Comments on: Vacation rental bills in peril

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 02 May 2018 22:55:17 +0000

In reply to Darren.

Murphy and her trio of lobbyists will create whatever
means necessary to ensure the CASH COW in large fines that the counties imposes on homeowners for 1st time offense…I don’t believe that was the intention of this home rule law when it was adopted
Shame on our politicians

By: JV

JV — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:36:57 +0000

Is this a game for politicians?? See what class of people I can mess with and create laws/bills about to pad my resume, always stating some vague reference to “making people safer”…..??

Disgusting when it comes to being elected you just try to screw around with as many people as possible instead of trying to do things that actually matter.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:57:06 +0000

So I’m confused. Did the trio introduce this amendment in a clever way to have the ENTIRE Senate bill 1400 not to be passed? In other words, did they introduce it, knowing it won’t be passed?

“It doesn’t match the Senate bill (CS/SB 1400), and it’s a very onerous thing for the vacation rentals to have to go through this notification process. The Senate will probably not take that bill up because of that amendment, so we maybe have dodged a bullet,” Murphy said.

With Becky Vose present, Murphy thanked the trio for their “work, diligence and creativity.”

By: C

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:48:13 +0000

What is the end result? What is the lodgings new liability under this proposed law? If a hotel owner forgets, can’t demonstrate due diligence (these aren’t ISO certified corporations we’re talking about), or refuses to comply because they don’t want their new guests associating their business with sexual predators, or if a predator does not identify themselves either being deceitful or because they may not be sexual predators in the state of their residence, what is the consequence?

And what hotel owner is going to provide lodging to a sexual predator if they then must notify all their guests. How are they expected to demonstrate compliance?

On it’s face this law is exclusively designed to have a chilling effect on transient sexual predators looking for shelter.

And what redress do offenders or anyone else have against hotels who don’t understand the difference between sexual offenders and predators and attempt to apply this law to anyone with a reportable sex conviction?

Masturbating in a government building will probably get you on the sex offenders registry, I guess unless you were elected to be there?