Legislative Bills
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2021 FL State Session Bills
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Session Year | Bill # | |
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Restrict Abortions to 20 weeks |
2021 State Support |
2021 January 13th: First opportunity to participate in pro-life legislation for the 2021 Florida Session. |
2020 FL State Session Bills
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Session Year | Bill # | |
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2020 Legislative Updates- Florida Family |
2020 State |
Week 9 of Week 9 The final week of session is usually filled with emotional farewells for legislators who are leaving because they are termed out after serving eight years. The Speaker of the House and the Senate President get to see their portraits unveiled and enter the history of past leaders on the walls of the legislative chambers. |
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Abortion- Parental Consent |
2020 State Support |
265-House 404-Senate |
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Heartbeat Bill |
2020 State Support |
HB 271 |
Oct 14: In Health Quality (waiting to be put on the calendar) Oct 1: General Bill by Hill (CO-SPONSORS) Hage; Sabatini |
Medical Use of Marijuana in Schools |
2020 State Oppose |
SB-720 |
Medical Use of Marijuana in Schools; Authorizing a qualified patient to designate more than one caregiver to assist with the qualified patient’s medical use of marijuana under certain circumstances; authorizing a county-designated caregiver to register as a caregiver for more than one qualified patient under certain circumstances; providing a procedure for a parent of a student who is a qualified patient to request that marijuana be administered to the student during the school day; requiring that a caregiver or a county-designated caregiver administering marijuana to the student do so in the area the school principal designates, etc. |
Federal Bills
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Session Year | Bill # | |
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Federal Born Alive |
2019 Federal Support |
HB-962SB311 |
![]() This bill establishes requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must exercise in the event a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion...We have 2 years ( 4/2/2019 until 4/2/2021) to get 218 Congress members to sign. |
HR-490 Heartbeat Bill- FEDERAL |
2017 Federal Support |
Update on who has signed On Thursday, February 16, 2017: Congressman Steve King released the stunning Barna poll results on the U.S. House Floor which reveal that seven out of ten in America support HR 490, the federal Heartbeat Bill, to protect every child whose heartbeat can be heard. As of July 13, 2017 138 House Reps. had signed the bill
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Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020 |
2019 Federal Oppose |
H.R.2740 |
Nov 3 2019- in Senate- If passed, it would have increased funding for pro-abortion organizations, such as the U.N. Population Fund, which supports China’s authoritarian policies of forced abortions and sterilizations. Furthermore, adding this poison pill amendment to the funding bill was a clear violation of the budget agreement reached between Republicans and Democrats in August. |
Lower Drug Costs Now (Government Price Control of Prescription Drugs) |
2019 Federal Oppose |
HR 3 |
The first price control would set an upper limit for drug prices that would be equal to 1.2 times the cost of a drug’s average price in six specified countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom). |
SAFE Banking Act (H.R. 1595/S. 1200) |
2020 Federal Oppose |
HR 1595 S 1200 |
SAFE Banking Act = VAPE Banking Act : Notes from SAM Overview |
Previous Session Bills
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Session Year | Bill # | |
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2019 Session Summary |
2019 State |
2019 Summary Session- Action Alert: |
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2019 Florida Parental Consent for Abortion |
2019 State Support |
HB-1335 SB-1774 |
'Compare' Bills- House: Reclassifies criminal offense for specified violation; requires physician to obtain notarized written consent of parent or legal guardian before inducing or performing termination of pregnancy of minor; provides exceptions to consent requirement; provides criminal penalties. 4-28-2019 Bill has been stalled - not heard in committee ACTION ALERTS SENT OUT |
2019 Medical Use of Marijuana |
2019 State Support |
HB-7117 |
Basically limits daily dose amounts & THC content. Moved in House but seems to be 'laid' on the table in the Senate. Locally, Rep. Ben Diamond voted against this bill. |
Florida's Abortion- (Heartbeat Bill) |
2019 State Support |
HB-235 SB-792 |
![]() IDENTICAL Abortion: Requiring a physician to perform an examination for, and inform a woman obtaining an abortion of the presence of, a detectable fetal heartbeat; requiring the physician to review the results of such examination with the patient before the woman gives informed consent for the abortion procedure; requiring that a woman who declines to review the results certify in writing that she did so of her own free will and without undue influence, etc. |
HB-482 Prohibit Discrimination (read between the lines) |
2019 State Oppose |
HB 482 |
2019 Last Event: Died in Civil Justice Subcommittee on Friday, May 3, 2019 11:59 PM From Florida Family Policy: Why we oppose- (TALKING POINTS) |
Tobacco Act 21 |
2019 State Support |
SB-1618 |
Tobacco and Nicotine Products; Citing this act as the "Tobacco 21 Act"; preempting the establishment of the minimum age for the sale or delivery of tobacco products, nicotine products, or nicotine dispensing devices to the state; revising the age under which it is unlawful to smoke in, on, or near school property; defining the terms “the minimum age for purchase” and “any person under the minimum age for purchase”; providing that it is unlawful to sell or deliver tobacco products to persons u |