HOA board, & termination trustee; provides for distribution of HOA assets & paying lawful debts after termination; authorizes circuit court to create & administer community association court program; provides duties of chief judge; provides jurisdiction of community association court program; authorizes community association court program to take certain actions; requires each judicial circuit to submit to Legislature specified report annually by specified date; provides duties of OSCA; provides for funding & additional judges.
What the bill says
An act relating to community associations; creating s. 712.13, F.S.; providing legislative findings and intent; providing definitions; providing that the recorded governing documents of a dissolved homeowners' association are deemed terminated and unenforceable; requiring the clerk of the circuit court to indicate in the county records that a dissolved association's governing documents are terminated and inactive; requiring certain exclusive easements to revert to the servient estate upon dissolution of a homeowners' association under certain circumstances…
From the engrossed text, March 5, 2026:
A bill to be entitled An act relating to community associations; creating s. 712.13, F.S.; providing legislative findings and intent; providing definitions; providing that the recorded governing documents of a dissolved homeowners' association are deemed terminated and unenforceable; requiring the clerk of the circuit court to indicate in the county records that a dissolved association's governing documents are terminated and inactive; requiring certain exclusive easements to revert to the servient estate upon dissolution of a homeowners' association under certain circumstances; providing for the extinguishment of such easement; prohibiting an easement held by a dissolved association from becoming a public right-ofway, trail, or access route unless the easement is separately recorded for public use; providing construction; providing retroactive applicability; amending s. 718.103, F.S.; defining the term "habitable"; revising the definition of the term "video conference"; amending s. 718.104, F.S.; requiring condominium associations to include a specified statement in the governing documents or to hold a meeting by a date certain to vote to amend the governing documents to include such statement; words underlined are additions. hb657 -05-e1 FLORIDAHOUSEOFREPRESENTATIVES CS/CS/CS/CS/HB 657, Engrossed 1 2026 requiring a vote held at such meeting to be approved by a certain amount of the voting interests; amending s. 718.111, F.S.; requiring a condominium association to provide copies of certain records or otherwise make them available for …
Sponsors
- Porras, Juan (R, HD-119) · primary sponsor
- Alvarez, Jose (D, HD-046)
- Webster Barnaby (R, HD-027)
- Barnaby, Webster (R, HD-029)
- Conerly, Bill (R, HD-072)
- Daniels, Kimberly (D, HD-014)
- Kimberly Daniels (D, HD-014)
- Edmonds, Tae (D, HD-088)
- Gossett-Seidman, Peggy (R, HD-091)
- Johnson, Chad (R, HD-022)
- Johnson (R, 22)
- Mooney, Jim (R, HD-120)
Latest actions
- : Died in Rules
- : Received
- : Referred to Rules
- : In Messages
- : CS passed as amended; YEAS 108, NAYS 2
- : Read 3rd time
- : Added to Third Reading Calendar
- : Amendment 909233 adopted
- : Read 2nd time
- : 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 4)
Votes
- House: H 657 c4 (March 5, 2026): 108 yea, 2 nay, passed
- House: Commerce Committee (February 26, 2026): 23 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Commerce Committee (February 26, 2026): 23 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Budget Committee (February 16, 2026): 24 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Budget Committee (February 16, 2026): 24 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House: Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee (February 3, 2026): 14 yea, 1 nay, passed
Subjects: Rules
Common questions
- What is H657?
- H657 is a bill in the Florida Legislature (2026 Regular Session): Community Associations.
- What does H657 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to community associations; creating s. 712.13, F.S.; providing legislative findings and intent; providing definitions; providing that the recorded governing documents of a dissolved homeowners' association are deemed terminated and unenforceable; requiring the clerk of the circuit court to indicate in the county records that a dissolved association's governing documents are terminated and inactive; requiring certain exclusive easements to revert to the servient estate upon dissolution of a homeowners' association under certain circumstances…
- What is the status of H657?
- Failed as of March 13, 2026. Latest action: Died in Rules (March 13, 2026).
- Who sponsored H657?
- Porras, Juan (R, HD-119), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for H657?
- On the Florida Legislature website: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/657
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