Florida House Bill 229 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: Passed on July 1 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-07-01 - Chapter No. 2013-240
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Providing requirements relating to vesting of ownership in trustee; revises rights, liabilities, & duties of land trust beneficiaries; provides exclusion & applicability; revises provisions relating to land trust transfers of real property & vesting of ownership in trustee; prohibits operation of statute of uses & doctrine of merger to execute land trust or to vest trust property under certain conditions; provides conditions under which beneficial interest is deemed real property; authorizes certain beneficial ownership methods; provides for perfection of security documents; provides that trustee's legal & equitable title to trust property is separate & distinct from beneficiary's beneficial interest in land trust & trust property; prohibits lien, judgment, mortgage, security interest or other encumbrance against one interest from automatically attaching to another interest; provides that appointment of guardian ad litem is not necessary in certain foreclosure litigation affecting title to trust property of land trust; provides for determination of applicable law for certain trusts; provides applicability relating to UCC financing statements; provides requirements for recording effectiveness; revises & provides scope of Florida Trust Code.

Land Trusts

House Judiciary Committee

House Civil Justice Subcommittee

Sen. Jose Rodriguez [D]

2013-04-26 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#34 (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2013-04-24 - House - House: Third Reading RCS#207 (Y: 114 N: 1 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-07-01		Chapter No. 2013-240
2013-06-28		Approved by Governor
2013-06-17		Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
2013-04-29	House	Ordered enrolled
2013-04-26	Senate	CS passed; YEAS 34 NAYS 0
2013-04-26	Senate	Read 3rd time
2013-04-25	Senate	Placed on 3rd reading
2013-04-25	Senate	Read 2nd time
2013-04-25	Senate	Substituted for CS/SB 1172
2013-04-25	Senate	Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2013-04-25	Senate	Withdrawn from Judiciary; Banking and Insurance; Rules
2013-04-24	Senate	Received
2013-04-24	Senate	Referred to Judiciary; Banking and Insurance; Rules
2013-04-24	Senate	In Messages
2013-04-24	House	CS passed as amended; YEAS 114 NAYS 1
2013-04-24	House	Read 3rd time
2013-04-24	House	Amendment(s) adopted (506909)
2013-04-24	House	Read 2nd time
2013-04-22	House	Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/13
2013-03-25	House	Placed on Calendar
2013-03-22	House	CS/CS by Judiciary Committee read 1st time
2013-03-22	House	Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.19(c)
2013-03-20	House	CS/CS by- Judiciary Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0
2013-03-18	House	On Committee agenda-- Judiciary Committee, 03/20/13, 8:00 am, 404 HOB
2013-03-11	House	Now in Judiciary Committee
2013-03-06	House	Favorable by Insurance and Banking Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0
2013-03-05	House	CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee read 1st time
2013-03-05	House	Introduced
2013-03-04	House	On Committee agenda-- Insurance and Banking Subcommittee, 03/06/13, 1:00 pm, 404 HOB
2013-02-21	House	Now in Insurance and Banking Subcommittee
2013-02-19	House	Pending review of CS under Rule 7.19(c)
2013-02-13	House	CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
2013-02-06	House	On Committee agenda-- Civil Justice Subcommittee, 02/13/13, 2:00 pm, 404 HOB
2013-01-30	House	Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee; Insurance and Banking Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
2013-01-17	House	Filed

S1172 (Similar To) 2013-04-25 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 229 (Ch. 2013-240)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
689	071		Amended Code	See Bill Text
689	073		Amended Code	See Bill Text
736	0102		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/229
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/BillText/Filed/PDF
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/BillText/c1/PDF
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/BillText/c2/PDF
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/BillText/e1/PDF
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/BillText/er/PDF
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/Amendment/386203/PDF
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/Amendment/773317/PDF
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/Amendment/506909/PDF
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/FloorVotes/mE9caltz635w60Fd7wy9VBLcQPk%3D%7C14%2FPublic%2FVotes%2FBill%2F20130424%2FHouseVote%5Fh0229c2207%2EPDF
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/0229/FloorVotes/7PMwg44aAZ9cPfp%2FAjZbmhYjJzk%3D%7C14%2FPublic%2FVotes%2FBill%2F20130426%2FSenateVote%5Fh0229e1034%2EPDF