Florida Senate Bill 854 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on April 30 2010 - 100% progression
Action: 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires lenders to notify tenants or lessees of potential foreclosure or short-sale actions against the rental property. Requires the lenders to provide tenants or lessees a first right of refusal to purchase the property at fair market value. Specifies lender liability for certain costs for failure to comply with certain notice requirements. Specifies time restrictions on tenants or lessees bringing actions for damages, etc.

Rental Property Foreclosure or Short-sale Actions [SPSC]

Sen. Don Gaetz [R]

Sen. Eleanor Sobel [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-04-30		Died in Committee on Judiciary
2010-03-02		Introduced, referred to Judiciary; Banking and Insurance -SJ 00061
2010-01-14		Referred to Judiciary; Banking and Insurance
2009-12-07		Filed

H0125 (Similar To) 2010-03-02 - Introduced, referred to Civil Justice & Courts Policy (CCJP); Insurance, Business, & Financial Affairs Policy (GGPC); Policy Council; Criminal & Civil Justice Policy Council -HJ 00019; On Committee agenda-- Civil Justice & Courts Policy (CCJP), 01/12/10, 10:00 am, Reed Hall --Temporarily deferred; On Committee agenda-- Civil Justice & Courts Policy (CCJP), 03/01/10, 2:15 pm, Reed Hall; Unfavorable by Civil Justice & Courts Policy (CCJP), laid on Table; YEAS 2 NAYS 9 -HJ 00207

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/index.cfm?Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&Tab=session&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=0854&Chamber=Senate&Year=2010
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0854.html&Directory=session/2010/Senate/bills/billtext/html/