In politics, money talks. This is why RPAC and the Florida Realtors PAC are here to give you a voice! With over 4,000 bills being introduced by the Florida Legislature each year, it is very easy for a new bill to be passed that directly disrupts Realtors ability to do business and homeownership rights. For this reason, Florida Realtors monitors each and every bill and uses the funds generated by RPAC donations to ensure we are giving a voice to Realtor issues.
Legislative victories in 2021:
- COVID-19 Business Liability Protections - Provides protections for Florida businesses and healthcare providers from lawsuits resulting from COVID-19-related circumstances.
- Limited Impact Fees - Prevents impact fees from being increased more than every 4 years and caps the increase at 50%
- Protection for Home-based Business - Ensures local government can't treat home-based businesses differently than any other business.
- Guaranteed Permanent funding for Affordable Housing
- Massive Reduction to the Business Rent Tax - Requires out of state retailers to remit sales taxes on purchases made by Floridians creating over a billion dollars in funders allocated to BRT. Cost savings of 2 - 5.5% to commercial tenants.