Category Archives: Legislative Alerts – 2012

Our call-to-action requests, legislative alerts and reports (sorted by date posted).

Why is the Committee Process so Important?

The committee is the heart of the legislative process. Committees can and should do the fact-finding groundwork. The formation of committees breaks down the legislature into numerous small groups. Opportunity is thus afforded for closer study of a bill than would be possible in debate on the floor. In this preliminary screening, the committee will…

Potential 2012 Legislative Bill on Vehicle Service Contract Refunds

Will you have the documents when an auditor from the OFR (Office of Financial Regulation) asks you to document that you returned money to a vehicle service contract owner for refunds, over-charges or under-charges?

Special thanks to attendees of the 2011 NADA Washington Conference

Special thanks to the following dealers who took time out of their dealerships to go to DC and lobby our Florida Congressional delegation – George Nahas, Raj Lally, Randy Parks, Jay Rivchin, David Yglesias, Bill Buckingham and Compton Cramer.

Governor Scott Allows FADA’s Dealer Bill to Pass

Thanks so much to all of you who called and emailed the Governor’s office last week asking him to sign HB 437!  Your contacts helped us get this law into the books, though we failed to earn the Governor’s actual signature on our bill.  Of the 277 bills that were passed by the legislature, HB…

Meet with Your Members of Congress During Congressional Recess

With Congress scheduled to be home for Congressional Recesses (now through July 4 for the House | July 2 – 10 for the Senate), we wanted to update you on