To effect the change our’ members seek the Association For SMART Regulation LLC must compete with the disproportionate impact of some very well-funded special interests whom utilize their knowledge, contacts and resources in the narrow scope of benefiting the industries they represent. This is not a condemnation, merely a recognition of the fact that legislative lobbying efforts are a required means of influencing statutory language to achieve legislative change. Therefore, to be effective our association shall use our collective knowledge, experience, and resources to first identify legislative corrections we support and engage in legislative lobbying.

We will use our unique perspective, based on experience of enacted legislation, and the regulations that agencies have created and their resulting policies and procedures, as well as the impact on individuals, combined with data driven, evidence based, real world analysis summaries, and pooled financial resources to guide the legislature to change specific laws in the best interests of members, non-members and this state itself. We will speak with one voice for the Association to influence legislation to return the idea of limited government to ultimately cause focused and specific agency correct-sizing responsible, accountable, specific, results oriented regulatory regimes that serve in the best interests of all the people. To obtain change we must compete with disproportionately influential industry lobbying efforts by gaining access via lobbying, providing truthful, clean data-based outcome summaries, real-world’ individual stories and specific issues-oriented’ legislative solutions to correct overly aggressive agency activities that go beyond their mandate. Lobbying is not the enemy, it is part of the multi-pronged strategy the Association for Smart Regulation, at smartregulation.org must utilized to affect change that makes a difference. We will become a resource of information that Florida legislatures will come to rely on when weighing the true outcome that statutes and their associated regulatory implementation by state agencies.