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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Good job everyone on rejecting HB911. A comment was made that we might offer some other things we would be
against, but that was rightly dismissed. I believe our group possesses the most power by exercising the least power. If we propose, uninvited, opinions on laws, I fear we will not be asked our opinions in the future. Our value lies in being “above the fray.”
Much like a court refusing to answer advisory questions. Advocacy can be left to individuals or the Bar itself.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">While I am
<b><u>sure</u></b> that all <b><u>my</u></b> ideas for laws, rules and regulations are sane and for the good of all and should be emphatically endorsed by this committee – I’m just not sure about
<b><u>your </u></b>ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">I believe Pete should track SB674 and any other proposal that affects the substantive issues of contracting, construction and licensure as we commonly understand it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">Pete’s a smart guy and can weed the wheat from the chaff. Let Pete be Pete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">As for SB 674: Since this came from a Panhandle Senator, being charitable, I suppose the change in the law to allow a GC to use unlicensed trades is an effort to address the hurricane emergency in the Panhandle. There is lots
of work and companies are spread thin – so let out-of-state subs work under a GC’s license.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">But this means we codify an emergency licensing exception throughout the state.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">If passed it would clearly become an end run around licensing by GC’s looking to get an edge on project costs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">Bubba’ Unlimited General Contracting, LLC (BUG) holds a Florida CGC license.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">BUG wants to bid a job that involves a roofing line item but can’t find a Florida licensed roofer for a low price.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">So, BUG gets the idea to use Alabama Poultry and Excavating Inc., (APE) as the roofing subcontractor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">APE became licensed in Alabama through reciprocity with Ark, Miss, LA or TN (not sure which, but there was no test and limited scrutiny as to history)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">Or, BUG created APE as a subsidiary in ‘Bama and that means absolutely no test for roofing due to Alabama licensing laws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">Either way, BUG now gets to undercut every Florida GC using Florida licensed subs under this change via SB674.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">How long until that Alabama sub is just a shell? Or the BUGs add Plumbers, HVAC and Electricians?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">The loser is every Florida Subcontractor who did the right thing by following our rules and every consumer that is infected with the BUG/APE model.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">I ask you, how does this bill promote Fl. Stat. 489.101</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496">“</span><span class="catchlinetext"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;background:white">Purpose.</span></span><span class="emdash"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;background:white">—</span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;background:white">The
Legislature deems it necessary in the interest of the <i>public health, safety, and welfare</i> to regulate the construction indust<span style="color:navy">ry</span></span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:navy;background:white">.”</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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