SEBC will host an Impact Fees Symposium on Friday, August 17, from 10:00  – 12:00 pm at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee, Florida. Lucy Gallo, a foremost expert on impact fees, will focus on the most prevalent methods that local governments use to increase their fees. Lucy Gallo is a principal …
The FHBA, along with a substantial number of business interests, have taken a position of opposition to an issue being considered by the Constitutional Revision Commission (CRC). Specifically amendment 6010 – Employment Verification. This amendment would place a burden on all business to verify the citizenship status of each employee and is being considered this …
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Join in as FHBA’s building code expert, Joe Belcher, and Director of Governmental Affairs, Douglas Buck, review the upcoming amendments to the code cycle, and offer an overview of the newly established amendment approval process. This lunch & learn webinar is a two-part series, with Part 1 starting Wednesday, May 9, from 11:30 am – …
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With the exception of a few bills, the sun has set on the 2018 Legislative Session. Overall, the session was a success, moving several issues forward while thwarting bad ideas which threaten our industry. Below are the major bills that passed this past session, all but one have been acted upon by the Governor. In …
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via the National Association of Home Builders Since January of last year, rising lumber prices have increased the price of an average single-family home by $6,388. Much of these unprecedented price hikes are due to tariffs averaging more than 20 percent on Canadian softwood lumber shipments into the U.S. The tariffs are acting as a …
Illustrating how the federal regulatory system has run amok and the need for Congress to fix a broken permitting process, a development firm today shared its three-decade-long nightmare with a House panel regarding its futile attempts to obtain a Clean Water Act permit. During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Interior, Energy and the …
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FHBA Legislative Updates – Preliminary Sine Die Report: As of Friday, March 9, the 2018 Legislative Session is adjourned after approving the final budget Sunday afternoon. This report is a preliminary of priorities, pending further review of all the bills and amendments adopted to bills that found their way to the Governor for consideration. FHBA …
There is a new development in the never-ending saga that is the 2015 Clean Water Rule. Today, the 6th Circuit took the formal action of vacating its temporary injunction and dismissing all of the challenges to the rule. Soon after the rule was finalized by the Obama Administration, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued …
FHBA Legislative Updates – Week of February 26, 2018 As we head into this the last and final week of Session, priority legislative initiatives are postured well. All of our priority legislation has passed the House. Note, just because a bill has passed the House, has little controversy surrounding it does not ensure passage. Every …
FHBA Legislative Updates – Week of February 12, 2018 Legislative Conference (by FHBA GA Chair, Frank Severino): I want to thank the nearly 100 members who trekked to Tallahassee putting a local face on this year’s legislative priorities. Timing is everything in this process and FHBA members converged at an opportune time. As we were …
