{"id":210743,"date":"2026-02-06T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:05:07","slug":"florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Senate committees advance bills on homestead leasehold exemptions and DHSMV privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy\/\">Florida Senate committees advance bills on homestead leasehold exemptions and DHSMV privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy\/\">https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-06 13:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"flvoicenews.com\">flvoicenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 Two Senate bills aimed at clarifying property tax exemptions for long-term lessees and shielding driver email addresses from public records requests advanced through key committees Thursday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Homestead tax savings for residents with long-term leases<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>What it does: <\/strong>SB 110 clarifies that residents who hold a leasehold interest of 98 years or more in a residential or condominium parcel are eligible for the homestead tax exemption, even if their lease includes a provision that terminates the agreement upon their death.<\/p>\n<p>Key details of the bill include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Title and ownership status<\/strong>: The bill provides that qualifying lessees are considered to have legal, beneficial, and equitable title to the property for the purpose of claiming homestead exemptions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clarifying intent<\/strong>: The legislation is described as remedial and clarifying, designed to address potential ambiguities regarding long-term leases and homestead eligibility.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Committee refinements<\/strong>: A committee substitute was added to specify that leases containing \u201ctermination upon death\u201d clauses remain valid for exemption purposes under current law.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Statutes affected<\/strong>: The measure amends Section 196.041 of the Florida Statutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The sponsors: <\/strong>The bill is sponsored by Democratic Sen. Kristen Arrington. A similar bill, HB 227, is sponsored by Republican Rep. Patt Maney in the House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next steps: <\/strong>The bill passed a Senate committee on Thursday with a 16-0 vote and has one remaining committee stop. The House bill also has one remaining committee stop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If passed, <\/strong>the bill is scheduled to take effect immediately upon becoming law.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>DHSMV customer email addresses from public records requests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>What it does: <\/strong>SB 490 would shield email addresses collected by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, or DHSMV, from public records requests.<\/p>\n<p>Key details of the bill include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Expanded public records exemption<\/strong>: The bill broadens the current exemption to include all&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Senate committees advance bills on homestead leasehold exemptions and DHSMV privacy https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/florida-senate-committees-advance-bills-on-homestead-leasehold-exemptions-and-dhsmv-privacy\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/tally2.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210745,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210743\/revisions\/210745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}