This is not over: 2019 Legislative Session Report | ACLU of Florida | We defend the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Florida, by working through the legislature, the courts and in the streets.

July 29, 2019

61 days. That’s how long the 2019 Florida Legislative Session lasted, and by the time it was over, the Florida Legislature undid years of progress on civil liberties and civil rights.

Read our 2019 Legislative Report

2019 Legislative Session Scorecard

This year, voting rights, immigrants’ rights, and our broken criminal justice system were among the most high-profile issues considered by the Legislature.

With strong support from Governor Ron DeSantis, the legislature passed anti-civil liberties bills that will:

Tear families apart and codify racial profiling into law
Restrict Amendment 4 and bar hundreds of thousands of Floridians from voting
Exacerbate the school to prison pipeline
And, divert taxpayer dollars from public school education to fund private religious schools.

See how your legislature voted during the 2019 Legislative Session