Republican Rep. Fabián Basabe is warning Miami Beach officials to align the city’s ordinances on homelessness with a 2024 state law or risk funding and legal action.

He contends that the local rules don’t go far enough to comport with state strictures. At least two Miami Beach officials, including the author of the city’s 2023 homeless ordinances, said its rules go even further.

In a strongly worded letter Friday to Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner and Commissioners, Basabe warned that the city’s ordinances on public camping, sleeping and protest-related obstructions violated state law.

He said the city must repeal or revise its rules to comply with the 2024 law ( HB 1365 ), which imposed a uniform statewide ban on public camping and sleeping unless in designated areas certif

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