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2021 FLORIDA LEGISLATIVE SESSION
By
Jan Bergemann
Published January 29, 2021
I think we said enough about the problems of MASTER
ASSOCIATIONS: It’s always very problematic to serve two masters.
I have a different topic that is very important to me and
millions of Florida’s homeowners and condo-owners: The
UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
We have published our wish list for this session at:
www.hoareformbill.net .
These are mostly HOA reforms, but two important bills for condos
have already been filed.
Florida's legislative session will convene on March 2, 2021 and
will (if on schedule) adjourn on April 30, 2021. This week was
so-called committee week. So far two community association bills
have been filed: S 56 (Senator Ana Maria Rodriguez
R-Miami) and SB 630 (Senator Dennis Baxley R-Ocala). For
details go to our website. We are busy talking with "friendly"
legislators about our Reform Bill Wish-List.
Main issues:
Elections, Liens for Fines, Mandatory Education and Political
Signs.
Fair Elections should be in the interest of anybody in this
country, considering that there are still lots of investigations
and lawsuits pending looking into election fraud. With our
momentary election laws in place for HOAs a sitting board can
legally win the election, because it's possible to eliminate any
competition without them even having the chance to really
challenge the sitting board members. And if all fails they can
always blackmail any opposition by levying fines and filing
liens, stopping opposing owners from even being able to be a
candidate.
Just read the bill proposals on our HOA/CONDO REFORM BILL
WEBSITE.
If you want to help pushing these important bills for
homeowners, please contact me by e-mail at:
[email protected].
We all need to talk to our local legislators in order to help to
push this bill. Next week is a great time because all
legislators and their legislative assistants are back home from
Tallahassee.
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
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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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