---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community Association Assessment Notices"
description: "Community Association Assessment Notices; Requiring condominium associations to maintain specified affirmative acknowledgments as official records of the association; revising timeframes for foreclosure judgments; requiring condominium associations to deliver certain invoices for assessments or statements of account to unit owners in a specified manner; requiring cooperative associations to maintain specified affirmative acknowledgments as official records of the association, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Florida SB 56 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["real and personal property"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-91"
primary_sponsors: ["Rodriguez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-05"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cae998da-c5a7-4a6a-953c-dd21810f18a8"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/56/ByCategory"
source_hash: "e9baf7371df0a81207949a12d9b91c9b3f27c2a96566219f359d6e1f20893ab5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 56 (2021) — Community Association Assessment Notices

Community Association Assessment Notices; Requiring condominium associations to maintain specified affirmative acknowledgments as official records of the association; revising timeframes for foreclosure judgments; requiring condominium associations to deliver certain invoices for assessments or statements of account to unit owners in a specified manner; requiring cooperative associations to maintain specified affirmative acknowledgments as official records of the association, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-91.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 56 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/56/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 56 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/56/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 56 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/56/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 56 e1** (engrossed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/56/BillText/e1/HTML)
5. **S 56 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/56/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rodriguez — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-05** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Regulated Industries; Community Affairs; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** On Committee agenda-- Regulated Industries, 01/26/21, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-01-26** Favorable by Regulated Industries; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-26** Now in Community Affairs
- **2021-02-26** On Committee agenda-- Community Affairs, 03/03/21, 9:30 am, 37 Senate Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-03** CS by Community Affairs; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-04** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-05** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-08** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/11/21, 8:15 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-10** CS by Community Affairs read 1st time
- **2021-03-11** CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
- **2021-03-12** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2021-03-15** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-15** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/18/21
- **2021-03-16** CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
- **2021-03-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** Amendment(s) adopted (236280, 327230, 755118)
- **2021-03-18** Ordered engrossed
- **2021-03-18** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-25** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Immediately certified
- **2021-03-25** In Messages
- **2021-04-26** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-26** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/27/2021)
- **2021-04-26** 1st Reading (Engrossed 1)
- **2021-04-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-27** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-28** CS passed; YEAS 114, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-28** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-28** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-17** Chapter No. 2021-91, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 630 (Ch. 2021-99)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cae998da-c5a7-4a6a-953c-dd21810f18a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).