2019 Legislative Session Priorities
Standing up for our rights during the Florida Legislative Session
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization and freedom's watchdog in the Sunshine State.
The 2019 Legislative Session officially began on March 5, 2019, and ends sixty-days later on May 3, 2019.
During this Legislative Session we will be working on a broad range of issues including, but not limited to: criminal justice, free speech, reproductive freedom, immigrants’ rights, and LGBTQ rights.
Do you want to help protect civil rights and civil liberties in Florida? Check out our Legislative Advocacy Toolkit, sign up to receive email updates and action alerts, volunteer with us, and return to this web page regularly to stay up to date on our legislative priorities in 2019.
We are monitoring hundreds of bills that span the breadth of the ACLU’s policy concerns. Below is a representative sample of several of the bills that have been filed that we will be actively working on throughout this legislative session. The list includes bills that we will proactively attempt to pass and those that we will actively defend against. This list is not all-inclusive, and instead is a representative sample of bills that either pose significant threats to civil rights and civil liberties, or that create opportunities to advance constitutional and civil rights.
Standing up for our rights during the Florida Legislative Session
On behalf of more than 130,000 members and supporters statewide, we're calling upon all Florida legislators to protect the civil rights and liberties of all Floridians.
The ACLU of Florida supports HB 49 and SB 332: Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act.
The ACLU of Florida supports passage of HB 397 and SB 334: Remove Employment Barriers for People with Past Convictions.
The ACLU of Florida supports SB 876 / HB 575, ending the practice of charging youth as adults in Florida.
The ACLU of Florida supports Senate Bill 394: Criminal Records in Applications.