Bill Number:

PCS for HB 213

Bill Name:

Judicial Proceedings

Action:

Favorable With Amendments

Committee:

Civil Justice Subcommittee

Location:

404 HOB

Duration:

2.50

Date:

1/25/2012 8:00:00 AM

Sponsor:

Subject:

Judicial Proceedings

 

Y Abruzzo Y Gaetz Y Kiar Y Passidomo Y Stargel
Y Bernard Y Hager Y Metz – Plakon Y Steinberg
Y Eisnaugle Y Harrison Y Oliva N Soto Y Weinstein

 

Total Yeas: 13 Total Nays: 1 Total Missed: 1 Total Votes: 15

General Bill by Passidomo (CO-SPONSORS) Moraitis Voted Favorable With Amendments

Judicial Proceedings: Designates act “Florida Fair Foreclosure Act”; revises requirements for acknowledgement of satisfaction of mortgage, lien, or judgment; provides requirements for mortgage foreclosure complaints; requires party foreclosing on specified owner-occupied dwellings to provide specified notice; provides for finality of foreclosure; requires certain actions to set aside foreclosure to be treated as actions for money damages; provides requirements for preparation and recording of instrument acknowledging satisfaction; prohibits certain claims following foreclosure based on enforcement of lost, destroyed, or stolen note; provides requirements for deficiency decrees in foreclosures of certain occupied units; revises procedural provisions relating to foreclosure proceedings; provides for determination of reasonable attorney fees for foreclosing certain owner-occupied properties; provides for election by foreclosing lender to proceed without public sale in certain circumstances; provides for liability of persons wrongly claiming under lost, stolen, or destroyed notes; provides for sanctions for raising unsupported claims or defenses & delay of litigation.

TAKE ACTION NOW! CALL MEMBERS OF THE CIVIL JUSTICE COMMITTEE!

Tell them you disapprove of their actions on this bill…

 

HERE’S THE LIST OF THE CIVIL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO CALL
(especially CALL chair Eric Eisnaugle 850 488-9770, co-chair Larry Metz 850 488 0348)

Email Your Representative

Capitol Office
417 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-9770

Email Your Representative

Capitol Office
1101 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-0348

Email Your Representative

Capitol Office
1402 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-0690

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Capitol Office
405 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-4791

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Capitol Office
405 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-8632

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Capitol Office
1003 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-1170

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Capitol Office
1101 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-2234

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Capitol Office
1301 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-3087

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Capitol Office
1402 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 487-1588

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Capitol Office
1301 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 487-2197

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Capitol Office
324 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-4487

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Capitol Office
317 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-2231

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Capitol Office
200 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-9240

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Capitol Office
313 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-2270

Email Your Representative

Capitol Office
323 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-1304

This is a call out to everyone in every state.

People who live in NON-judicial states please call in as well!

Get on the phones, send them email, let them know the entire country is watching…

A copy of the staff analysis and copy of the bill is below…

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4closureFraud.org

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House of Representatives Staff Analysis

Florida Fair Foreclosure Act