CALL TO ACTION ON SB 512 and HB 325
These two companion bills are of great concern as they both would require reporting stays at vacation rentals over 24 hours.
What needs to be done:
- Call the legislators on the committees listed below that will be hearing these bills.
- You will need to give your name, contact information (either an email address or phone number), state that you oppose the language in the bill that would require reporting stays at vacation rentals over 24 hours, and give one or two VERY BRIEF reasons why you oppose the bill.
- If you call after hours, voicemail will pick you up. Give the same information listed above (your name, contact information, and that you oppose the language in the bill concerning reporting stays over 24 hours in vacation rentals). The aides all say that they do count the yeas and nays from the voicemails.
- If possible, also send an email listing the reasons why you oppose each of the following bills. On the subject line, only put the bill number and that you oppose it. (Example: SB 512, Oppose)
Talking points and contact information:
SENATE BILL 512 (Author: Senator Danny Burgess) and HOUSE BILL 325 (Author: Jason Fischer)
Our concern: These companion bills would require reporting stays at vacation rentals AND ALL temporary residencies over 24 hours.
Talking Points:
- The shortened time for required registration will make it impossible for registered citizens to comply if they check in on a weekend.
- This part of the bill would most likely make it impossible for registered citizens to travel.
- Because this part of the bill could make it nearly impossible for registered citizens to travel throughout the state of Florida, FDLE has warned of lawsuits coming over this issue.
- FDLE has said this change will lead to a “substantial increase” in the number of registered citizens required to complete a registration. This will potentially increase the workload of the FDLE and require programming changes to FDLE’s technology systems and incur increased costs.
- This additional restriction would be punitive for registered citizens, making it unconstitutional.
- What is the purpose of requiring this 24-hour registration? What is the research that is being used to justify this part of the bill?
Committee members that need to be contacted to oppose SB 512:
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Senator Kelli Stargel (R)-Chair (850) 487-5022 [email protected]
Senator Aaron Bean (R)-Vice Chair (850) 487-5004 [email protected]
Senator Ben Albritton (R) (850) 487-5026 [email protected]
Senator Dennis Baxley (R) (850) 487-5012 [email protected]
Senator Lauren Book (D) (850) 487-5032 [email protected]
Senator Randolph Bracy (D) (850) 487-5011 [email protected]
Senator Jeff Brandes (R) (850) 487-5024 [email protected]
Senator Doug Broxson (R) (850) 487-5001 [email protected]
Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R) (850) 487-5036 [email protected]
Senator George B. Gainer (R) (850) 487-5002 [email protected]
Senator Audrey Gibson (D) (850) 487-5006 [email protected]
Senator Ed Hooper (R) (850) 487-5016 [email protected]
Senator Travis Hutson (R) (850) 487-5007 [email protected]
Senator Debbie Mayfield (R) (850) 487-5017 [email protected]
Senator Kathleen Passidomo (R) (850) 487-5028 [email protected]
Senator Keith Perry (R) (850) 487-5008 [email protected]
Senator Jason W. B. Pizzo (D) (850) 487-5038 [email protected]
Senator Bobby Powell (D) (850) 487-5030 [email protected]
Senator Darryl Ervin Rouson (D) (850) 487-5019 [email protected]
Senator Linda Stewart (D) (850) 487-5013 [email protected]
Committee members that need to be contacted to oppose HB 325:
House Ways and Means Committee
Payne, Bobby [R]-Chair (850) 717-5019 [email protected]
Zika, Ardian [R]-Vice Chair (850) 717-5037 [email protected]
Eskamani, Anna V. [D]-Democratic Ranking Member (850) 717-5047 [email protected]
Altman, Thad [R] (850) 717-5052 [email protected]
Caruso, Michael A. “Mike” [R] (850) 717-5089 [email protected]
Casello, Joseph A. “Joe” [D] (850) 717-5090 [email protected]
Clemons, Sr., Charles Wesley “Chuck” [R] (850) 717-5021 [email protected]
DiCeglie, Nick [R] (850) 717-5066 [email protected]
Grieco, Michael [D] (850) 717-5113 [email protected]
Hart, Dianne “Ms Dee” [D] (850) 717-5061 [email protected]
Killebrew, Sam H. [R] (850) 717-5041 [email protected]
Maggard, Randall Scott “Randy” [R] (850) 717-5038 [email protected]
McClain, Stan [R] (850) 717-5023 [email protected]
Sabatini, Anthony [R] (850) 717-5032 [email protected]
Shoaf, Jason [R] (850) 717-5007 [email protected]
Silvers, David [D] (850) 717-5087 [email protected]
Sirois, Tyler I. [R] (850) 717-5051 [email protected]
Slosberg-King, Emily [D] (850) 717-5091 [email protected]
House Commerce Committee
Ingoglia, Blaise [R]-Chair (850) 717-5035 [email protected]
Drake, Brad [R]-Vice Chair (850) 717-5005 [email protected]
McFarland, Fiona [R]-Republican Committee Whip (850) 717-5072 [email protected]
Silvers, David [D]-Democratic Ranking Member (850) 717-5087 [email protected]
Barnaby, Webster [R] (850) 717-5027 [email protected]
Clemons, Sr., Charles Wesley “Chuck” [R] (850) 717-5021 [email protected]
Daley, Dan [D] (850) 717-5097 [email protected]
DiCeglie, Nick [R] (850) 717-5066 [email protected]
Fabricio, Tom [R] (850) 717-5103 [email protected]
Geller, Joseph [D] (850) 717-5100 [email protected]
Grieco, Michael [D] (850) 717-5113 [email protected]
Hage, Brett Thomas [R] (850) 717-5033 [email protected]
Latvala, Chris [R] (850) 717-5067 [email protected]
Maggard, Randall Scott “Randy” [R] (850) 717-5038 [email protected]
McClure, Lawrence [R] (850) 717-5058 [email protected]
Nixon, Angela “Angie” [D] (850) 717-5014 [email protected]
Omphroy, Anika Tene [D] (850) 717-5095 [email protected]
Plakon, Scott [R] (850) 717-5029 [email protected]
Plasencia, Rene “Coach P” [R] (850) 717-5050 [email protected]
Rommel, Bob [R] (850) 717-5106 [email protected]
Shoaf, Jason [R] (850) 717-5007 [email protected]
Thompson, Geraldine F. “Geri” [D] (850) 717-5044 [email protected]
Tomkow, Josie [R] (850) 717-5039 [email protected]
Willhite, Matt [D] (850) 717-5086 [email protected]
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I haven’t seen this mentioned but some family members and relatives of a registered person, live in communities that has restrictions and covenants in the deed to their property, that a Sex Offender can not live in that house and community. If a registrant has to give one of these address as a resident, it could get the owner kicked out of their house and community once it is registered as a place a registrant stays. I hope I am thinking wrong, please let me know if so.
I have contacted everyone on the list and I have had responses from them.
Thank you, DCG , for all the contacts that you have made.
I emailed all the senators and this is the only automated response that I got back from and it was from Senator Diaz.
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding your thoughts and concerns. Constituent feedback is very important to me.
I welcome the opportunity to be of service to you. This inbox is monitored on a regular basis.
However, due to the high volume of emails we receive, it is sometimes difficult to reply in a timely manner. If you require immediate assistance, please do not hesitate to contact my Tallahassee office at (850) 487-5036 or my district office at (305) 364-3073.
Thank you once again for contacting me.
Sincerely,
Manny Diaz, Jr
State Senator
District 36
Thank you, Tim P., for contacting these legislators. The legislators receive so many emails that they are unable to usually contact you back, but they will know that you oppose the bill and why. It does count.
Media…
How Can You Be Sure That a ‘Computer Generated Response’ Counts?
‘They’ Can Just Automatically Delete Everything!
‘They’ Say that ‘They’ are Counting ‘Yays’ and ‘Nays’; But Do You Really Think So and Do You Really Think that ‘They’ Really Give a Damn?…HELL NO!
This is Just all Window Dressing!
Ouvrez Les Yeux!
So use tax dollars to pay busy staffers to spend time illegally deleting emails from their own constituents?
Not likely.
We do not know for sure what happens after we make the contact, but we have to try. I do know that when Pizzo’s office was contacted, they said that they had received other “Nays”, so at least his office is listening, and hopefully others.
Here’s a reply from Senator Passidomo.
Thank you for contacting Senator Passidomo regarding Senate Bill 512-Vacation Rentals and expressing your concerns with the language regarding new requirements for the registry. I spoke with the Senator and she indicated the House Bill and Senate Bill are very far apart and lacking agreement on language. Therefore, the bills are unlikely to pass.
Thank you.
Becky Kokkinos
Chief Legislative Aide to Senator Kathleen Passidomo
District 28
850-487-5028
Senate Office Building 400
Great, Tim P.
FAC, could you please point out exactly where in the bill there is a requirement that all temporary addresses of 24 hours or more would have to be registered? The bill specifically states this is only for vacation rentals. I have read the bill very carefully and cannot find this, at all. I have copied the relevant text from the current version of SB 512 (Committee Substitute 1):
(n) “Temporary residence” means a place where the person abides, lodges, or resides, including, but not limited to, vacation, business, or personal travel destinations in or out of this state, for a period of 3 or more days in the aggregate during any calendar year and which is not the person’s permanent address or, for a person whose permanent residence is not in this state, a place where the person is employed, practices a vocation, or is enrolled as a student for any period of time in this state. The term also includes a vacation rental, as defined in s. 509.242(1)(c), where a person lodges for 24 hours or more.
(The only addition to the definition of temporary residence is the last sentence.)
You are correct, RM. I am not sure who wrote this. I’m going to ensure it is edited.
Or almost everything.
Look at the statute reference, above.
‘Vacation Rental’ is defined very broadly.
It seems to include hotels, apartment buildings, and virtually everything except single-family homes.
Use caution in how you edit this Call to Action, FAC. RM may have answered his/her own question.
(Please, please, let me be wrong).
Following RM’s lead:
‘A vacation rental is any unit or group of units in a condominium or cooperative or any individually or collectively owned single-family, two-family, three-family, or four-family house or dwelling unit that is also a transient public lodging establishment but that is not a timeshare project.’
So it’s anything that’s a transient public lodging establishment (other than timeshare).
So what is a ‘transient public lodging establishment’?
‘Transient public lodging establishment: means any unit, group of units, dwelling, building, or group of buildings within a single complex of buildings which is rented to guests more than three times in a calendar year for periods of less than 30 days or 1 calendar month, whichever is less, or which is advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented to guests.’
Guess this includes all hotels and motels?
At least I was (hopefully) wrong about apartment buildings.
A vacation rental is any transient public lodging establishment.*
A transient public lodging establishment is anything rented to guests at least 3x/year for less than a month.
A transient public lodging establishment is also anything held out as a place regularly rented to guests.
Do we need to discuss further?
*timeshares exempted
The only purpose that I can see for the shortening of the time limit for registrants to register their stay anywhere is to get them off the street and back into prison. In this way, they “clean” up the streets of those homeless, “unwanted” persons that they deem a hazard to society. However, they are wrong in doing this as in the end it will place a tremendous strain on the judicial system, prison system and not to mention law enforcement. I live in Tennessee and can only hope and pray that this legislation in Florida fails mightily.
Didn’t Judge Hinkle allow this very issue to stand in the Expost Facto 2 case. That is what we should be pointing out. These two bills will nothing but infringe upon and chill a registrants right to travel and SCOTUS has already said the Right to travel is fundamental. Don’t have the case. Sorry possibly Saenez v Roe
You are not correct. He pointed out the absurdity of the three day rule.
Ah I see so what issue did he let the case proceed. Now I am confused but it doesn’t take much
For registrants, this is not a bill about vacation rentals, but a bill about ALL TRAVEL.
And it directly conflicts with (and is more drastic than) the other bill (Sen Hooper’s) that is the subject of a call to action.
IS THIS CORRECT?