What the legislators from the Jax region propose, with the legislative meeting of Florida 2025

Legislators in northeast florida submitted more than 100 draft cases before the legislative period 2025 on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.

The legislation of the Jacksonville Area representatives deals with a broad swath of questions, including single -family houses; the restriction and promotion of diversity, justice and inclusion programs at the local level; the real estate insurance crisis; Pedestrian security in school zones; historical condition; And localized parts of President Donald Trump's political positions.

The Republicans are once again entering the session in 2025 with supermajories in the house and the Senate, control over the governor and all nationwide offices. In the house, the GOP 86 of the 120 seats of the chamber contains. The Republicans are 28-11 members of the Democrats in the Senate.

Regan McCarthy, director of the WFSU Public Media Assistant, reported for more than a decade about the legislature of Florida in Tallahasee. She says that the GOP supermajories will ensure that the Republicans control the agenda and that the Democrats who want to achieve a legislative achievement will be left closely.

“Republicans are really the people who control what we see from this session this year,” says McCarthy. “My eye is on the things that I think will happen most likely [and] are most likely to put on laws that will affect our audience. And these will generally be things that are presented by the Republican legislators. “

Florida Legislature Trump orientation

According to McCarthy, the legislative package for the illegal enforcement of immigration, which was approved during a special meeting in January and February, could be intended for the GOP legislator in Florida in the next two months: Crossover with the guidelines of President Donald Trump.

Senate Bill 608, introduced by Senator Nick Diceglie, R-St. Petersburg would change references from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” ​​across state statutes.

The MP Dean Black and Senator Clay Yarborough, both Republicans from Jacksonville, submitted identical legal templates, HB 1571 and SB 420Present This would prevent governments at the state level, to create or adopt DEI-related resolutions, regulations, regulations or programs with punishments.

“This special session really taught us that legislators, legislative leaders and republican leaders really work to show their willingness and possibly even an excitement to match the Trump government,” said McCarthy.

Suggestions such as the Law on DEI programs by Yarborough-Black are an example of a trend of Florida's legislature in recent years to present local control over the governments of the district and the city in Florida.

“I think that preliminary is something that we have repeatedly appeared over the years in which I have treated the legislator. I think we will continue to see the presentation now, ”says McCarthy. “One thing that is interesting is that we often talk about the government closest to the people is the government, which is most likely to have the greatest influence on their daily life. And I think that's true, but … If these pioneer calculations progress, the effects that the state government and not our local government actually increase. “

From Jacksonville to Tallahassee:

Here is a sample of invoices that the legislators in the Jacksonville region sponsors in the region of this meeting:

• Rep. Sam Greco, R-St. Augustine and Senator Tom Leek, R-Aormond Beach, submitted Twin Bills HB 717 And SB 582 To prevent real estate owners from tearing down historical structures. Due to the legislation, Code Enforcement Boards or Special Magistrate would be a fine of up to 20% of the fair or only market value of a property for pulling a structure that is listed in the national register for historical places or is considered a “contributing resource” for a national tab, if the demolition was not or the result of a natural disaster.
• Rep. Dean Black, R-Jacksonville, submitted HB 1217 This tightens the requirements for the public unions of the state and local government and collective bargaining in order to obtain certification and recertification by demanding the majority of workers in the negotiation unit. The current state law only obliges that the Union receive a majority of employees who vote in the certification or recertification elections. There is a carver for the police unions, fire brigade, emergency and public security. Senator Randy Fine, R-Brevard County, submitted a similar draft to the Senate. SB 1328.
• Black also sponsors co-sponsorship HB 401 With Rep. Berny Jacques, R-Seminole, the counties and cities would make it possible to designate packages especially for single-family-oriented, owner-inhabited houses and for apartment buildings. The draft law states that it intends to promote and strengthen residential property in Florida.
• Senator Jennifer Bradley, R-Fleming Island, has submitted two invoices to protect property owners who navigate the fighting real estate insurance market in Florida. SB 790 If insurers would forbid to cancel the guideline cover for the real estate damaged by hurricanes until repair. The second, SB 792would request the Office for Insurance Regulation to create annual reports for the legislator and the governor who evaluates the strength of ownership insurers against crime and other factors.
• MP Angie Nixon and Senator Tracie Davis, both Democrats from Jacksonville, want to offer homeowners access to direct financial support in order to facilitate the costs of real estate insurance. HB 959 And SB 1044 Would use state reserves or united funds of 500 million US dollars to create an emergency fund for residential property insurance for homeowners who can prove financial needs and have a household income of $ 250,000 or less.

Space for cross -party

It is a difficult political climate for the Democrats, but McCarthy says that legislators in the minorities of the house and the Senate will search for areas of non -partisanity and compromises.

On the one hand: Bradley, Davis and Yarbrough also sponsored this session, which would reverse a law of 2023, which obliges the middle and universities to start school days later.

McCarthy also expects the legislator to respond to the mothers' traffic desert in Florida and the maternal mortality rate as well as the results by increasing access to Doula services and increasing the training requirements for people who enter this area.

Desantis' changing influence

The latest legislative meetings showed fissures in Governor Ron Desantis' Sway about the GOP legislator, when they override a household veto by the governor of 2024 and opened their own special session in order to eliminate the proposed illegal immigration laws.

Although the leaders of the Republican House and the Senate and the Governor achieved an immigration agreement, McCarthy is to see the extent to which the concept of desantis that will leave the office in January 2027.

“I think it was very fascinating to see what happened during the special session when the legislators definitely let us know that they were not ready to participate as they could have done in the past,” said McCarthy.

The traces of this debate still show up, she said. The spokesman for the House, Danny Perez, R-Mami, founded working groups that deal with some of the governor's budget vetos.

And I think that this is just another signal that, although they agreed to immigration legislation, they still say: “Hey, we are not regulations here in the house and in the Senate and we are not necessarily ready to say:” Ok, you are the governor. We will do what you say. '”