{"id":42805,"date":"2024-03-11T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=42805"},"modified":"2024-03-11T18:56:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:56:42","slug":"bill-requiring-florida-hoas-to-provide-residents-with-its-rules-unanimously-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/03\/11\/bill-requiring-florida-hoas-to-provide-residents-with-its-rules-unanimously-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill requiring Florida HOAs to provide residents with its rules unanimously passed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The state House and Senate have each unanimously approved a House Bill 1203<\/a> related<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislation would require HOAs in the state to give each resident its rules and covenants and force them to let each person know of any updates to those documents.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Amidst the ponds and newly constructed homes, Jill Hagler, the president of the Willow Bend Homeowners\u2019 Association of Manatee County, loves walking around her neighborhood in Parrish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud that we\u2019ve made a lot of progress since construction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She bought her home with her husband in the Willow Bend community during the pandemic while still living in the Miami area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe actually bought thinking that, that was going to be our future retirement home,\u201d Hagler said. \u201cAnd things changed and now we live here full time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After spending some time in her new community, she wanted to get more involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, Hagler ran to be president of HOA and won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just have a real passion and I care about our neighborhood,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than sitting on the sidelines, she\u2019s now forming pool committees, landscaping committees and proactively working to improve her neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a new community and so we\u2019re all here coming together, wanting to have the most beautiful neighborhood that we can have,\u201d Hagler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says in order to do that, there needs to be clear communication and transparency in Willow Bend\u2019s HOA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when she learned about the bill approved by the state legislature requiring HOAs to give every resident its covenants and rules, or CCR\u2019s; she says they\u2019re already doing that under her watch in Willow Bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur CCRs are already on the portal,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve been doing a lot of education with neighbors and how to access, how to create an account, how to opt in for emails.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she says that isn\u2019t necessarily done by every HOA in Florida, so putting something like this on the books will help other neighborhoods in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an educational process,\u201d said Hagler. \u201cIt\u2019s an educational process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, there are about 270 residents in Willow Bend and nearly 50,000 HOAs in the state, which is the second most in the country behind California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, having things like pools, ponds and trees is what residents appreciate but, to Hagler, perhaps the best thing for places like Willow Bend is that dedication to transparency and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After unanimous approval by both the House and Senate, the bill now awaits the governor\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it\u2019s signed, it would go into effect on July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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