To: The Florida State House, The Florida State Senate, and Governor Ron DeSantis
Statute of Limitations of Debt.
Let's end the unlimited abuse of debt collection for private citizens and Veterans to 7 years and force state and municipalities pass legislation to streamline collection from corporate entities.
Why is this important?
I represent Veterans all over the globe via the FVA - Freedom Veterans of America as COO of the organization.
It's been brought to my attention that city and state municipalities are going back into the traffic records, sometimes 30 or more years and suspending licenses of citizens and Veterans all over the country for things like an unpaid parking ticket in 1974. In all cases of the Veterans I've dealt with, $18 tickets have exploded into $1000 plus fines as states and municipalities and on an endless list of addition fines.
Nearly all the Veterans I deal with have some form of physical disability, homelessness, PTSD or other condition. Many of them are returning Veterans from the Iraq and Afghan conflicts. After completing their tours, they come back to a state or city municipality which presents them with fines of hundreds and many times thousand of dollars for simple traffic tickets or moving violations.
States and municipalities have taken advantage of a loophole in the statue of limitations laws concerning debt to further burden both Veterans and citizens on offenses that are many times decades old.
If a murderer, a thief of $500 million dollars of art or other can be removed from any type of civil action, collection or criminal charges after 7-20 years, there is no reason private citizens and Veterans should be burden with fines that seriously burden their lives, employment abilities and other daily "Pursuit of Happiness" activities.
I would like to start a petition to introduce legislation that limits ALL debt collection, whether government, civil or somehow criminal to 7 years, period, in all cases.
Let us force the state and municipalities pass laws that streamline the collection of debt and remove all the roadblocks large corporation have introduced via lobbyist legislation that keeps them safe from collection. The same laws that burden the average citizen and Veterans alike.
It's been brought to my attention that city and state municipalities are going back into the traffic records, sometimes 30 or more years and suspending licenses of citizens and Veterans all over the country for things like an unpaid parking ticket in 1974. In all cases of the Veterans I've dealt with, $18 tickets have exploded into $1000 plus fines as states and municipalities and on an endless list of addition fines.
Nearly all the Veterans I deal with have some form of physical disability, homelessness, PTSD or other condition. Many of them are returning Veterans from the Iraq and Afghan conflicts. After completing their tours, they come back to a state or city municipality which presents them with fines of hundreds and many times thousand of dollars for simple traffic tickets or moving violations.
States and municipalities have taken advantage of a loophole in the statue of limitations laws concerning debt to further burden both Veterans and citizens on offenses that are many times decades old.
If a murderer, a thief of $500 million dollars of art or other can be removed from any type of civil action, collection or criminal charges after 7-20 years, there is no reason private citizens and Veterans should be burden with fines that seriously burden their lives, employment abilities and other daily "Pursuit of Happiness" activities.
I would like to start a petition to introduce legislation that limits ALL debt collection, whether government, civil or somehow criminal to 7 years, period, in all cases.
Let us force the state and municipalities pass laws that streamline the collection of debt and remove all the roadblocks large corporation have introduced via lobbyist legislation that keeps them safe from collection. The same laws that burden the average citizen and Veterans alike.