Sen. Gary M. Farmer, Jr.

Prohibited Reptiles; Prohibiting a person, party, firm, association, or corporation from keeping, possessing, importing, selling, bartering, trading, or breeding for personal use or sale for personal use green iguanas or black and white tegus; authorizing certain persons, parties, firms, associations, and corporations to possess green iguanas and black and white tegus for specified purposes, etc.

Strategic Fuel Reserve; Creating the Florida Strategic Fuel Reserve Task Force adjunct to the Division of Emergency Management to develop a recommended strategic fuel reserve plan for an emergency or disaster; requiring the division to provide administrative and support services to the task force; specifying the membership of the task force, etc.

Assault Weapons and Large-capacity Magazines; Prohibiting the sale or transfer of an assault weapon or large-capacity ammunition magazine; providing conditions for continued possession of such weapons or large-capacity ammunition magazines; requiring certificates of transfer for transfers of assault weapons or large-capacity magazines; providing for relinquishment of assault weapons or large-capacity magazines; providing enhanced criminal penalties for certain offenses when committed with an assault weapon or large-capacity magazine, etc.

Opposing India’s National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act; Reaffirming Florida as a welcoming state, expressing the Senate’s solidarity with Florida’s South Asian community, regardless of religion and caste, and opposing India’s National Register of Citizens and Citizenship Amendment Act, etc.

Safe Storage of Loaded Firearms; Revising the locations and circumstances in which a loaded firearm is required to be kept or secured with a trigger lock; deleting conditions that pertain to the crime of failing to safely store, leave, or secure a loaded firearm in a specified manner, etc.

Eye Care for Newborns and Infants; Requiring the Department of Health to create and make available electronically a pamphlet with specified information; requiring birth centers to provide the informational pamphlet to clients during postpartum care; requiring hospitals that provide birthing services to provide the informational pamphlet to parents during postpartum education, etc.

Death Penalty; Deleting provisions providing for the death penalty for capital felonies; repealing provisions relating to capital collateral representation and constitutionally deficient representation, respectively; deleting a public records exemption relating to capital collateral proceedings; deleting provisions relating to the effect of a declaration by a court of last resort that the death penalty in a capital felony is unconstitutional, etc.

Legislative Preemption; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require a supermajority of each house to approve a general law preempting a subject of legislation to the state, etc.