SEE LATEST
SPONSORED LEGISLATION
H1021 - Community Associations
State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee, Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee, Commerce Committee
Last updated 3 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Provides requirements & penalties for community association managers & management firms relating to conflicts of interest; revises & provides provisions relating to condominium & cooperative associations, including milestone inspections, reporting requirements, financial reports, unit owner & board meetings, director education, criminal activity & penalties, official records, legal actions, electronic voting, & notices; requires Division of Florida Condominiums, Time Shares, & Mobile Homes to submit report to Governor & Legislature & create database.
STATUS
Passed
H1029 - My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program
Commerce Committee, State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee, Insurance And Banking Subcommittee
Last updated 5 months ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Establishes My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program within DFS; provides requirements for DFS, wind certification entities, hurricane mitigation inspectors & inspections, inspection & grant applications, mitigation grant eligibility, grant matching & maximum grant amounts, mitigation projects & use of grant funds, contracts, & annual report.
STATUS
Passed
H7045 - OGSR/Department of the Lottery
Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee, Juan Carlos Porras
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption from public record requirements relating to security of certain technologies, processes, & practices; removes scheduled repeal of exemptions relating to information about lottery games, personal identifying information of retailers & vendors for purposes of background checks, & certain financial information held by DOL.
STATUS
Introduced
H1387 - Adult Day Care Centers
David Silvers, Select Committee on Health Innovation, Alejandro Rizo
Last updated 7 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes adult day care centers holding contracts with Medicaid managed care plans to provide nonemergency transportation services for their clients; provides reimbursement rates for such services; authorizes requests for waiver of continuing education requirements; provides continuing education requirements for adult date care center operators; provides required subject areas for such continuing education courses; provides compliance with continuing education requirements is condition precedent to issuance, continuation, reinstatement, & renewal of adult day care center licenses.
STATUS
Failed
H0437 - Anchoring Limitation Areas
Infrastructure Strategies Committee, Agriculture, Conservation & Resiliency Subcommittee, Juan Carlos Porras
Last updated 4 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Revises anchoring limitation areas in certain sections of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County; revises documentation & evidence criteria for proving location of vessel within anchoring limitation area.
STATUS
Passed
H0595 - Homeowners' Associations Database
Juan Carlos Porras, Vicki Lopez, Alina Garcia
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requires DBPR to establish searchable database by specified date which contains specified information regarding each homeowners' association in state; requires homeowners' association to notify department of any changes to information listed in database.
STATUS
Failed
H1081 - Tourist Development
Juan Carlos Porras, Alina Garcia
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requires certain counties to use revenue received from tourist development tax in specified manner; requires that charter county convention development moneys be distributed to certain entities for specified purposes; deletes specified notification requirement.
STATUS
Failed
H1243 - Homeowners' Associations
Judiciary, Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee, Juan Carlos Porras
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Provides requirements for community association managers & firms; provides & revises requirements for association's official records; requires association to assist in law enforcement investigation; requires associations to prepare audited financial statements; prohibits use of certain debit cards; revises requirements for director education; provides criminal penalties for actions by officer, director, or manager of association; requires standards be applied & enforced reasonably & equitably; requires written notice to parcel owners; authorizes consent to online voting electronically.
STATUS
Failed
H1229 - Termination of Easements and Related Rights or Interests for Affordable Housing Development
Civil Justice Subcommittee, Juan Carlos Porras, Christopher Benjamin
Last updated 7 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requires local assistance plans to authorize termination of easements or rights, interests, or servitudes in nature of easements for use of or access to lake & its upland banks in specified circumstances to develop affordable housing; provides termination method; requires recording of specified notice in public records; requires recording of specified final orders & instruments in public records.
STATUS
Failed
H7047 - OGSR/Utility Owned or Operated by a Unit of Local Government
Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee, Juan Carlos Porras
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Extends date of scheduled repeal of public records exemptions for certain information related to security of certain technology, processes, practices, information technology systems, & industrial control technology systems; removes scheduled repeal of public records exemption for certain customer meter-derived data & billing information; extends date of scheduled repeal of exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings held by utility owned or operated by unit of local government that would reveal certain information.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Florida district HD-119
COMMITTEES
Florida House
BIRTH
--
ABOUT
Juan Carlos Porras was born and raised in Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a degree in government in 2003. After college, Juan worked in the Texas House of Representatives before going to work for a public affairs firm. In 2014, he ran for Travis County Judge and narrowly lost in the Democratic primary. He works as a senior account executive at a marketing communications firm and lives in Austin with his wife and two daughters. Juan serves on the board of the Workers Defense Project, which advocates for construction workers.read less
OFFICES HELD
Florida House from Florida
NEXT ELECTION
