Bill Text: FL S1138 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Lodging Minimum-stay Requirements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-03-10 - Died in Regulated Industries [S1138 Detail]

Download: Florida-2018-S1138-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2018                                    SB 1138
       
       
        
       By Senator Steube
       
       
       
       
       
       23-01579A-18                                          20181138__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public lodging minimum-stay
    3         requirements; creating s. 509.093, F.S.; prohibiting
    4         hotels and motels from requiring minimum stays of
    5         greater than one night; authorizing the Division of
    6         Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business
    7         and Professional Regulation to adopt rules; providing
    8         an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 509.093, Florida Statutes, is created to
   13  read:
   14         509.093 Minimum-stay requirements for transient public
   15  lodging establishments prohibited.—
   16         (1) PROHIBITION.—Hotels and motels, as classified in s.
   17  509.242, may not require a minimum stay of greater than one
   18  night.
   19         (2) RULEMAKING.—The division may adopt rules to implement
   20  this section.
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.