The House and Senate passed approximately 300 bills out of the 3,685 bills introduced in both houses.

The staff has started to send the bills to the Governor for his signature.

Examples of controversial bills already signed by the Governor as of March 20th:

• SB 520–Makes it easier for the Governor to get his chosen one picked to be the University President by making the candidates secret until 21 days prior to hiring.
• SB 1048-Creates more testing in the charter, neighborhood, and magnet schools–watch to see who gets the vending contract
• SB 1658–Gives more power to the Governor to appoint the directors of the Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Environmental Protection. Excerpt about SB 1658 from article:

A new law (SB 1658) signed by DeSantis this month will change the process for replacing Swearingen. The law changed the appointment of the FDLE commissioner from needing the approval of all three Cabinet members to a majority vote of the governor and the Cabinet, with the governor on the prevailing side. The appointment will still need Senate approval. The law was crafted after a clash last year between DeSantis and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried over DeSantis’ decision to appoint a new secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection without Cabinet approval. Fried, a Democrat running for governor this year, issued a statement Friday that said she respects Swearingen but suggested his departure wasn’t a “coincidence” after approval of the new law, which effectively boosted DeSantis’ power in the appointment process.

As of March 20th, a few of the controversial bills the Governor hasn’t signed yet:

• HB 5– Bans abortions 15 weeks from your last period
• HB 7–Allows people to sue their employer or school if they were made to feel uncomfortable because of their sex or race
• HB 225–Allows new charter schools to merge with old charter schools to escape the two year waiting period to get our local (sales surtax and proporty) tax dollars
• HB 395–More propaganda to demonize a communal economic system rather than demonizing totalitarian governments
• SB 758-Makes it clear that the state legislators who voted yes on this bill want to expand charter schools in Florida. It also requires that impact fees can go to private investor owned facilities housing charter schools.
• SB 1078–Creates qualifications for the supervisors for each soil and water conservation district. It requires that the candidate be actively engaged in, or retired after 10 years of being engaged in, agriculture as defined in s. 570.02; or employed by an agricultural producer; or owns, leases, or is actively employed on land classified as agricultural under s. 193.461.
• HB 1557–This is the bill dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It also allows parents to sue the schools run by the locally elected school boards but apparently not the charter or voucher funded private schools for similar failures to notify parents of service changes.
• SB 1796–Bans life time alimony from divorce settlements and makes the rule retroactive regardless of previous divorce settlement contracts.
• SB 7044-Harms the public university system by making tenure less secure and not allowing the university to pick the most prestigious accreditation organization.