HB 511 — Insulation Products

F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S HBCS/HB 511 2020 A bill to be entitled An act relating to insulation products;

specifyingproviding thatdefinitions; a person who takes certain actions relating to interior building envelope insulation products without having a certain test report is subject to the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act;

specifying that a person who takes certain actions relating to interior building envelope insulation products for residential dwellings without having a certain test report is subject to the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act;

providing that a product evaluation report may not be provided in lieu of the test report;

553.843 Interior building envelope insulation products.— Any(1) personFor whopurposes advertises, sells, offers, provides, distributes, or markets a product as interior building envelope insulation without a valid ASTM test report, which also complies with the corresponding ASTM standard for the product, from a commission- approved testing laboratory indicating that the product complies with the Florida Building Code is subject to the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act under part II of chapterthis 501,section, brought by the enforcingterm: authority as defined in s.

501.203.(a) "Manufacture" has the same meaning as in s.

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(b) "Residential dwelling" includes one-family, two- family, and three-family residences;

townhomes;

residential condominiums;

residential cooperatives;

apartments;

residential manufactured buildings;

residential modular buildings;

residential factory buildings;

and mobile homes.

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hb0511-00hb0511-01-c1 F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S HBCS/HB 511 2020 must(2) beAny person who manufacturers a product that is advertised, sold, offered, provided, upondistributed, request,or tomarketed theas localinterior building official.envelope insulation for residential dwellings, not including pipe insulation or duct insulation, without a valid test report from a commission-approved testing laboratory indicating that the product complies with the Florida Building Code and the ASTM International standard for the product as provided by the Federal Trade Commission regulations in 16 C.F.R.

ss.

460.1 et seq., is subject to the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act under part II of chapter 501, if brought by the enforcing authority as defined in s.

501.203.

The test report for interior building envelope insulation products for residential dwellings must be provided, upon request, to a local building official.

A product evaluation report may not be provided in lieu of the test report.

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