Mr. Durbin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from illinois. Mr. Durbin i ask consent the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Durbin i ask consent to speak in morning business. The presiding officer the senate is in morning business. Mr. Durbin mr. President , im proud to join several of my colleagues this morning in introducing a substitute amendment to the justice for victims of trafficking act of 2015. Human trafficking is a global scourge, and we should be working on a bipartisan basis and a bicameral basis to stop it. However, im deeply concerned to learn that our friends on the other side of the aisle have inserted a worrisome provision into this years version of the bill. This provision would expand upon the socalled Hyde Amendment which restricts funds for womens Reproductive Health choices. The new language which has been offered by senator cornyn of texas would send a new dangerous precedent by enabling hyde restrictions to ap
By the tactics of a 20 billion corporation or actually going to hear from our neighbors and respond to their concerns i hope that the skewer is is well hear if the communities and pass regulations that actually regulate this industry but ultimate if we fail to do that this decision is not going to be decisions here in people in the building fail to do the right thing we know in the end this item will be and should be taken to the voters and if city hall fails to do its job the city and county of San Francisco will have the final say now i want to add one more point supervisor kim and i have spoken about an amendment shell like to see in my proposal im willing to amend my private right of action to he will amend it to shorten the 60 day waiting period after on Interested Party files a complaint to shoirlg it to thirty o thirty days if this amendment a maid shell withdraw the private right of action in her proposal so at the predicament time apologizing id like to make a motion to make t
Related to shortterm rentals is a challenge its not easy there are other areas that are also changing relying only people to selfreport before tax or your principle place of riots leave times you rely on people to be honest and find ways to enforce the people that are violating the law and send a message we have legislation from supervisor farrell and from the mayor creating a new office to enforce the shortterm rentals it is a great idea i have a question why not would be existing law thats been in effect for hundred days and i also have questions about the registration process weve heard if some hosts it is an absolute nightmare to be registered i have questions about the private right of action i think we all want to have good enforcement but dont want to create a situation federal and state this is all about neighbors suing neighbors theyd one of the pieces of legislation that is a real issue like supervisor farrell i have significant questions about data and enforcement and i thin
Ends meet in now the most expensive city in america how we approach this this is extremely important to strengthen and streamline our current framework and processes i do believe that mayor lees and my legislation strikes that balance we have a point of view that includes the following a hundred and 20 day hard coop on shortterm rentals this is the planning they needed in order to make this law enforceable and treating all shortterm rental hosts by striking the currency laws fine motivating hosting and nonhosting and the citys private right of action neighbors within one feet to seek remedies of those violating the shortterm rentals law in order to further mitigate the quality of life issues in the neighborhood and more importantly from my phonetics creating on office of shortterm rental administration and enforcement that provides a single location for members of the public to both apply for the city register and the city staff to enforce the law a onestop shop that is a physical loca
Supervisor farrell and from the mayor creating a new office to enforce the shortterm rentals it is a great idea i have a question why not would be existing law thats been in effect for hundred days and i also have questions about the registration process weve heard if some hosts it is an absolute nightmare to be registered i have questions about the private right of action i think we all want to have good enforcement but dont want to create a situation federal and state this is all about neighbors suing neighbors theyd one of the pieces of legislation that is a real issue like supervisor farrell i have significant questions about data and enforcement and i think that supervisor farrell hit the nail on the head there are a lot of different areas where for whatever area enforcement it might be great to require facebook or google or whoever else to create data for enforcement but as a matter of proving volumes we may you know, i think were generally not in support of having the government