Endangered or Threatened Marine Animals; Prohibits collection & transportation of endangered or threatened marine animals from state waters; prohibits FWCC from issuing, renewing, or approving certain licenses.
Health Care Autonomy; Establishes fundamental right to reproductive health care; provides that every individual has fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about individual's own reproductive health; provides that individuals who become pregnant have fundamental right to make certain decisions in exercise of such right; prohibits state from denying or interfering with individual's right to access reproductive health care; prohibits state & local law enforcement agencies & officials from harassing or discriminating against individual for providing or obtaining reproductive health care or assisting another person in doing so; prohibits such state & local entities from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against individual for exercising specified rights, or against individual for assisting another in exercising such rights; provides individuals with immunity from civil liability for exercising specified rights or aiding or assisting another in exercising such rights; provides that fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under laws of this state; prohibits local units of government from regulating individual's ability to exercise right to reproductive health care in manner more restrictive than that set forth in specified provisions.
Elections; Requires that Secretary of State be elected, rather than appointed, & serve specified term; requires Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop & maintain database for specified purpose; provides that driver license or ID card applications, driver license or ID card renewal applications, & applications for changes of address for existing driver licenses or ID cards submitted to DHSMV serve as voter registration applications; requires DHSMV to transmit voter registration information electronically to DOS within specified timeframe; removes provision prohibiting persons providing voter registration services for driver license office from making changes to applicant's party affiliation without applicant's consent & separate signature; revises certain penalties; provides circumstances used to determine whether elections in local government exhibit racially polarized voting; authorizes party that sent notification letter to submit claim for reimbursement from local government; authorizes specified entities to file certain enforcement actions; creates Florida Voting Rights Act Commission within DOS; requires DOS instead of Office of Election Crimes & Security to conduct certain preliminary investigation; establishes General Election Day as paid holiday.
U-visa Certification Policy; Specifies duties of certifying officials from certifying agencies concerning certification forms in support of U-visa applications; provides rebuttable presumption; requires certifying official from certifying agency that denies certification to provide petitioner with specified written notice; requires certifying agencies to grant or deny requests for certifications within specified timeframes; authorizes applicants to petition circuit court if certifying agency fails to respond within those timeframes; prohibits certifying agencies & certifying officials from disclosing immigration status of victims or persons seeking certification; provides initial & annual reporting requirements; provides immunity for certifying officials; specifies duties of certifying agencies.
Maddy summaryHB 6019 repeals Florida Statute § 741.212, which previously contained provisions related to marriages between persons of the same sex. This bill removes a legal barrier that no longer aligns with current marriage laws, as same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Florida since 2015. The repeal takes effect on July 1, 2026, and directly affects the state’s legal code by eliminating outdated language without changing marriage eligibility or rights. The bill is currently in committee review and does not create new policy.
Continuity of Care in Health Insurance Contracts; Requires that contracts between individual health insurer, group, blanket, or franchise health insurer & HMO & contracted health care practitioner require specified notice to affected policyholders & subscribers before cancellation or termination of contracts; provides administrative penalties; requires health insurer, HMO & health care practitioner to allow certain policyholders & subscribers to continue coverage & care for specified timeframe; requires insurer & health care practitioner to be bound by terminated contract.
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico; Urges United States Congress to establish end date for Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico.
Descendants and Estates of Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas; Provides that certain facts are found & declared to be true; provides that sum is appropriated from General Revenue Fund to DOS for specified relief; provides that specified persons are ineligible for further compensation. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate
Exceptional Students and Video Cameras in Public Schools; Removes references to Video Cameras in Public School Classrooms Pilot Program; requires district school board to establish specified policy relating to video cameras in self-contained classrooms; prohibits concealment of certain employee identities in video recording; & provides that video recording made available after request must include accompanying audio.
Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; Requires private schools participating in FES Program to provide specified information in writing to certain parents before their student's initial enrollment in school; & provides private school requirements relating to certain services.
