Powers of Neighborhood Improvement Districts

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details about the bill's status after it died in committee, so its current legal standing is uncertain.

Powers for Neighborhood Improvement Districts

This bill allows neighborhood improvement districts to plan and finance structural safety or building compliance improvements if approved by residents or an advisory council.

What This Bill Does

• Gives neighborhood improvement districts the ability to plan, finance, or complete structural safety or building compliance improvements.
• Requires that any such projects be approved either by a majority vote of district residents or by an established advisory council.
• Specifies that improvements can include those required under state or local recertification programs.

Who It Names or Affects

• Neighborhood improvement districts
• Residents in neighborhoods with neighborhood improvement districts

Terms To Know

structural safety improvements

Work done to make buildings safer, like fixing weak parts or adding fire protection.

building compliance

Making sure that buildings follow local and state rules about how they should be built and maintained.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill did not pass the final stages of approval in the legislature.
• It is unclear which specific neighborhoods or districts will use this power.

Official Summary Text

Powers of Neighborhood Improvement Districts; Authorizing a neighborhood improvement district to plan, finance, or complete structural safety or building compliance improvements if approved by a majority vote of the district’s residents or by a certain advisory council, etc.

Current Bill Text

Florida Senate
-
2026

SB 734

By
Senator Osgood

32-01172-26 2026734__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to powers of neighborhood improvement
3 districts; amending s. 163.514, F.S.; authorizing a
4 neighborhood improvement district to plan, finance, or
5 complete structural safety or building compliance
6 improvements if approved by a majority vote of the
7 district’s residents or by a certain advisory council;
8 providing an effective date.
9
10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
11
12 Section 1. Present subsection (17) of section 163.514,
13 Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (18), and a new
14 subsection (17) is added to that section, to read:
15 163.514 Powers of neighborhood improvement districts.
16 Unless prohibited by ordinance, the board of any district shall
17 be empowered to:
18
(17)
P
lan, finance, or
complete
structural

safety or

19
building

compliance improvements, including
improvements

20
required under state or local structural

recertification

21
programs, if such improvements are approved by:

22
(a)

A majority vote of the district’s residents; or

23
(b)

An advisory council composed of residents of the

24
district, if such a council has been established by local

25
ordinance pursuant to
s.
163.506
.

26 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.