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UPDATE OF IMPORTANT BILLS
By
Jan Bergemann
Published May 1, 2021
Today will be the last day
of the 2021 Legislative Session in Florida. All our Community
Association Priority Bills are ordered enrolled. But some of our
planned amendments didn’t make it. They are noted for next year
when the legislature has more time to deal with local bills and
will – hopefully – not have to deal with political nonsense
coming from Washington.
Some of the hotly debated
– especially in the media -- general politics bills are still on
the calendar, but will most likely voted upon favorably and will be
sent to the desk of Governor Ron DeSantis for his signature.
Here is the latest update
of the bills we followed as priority:
SB 56 -- Community Association Assessment Notices
House voted favorably
114:0, Senate voted favorably 39:0, Ordered Enrolled
SB 630 -- Community Associations
On 4/7/21 Senate voted
favorably 40:0; On 4/27/21 the House voted favorably 114:0; Bill
ordered enrolled
SB 996 -- Petition for Objection to Assessment
-- Substituted HB 649
Passed House and Senate
favorably; ordered enrolled
HB 1005/SB 1490
-- Investment of Condominium Association Funds
Died in Committees
HB 1: Combating Public Disorder
Voted favorably by House 76:39 and
Senate 23:17; Signed by Officers and presented to Governor;
Approved by Governor.
SB 76 -- Property Insurance
House (75:41) and Senate
(35:5) voted favorably; Bill
ordered engrossed, then enrolled.
SB 90 -- Election Administration
Senate voted favorably
23:17; House voted favorably as amended 77:40;
Ordered engrossed,
then enrolled.
SB 1028; SB 2012
-- Charter Schools, Promoting Equality of Athletic Opportunity
Passed House and Senate
favorably; ordered enrolled
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Jan Bergemann is president of Cyber Citizens For Justice,
Florida
's largest state-wide property owners' advocacy group.
CCFJ works on legislation to help owners living in
community
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associations. He moved to
Florida
in 1995 - hoping to retire. He moved into a HOA, where the
developer cheated the homeowners and used the association dues
for his own purposes. End of retirement!
CCFJ was born in the year 2000, when some owners met in
Tallahassee
- finding out that power is only in numbers. Bergemann was a
member of Governor Jeb Bush's HOA Task force in 2003/2004.
The organization has two websites to inform interested
Florida
homeowners and condo owners:
News Website: http://www.ccfj.net/.
Educational Website: http://www.ccfjfoundation.net/.
We think that only owners can really represent owners, since all
service providers surely have a different interest! We are
trying to create owner-friendly laws, but the best laws are
useless without enforcement. And enforcement is totally lacking
in
Florida
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