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<p class="MsoNormal">I support the position that parties should be able to contract for waiver terms that vary from statutory forms and that such contractual terms should be enforceable. This is consistent with the current status quo.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It would be helpful if someone could circulate the text of the proposed Bill at issue so we can see the actual language in full. For example, I am curious to read the full extent of the proposed new statutory waiver forms and whether they
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215 N. Eola Dr. | Orlando, FL 32801</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> clc-discussion-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org <clc-discussion-bounces@lists.flabarrpptl.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>RPPTL CLC-Discussion<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> clc-discussion@lists.flabarrpptl.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CLC-Discussion] Construction Liens and Bonds - CS/SB 622 and HB 473<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Please find the emails setting forth the positions of RPPTL being argued this week before the Florida legislature. RPPTL via the RPPTL lobbyist is supporting amendments
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please share your opinions on this issue with the entire CLC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Warren Husband <<a href="mailto:whh@MHDFirm.com" target="_blank">whh@MHDFirm.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 22, 2021 1:19 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> French Brown (<a href="mailto:FBrown@deanmead.com" target="_blank">FBrown@deanmead.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:FBrown@deanmead.com" target="_blank">FBrown@deanmead.com</a>>; Carol Bowen (<a href="mailto:cbowen@abceastflorida.com" target="_blank">cbowen@abceastflorida.com</a>)
<<a href="mailto:cbowen@abceastflorida.com" target="_blank">cbowen@abceastflorida.com</a>>; Kari Hebrank (<a href="mailto:KHebrank@carltonfields.com" target="_blank">KHebrank@carltonfields.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:KHebrank@carltonfields.com" target="_blank">KHebrank@carltonfields.com</a>>;
Rusty Payton (<a href="mailto:rpayton@fhba.com" target="_blank">rpayton@fhba.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:rpayton@fhba.com" target="_blank">rpayton@fhba.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Construction Liens and Bonds - CS/SB 622 and HB 473 (Status Update)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Sure. For example, if you are the owner or lender, you do not have a contract with the subs, subs-subs, or suppliers (same for the general contractor with respect
to the sub-subs and suppliers), so you might want the lien waivers obtained from each of these potential lienors during the course of construction to warrant the following to the owner, lender, and/or general contractor:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warrant that the work performed or material supplied under the lien waiver is in accordance with the lienor’s contract.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warrant that the work performed or material supplied under the lien waiver is in accordance with the Florida Building Code (and any required product approvals under the Code).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warrant that the work under the lien waiver was performed in a workmanlike manner (for a sub or sub-sub).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warrant that the materials supplied under the lien waiver were new and of good quality (for a supplier).
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warrant that the lienor has not assigned its lien rights to another party.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warrant that the lienor is not delinquent in paying any of its subs or suppliers on the project.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 19, 2021 9:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:perry.keith@flsenate.gov" target="_blank">perry.keith@flsenate.gov</a>;
<a href="mailto:Jackie.Toledo@myfloridahouse.gov" target="_blank">Jackie.Toledo@myfloridahouse.gov</a>; Ramba, Megan <<a href="mailto:Ramba.Megan@flsenate.gov" target="_blank">Ramba.Megan@flsenate.gov</a>>; Clemens, Clayton <<a href="mailto:Clayton.Clemens@myfloridahouse.gov" target="_blank">Clayton.Clemens@myfloridahouse.gov</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> French Brown (<a href="mailto:FBrown@deanmead.com" target="_blank">FBrown@deanmead.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:FBrown@deanmead.com" target="_blank">FBrown@deanmead.com</a>>; Carol Bowen (<a href="mailto:cbowen@abceastflorida.com" target="_blank">cbowen@abceastflorida.com</a>)
<<a href="mailto:cbowen@abceastflorida.com" target="_blank">cbowen@abceastflorida.com</a>>; Kari Hebrank (<a href="mailto:KHebrank@carltonfields.com" target="_blank">KHebrank@carltonfields.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:KHebrank@carltonfields.com" target="_blank">KHebrank@carltonfields.com</a>>;
Rusty Payton (<a href="mailto:rpayton@fhba.com" target="_blank">rpayton@fhba.com</a>) <<a href="mailto:rpayton@fhba.com" target="_blank">rpayton@fhba.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Construction Liens and Bonds - CS/SB 622 and HB 473 (Status Update)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Good morning, one and all. On behalf of RPPTL, AGC, ABC, and the Home Builders, we wanted to touch base with Sen. Perry, Rep. Toledo, and Melissa on where we currently
stand as we try to resolve our remaining concerns with this bill.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">In sum, as the bill now stands in the form of CS/SB 622, there are three issues remaining from our earlier correspondence, which involve the provisions on: (a) lien
waivers, (2) service address for lien documents, and (3) the conditions for filing a single claim of lien.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">In the attached document, we propose a compromise in which we would recede from our objections and accept the current language in the bill with respect to the last
two items: service address and single claim of lien.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">On the lien waiver issue, we would also accept the language last proposed by the Suppliers stating that lien waivers “shall” (rather than “may”) substantially comply
with the statutory form. On the Suppliers’ proposed language below that would render a waiver unenforceable if it varies from the statutory waiver form, however, we simply cannot agree that this is sound public policy.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">(8) A lien waiver or lien release that is not substantially similar to the forms in subsections (4) and (5) is
<u>not</u> enforceable in accordance with the terms of the lien waiver or lien release.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">As proposed, the language would render a lien waiver that includes any “extra” terms completely unenforceable, even with respect to its waiver of lien rights and even
if the lienor had entered into a contract agreeing to the “extra” terms or to the use of a non-statutory waiver form.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">While there are positive elements in the bill that would be helpful across all segments of the construction industry, the problems created by this proposed language
simply outweigh the positive elements and make it impossible for us to support the bill.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">However</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">, we are suggesting alternative language that we genuinely believe will
accomplish the objectives of the Suppliers. As explained to us, the Suppliers do not want to be bound by the terms of lengthy and complicated waiver forms that their customers (subs and sub-subs) are pressuring them to sign in the context of those customers
seeking progress payments or final payments on a job. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">We have no issue with that concept
<b><u>unless</u></b> the Supplier has entered into a contract in which they agreed to the “extra” terms or to the use of a non-statutory waiver form. As explained in the attached document, the language we propose is as follows:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.25in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#0070C0">(8) A lien waiver or lien release that is not substantially
similar to the forms in subsections (4) and (5) is enforceable <u>only to the extent of its release or waiver of lien rights or as otherwise agreed to in the lienor’s contract</u>
<s>in accordance with the terms of the lien waiver or lien release</s>.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Importantly, this language should still afford the Suppliers what they want</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"> --
the capacity to sign all manner of waiver forms, even those with “extra” terms, without fear that those “extra” terms are enforceable, so long as the Supplier has not signed a contract agreeing to the “extra” terms or to the use of a non-statutory waiver form.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Thanks to everyone for their efforts on this bill.
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