The issue of retrofitting with an Engineered Life Safety System (ELSS) impacts older Florida high-rises (buildings constructed in 1992 or earlier that are 75 feet or higher). However, the issues discussed in today’s CALL Alert are instructive for all types of community associations when an operational issue in a community hinges on legislative relief. When […]
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2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for April 08, 2019
HB 1153 (DuBose) and its companion bill SB 1270 (Farmer) seek to amend Section 501.172, F.S. to create the Florida Biometric Information Privacy Act. A growing number of Florida associations use electronic means to keep fingerprints and other biometric information on file when guests and vendors enter the community. Biometric information can include a retina […]
Read More2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for March 26, 2019
This will be an active week for many of the bills CALL has been tracking for the past several weeks. Below is a summary of some of the House and Senate Committees that will be meeting this week and the community association-related bills those committee members will be considering. House On March 25th, the Civil […]
Read More2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for March 11, 2019
Today’s alert focuses on a bill that has some folks cheering and others cringing. HB 1259 (Fernandez-D-114) primarily addresses the issues of illegal kickbacks and fraudulent voting activity in condominiums, but goes a step too far in terms of criminalizing failed document inspection requests. This bill has the support of the Speaker of the House, […]
Read More2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for March 4, 2019
Florida’s 2019 Legislative Session commences Tuesday, March 5th. We have already read and analyzed more than two dozen bills and reached out to various bill sponsors to discuss our support on some bills and concern on others. Last week SB 1442 (Torres) was filed as the Senate companion to HB 155 (Cortes). These bills, known […]
Read More2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for February 26, 2019
Dear CALL Members, March 5th and the start of the 60-day, 2019 Regular Legislative Session in Florida is right around the corner. We are tracking several bills on behalf of communities throughout Florida and there is a lot of work to do to ensure that the most helpful bills pass. In order to make this […]
Read More2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for February 11, 2019
Today’s CALL Alert again brings good news and bad news. As for the good news, we have a legislative proposal that most of our CALL members have been hoping to see for quite some time. HB 721 sponsored by Representative Sam Killebrew (R-Polk County) answers the call of Floridians in pet-restricted and/or pet-regulated private residential […]
Read More2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for February 7, 2019
Let’s start with the bad. We have our first truly ill-advised piece of legislation in the form of SB 610 filed on January 30th by Senator Jason Pizzo (D, Miami-Dade). There is a lot of territory to cover with this bill and it currently has no committee assignments. We will delve into further aspects of this bill […]
Read More2019 Florida Legislative Session – CALL Alert for January 30, 2019
The 2019 Florida Legislative Session will start on March 5th at noon. As we’ve seen in years past, we can expect several Association bills to make their way through the committee process before ultimately being condensed into one or two main bills by the time Session is expected to end on May 3rd. We already […]
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