The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . a contract dispute relating to the improvement of real property in Florida, in violation of section 47.025 . . . We reverse that order because if the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) applies, it preempts section 47.025 . . . Sachse argued to the trial court that the FAA preempts section 47.025. . . . The FAA and Preemption Section 47.025, entitled "Actions against contractors," provides as follows: Any . . . Bright, and LaSalle, support our determination that the FAA preempts section 47.025. . . .
. . . . § 47.025 ] apparently resulted from the lobbying of the contracting community increasingly opposed . . . Stat. § 47.025 (passed in 1999); 815 Ill. Comp. Stat. 665/10 (passed in 2002); Neb. Rev. . . .
. . . See § 47.025, Fla. Stat. (1999). . . .
. . . Kerr argued that section 47.025, Florida Statutes (1999), which became effective on October 1, 1999, . . . The next issue we must resolve is whether section 47.025, Florida Statutes (1999) applies retrospectively . . . In applying the above rules of construction to section 47.025, we note that section 47.025 provides that . . . Having concluded that section 47.025 is procedural and that procedural statutes apply retroactively, . . . This is not a valid argument because section 47.025 does not apply to that provision in the subcontract . . .