TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a invoice that may require condominium landlords to conduct background checks on workers, a response to the September homicide of a Valencia College pupil.
With the signature, DeSantis completed taking motion on all the payments handed throughout the 2022 legislative session.
Under the brand new regulation, legal and sexual-offender background checks can be required for apartment-complex workers.
Also, tenants must be given 24 hours’ discover earlier than staff can enter residences.
The measure (SB 898), referred to as “Miya’s Law,” was crafted after the dying of 19-year-old Miya Marcano, who was discovered useless per week after she went lacking from her Orlando condominium.
The suspected killer, who later dedicated suicide, labored as a upkeep employee at Marcano’s condominium complicated.
According to investigators, he used a grasp key fob to enter Marcano’s condominium the day she went lacking.
“By signing this legislation, we are making it safer to live in a rental unit and giving renters more peace of mind in their home,” DeSantis mentioned in a ready assertion.
In March, the House and Senate unanimously handed the measure, which was sponsored by Sen. Linda Stewart, D-Orlando, Rep. Robin Bartleman, D-Weston, and Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood.
“Although this legislation will not bring Miya back, it will help save lives and bring a greater sense of security to college students moving into their first apartment, seniors residing in apartment communities, and all the 2 million renters in Florida,” Bartleman mentioned in a press release.
The measure additionally will ban motels and accommodations from charging hourly room charges as a option to attempt to forestall intercourse trafficking.
