Here is a list of some of the bills that are being considered in the 2023 Florida 60 day legislative session with a brief description. The oppose or support is my personal views and not necessarily the views of the FCFS. The alerts are from our allies. Please consider clicking on them if you agree with the oppose/support position.

The status of the senate version of the bill is as of 4/21/2023.

The descriptions are based on the bill as written as of March 14th–amendments and committee substitutes subsequent to that date might change these descriptions. Even numbers are Senate bills. Odd numbers are House bills. The companion bill is identical unless otherwise indicated.

​CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY, ECONOMIC JUSTICE

• SUPPORT  270 /  513  – Equal Rights for men and women, ERA —Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT  137 /  1598  – Department of Labor – Creates department to provide services–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• OPPOSE  129  / 1410  – Proposes amendment to State Constitution to increase percentage of elector votes required to approve amendment to or revision of State Constitution from 60 percent to 66.67 percent, except repeal of amendment or revision need only be approved by same percentage of elector votes as was required at time of passage of such amendment or revision. What will happen? The Senate committees haven’t heard the bill, but the House version is on the House floor.

​HEALTH INCLUDING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

• SUPPORT 1076 / 1033  – Reproductive Health Care Rights–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT 646  / 1199  – Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT  730 /  779 (similarities but not identical)  – Providing incarcerated pregnant people right to defer sentencing until after delivery–What will happen? The Senate committees haven’t heard the bill, but the House version is on the House floor.
• OPPOSE  300 /   7  – Bans abortions  after six weeks and requires medication abortion to be supervised by a physician-signed by the Governor
• Oppose 1580 / 1403  would allow healthcare providers and insurers to deny a patient care on the basis of religious, beliefs–Action alert:

​LGBTQ RIGHTS

• SUPPORT  328 /  393 -Gay and Transgender legal defense–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT  330  and the similar 276  -no bill in house as of 3/14/2023 – Adds gender to the crimes evidencing prejudice  statute-Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• OPPOSE    254  / 1421 Creates criminal penalties for the provision of “sex-reassignment” prescriptions or procedures.  Prohibits person’s biological sex from being changed on birth certificate with a few exceptions;  prohibits health insurance policy & health maintenance contract from providing coverage for “gender clinical interventions as defined in s.  456.52(1).”  Prohibits certain care and requires  physician’s license to be revoked if the the physician violated this section.   action alert
• OPPOSE 952 / 1265 – Imposes unfair rules on employers who include gender dysphoria treatment in their health insurance policies –-See action alert for SB 254
• OPPOSE 1438 / 1423 Seeks to ban drag shows and allows people in power the ability to define art for everyone  as of 4/21/2023 SB 1438 passed the House and Senate

​RACIAL JUSTICE

• Watch  804  / 551  – Required African – American History Instruction in all publicly funded schools –One more committee to go-Questions in committee wanting a guarantee that Rufo’s organization wouldn’t do the training
• SUPPORT  332  -no bill in house as of 3/14/2023 -Public Records/Hate Crimes Reporting Act-Collects related data–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT 590 /  51 (similarities) – Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle-Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda–

​EDUCATION/CHILDREN

• SUPPORT  584 / 217 (similar) – Creates “Children’s Bill of Rights Act”-Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda–
• SUPPORT  324 /  311 – Education-Post-Secondary Intellectual Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT  334 /  389  – Menstrual Hygiene Products in Public Schools–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• OPPOSE  94 /  31  – Partisan Election for District School Boards –as of 4/21/2023 HB 31 passed the House and Senate
• OPPOSE  202 /  1 (similar) – Subsidizes the private school tuition of millionaires– signed by the Governor . Action alert to the budget committee requesting that the $4.4 billion estimated cost not be taken from the budget of the neighborhood schools.
• OPPOSE 266  /  999 (similar) -It would ban certain programs such as gender studies, terminate jobs, corrupt the hiring process, and censor academic thought. Action Alert
• OPPOSE  1320 /  1069  –  Defines sex as the “classification of a human person as being either male or female based on the organization of the body of such person for a specific reproductive role.”  Teach that these “reproductive roles are binary, stable, and unchangeable.”  Prohibits an employee, contractor, or student of a public school from being required to refer to a person using personal titles or pronouns that do not correspond with that person’s sex as defined in the bill.  Expands last year’s HB 1557  (the don’t say gay bill that has created chaos and discrimination) from grade 3 to grade 8.   action alert .
• Oppose 1445 / 256 Harms the teachers union  action alert .

​VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN/GUN VIOLENCE

• SUPPORT 130 /  97 (similar)  – Requires courts to look at domestic violence history when initiating a parenting plan–as of 4/21/2023 SB 130 passed the House and Senate
• SUPPORT  166 / 59 (similar) – Human Trafficking and Prostitution–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT  1022 /  123  – Sexual Battery on Mentally Incapacitated Person–Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• SUPPORT  191 / 1656 – Financial Aid for Victims of Rape, Incest, Domestic Violence,—-Committee chairs refused to put it on the agenda
• OPPOSE    150 /  543 (similar)  Permit-less Carry of Weapons & Firearms —  signed by the Governor
• OPPOSE  1543 -(no companion bill in the senate as of 3/14/2023) Lowers the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 21 to 18–What will happen? No senate version, but the House version is on the House floor.

​MISCELANEOUS

• OPPOSE 991 /  1220 (similar) – Makes it easier to file a lawsuit against journalists for criticizing  public officials.-  action alert .
• OPPOSE  302 /  3 ( similar) – Government and Corporate Activism–as of 4/21/2023 HB 3 passed the House and Senate
• OPPOSE  170  /  1515 (similar) Suspends local ordinance if there is a lawsuit filed– –as of 4/21/2023 passed the Senate and a similar bill is on the House floor