Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 362
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/19/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Osgood (JU)) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 62 - 105
    4  and insert:
    5         (c) “Reusable tenant screening report” means a report that:
    6         1. Includes all of the following:
    7         a. The applicant’s full name.
    8         b. The applicant’s contact information, including mailing
    9  address, e-mail address, and telephone number.
   10         c. Verification of the applicant’s employment.
   11         d. The applicant’s last known address.
   12         e. The results of an eviction history check in a manner and
   13  for a period of time consistent with applicable law related to
   14  the consideration of eviction history in housing.
   15         f. The date through which the information contained in the
   16  report is current.
   17         g. The applicant's consumer report.
   18         h. The date through which the information is current.
   19         2.a. Is prepared within the previous 30 days by a consumer
   20  reporting agency at the request and expense of an applicant.
   21         b. Is made directly available to a landlord for use in the
   22  rental application process or is provided through a third-party
   23  website that regularly engages in the business of providing a
   24  reusable tenant screening report and complies with all state and
   25  federal laws pertaining to use and disclosure of information
   26  contained in a consumer report by a consumer reporting agency.
   27         c. Is available to the landlord at no cost to access or
   28  use.
   29         (2) A landlord may accept reusable tenant screening reports
   30  and may require an applicant to state that there has not been a
   31  material change to the information in the reusable tenant
   32  screening report.
   33         (3) If an applicant provides a reusable tenant screening
   34  report to a landlord who accepts such reports, the landlord may
   35  not charge the applicant a fee to access the report or an
   36  application screening fee.
   37         (4) This section does not:
   38         (a) Affect any other applicable law related to the
   39  consideration of criminal history information in housing,
   40  including, but not limited to, local ordinances governing the
   41  information that landlords may review and consider when
   42  determining to whom they will rent; or
   43         (b) Require a landlord to accept reusable tenant screening
   44  reports.
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   46  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   47  And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete lines 5 - 10
   49  and insert:
   50         and require a specified statement; prohibiting a
   51         landlord from charging certain fees to an applicant
   52         using a reusable tenant screening report; providing
   53         construction; providing an effective date.