House bill | Senate companion bill | a few words description or highlighting the most egregious part | status of HOUSE bill as of 3/15/2023 unless indicated otherwise | status of Senate bill as of 3/15/2023 unless indicated otherwise |
no house bill | 1316 | bloggers must register with the state if they get paid to criticize DeSantis et al | referred to 3 committees | |
1 | 202 | Provide universal vouchers to any Florida student including billionaires with very little accountability and no cap on the total dollars | Passed by the House | passed all its committees on 3/16/2023 |
3 | 302 | DeSantis’ efforts to force private banks to lend to his friends | Passed all committees as of 3/16/23 | referred to 2 committees |
7 | 300 | bans abortion at 6 weeks and abortion pills. It also gives dollars to fake clinics. | passed 1 committee, 1 to go as of 3/16/2023 | Health Policy committee 3/20/2023 at 3:30 pm |
31 | 94 | turn school-board elections into partisan races | passed all its committees | passed 1 committee, two to go |
305 | 222 | Doesn’t allow businesses to require vaccinations | referred to 4 committees | referred to 3 committees |
379 | 52 | CS SB 52 also includes this part of HB 379 beginning on line 202 : may authorize a teacher to withhold a student’s wireless communications device. CS SB 52 still doesn’t say this part of HB 379 beginning on line 77: Prohibit the use of the TikTok platform as a platform to communicate or promote any district school, school-sponsored club, extracurricular organization, or athletic team. | passed all its committees | passed 2 committees, 1 to go |
411 | 444 | revise the requirement so school board candidates have to live in the districts at the time they assume office rather than when they qualify | passed 2 committees, 1 to go | passed 1 committee, two to go |
443 | 986 | restricts what types of rules the sponsor may impose on charter schools; | referred to 3 committees | referred to 3 committees |
543 | similar 150 | eliminates requirement for a license to carry a gun in public | passed all committees | passed all committees |
931 | 958 | It seems to prohibit affirmative action hiring to achieve diversity. It requires a survey which many feared under DeSantis authoritarian regime would be used to target professors | passed 2 committees, 1 to go | referred to 3 committees |
991 | 1220 | Defamation includes claims that the plaintiff has discriminated against another person or group because of their race, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity and provides that journalist’s privilege does not apply to defamation claims. A statement by an anonymous source is presumptively false for purposes of a defamation action. Someone who sues a journalist and wins would get their legal costs covered. Meanwhile, if that person loses, the journalist would have to cover their own legal expenses. | passed 1 committee and 1 to go | referred to 2 committees |
999 | 266 | HB 999 instructs Florida’s Board of Governors to regularly examine the academic offerings at schools in the state university system to make sure there are no majors or minors in critical race theory, gender studies, intersectionality, or any related subjects. | passed 1 committee and 2 to go | passed 1 committee, two to go |
1069 | is similar to 1223 | passed 1 committee and 1 to go | see 1320 | |
1223 | 1320 | “Sex” means the classification of a person as either female or male based on the organization of the body for a specific reproductive role. A person’s sex is an immutable biological trait with certain exceptions, Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in prekindergarten kindergarten through grade 8. | passed 1 committee and 1 to go | On agenda for 3/20/23 |
1445 | 256 | harms the teachers union | passed 1 committee and 1 to go as of 3/16/2023 | Passed all committees as of 3/16/23 |
1543 | none as of 3/15/2023 | lowers age to buy long gun to 18 | passed 1 committee and 1 to go | none as of 3/15/2023 |
1607 | 1096 | Takes away a community’s right to remove Confederate monuments that glorify slavery. Monuments could be relocated but only to areas that have “similar prominence and access to the public” | referred to 3 committees | passed 1 committee and 2 to go as of 3/16/2023 |