UPDATE 3- Senate Bill 234-Video of Rules Committee Meeting
Watch video of Senate Rules Committee meeting in which SB 234 was on the agenda, and despite numerous objections, the bill passed the Rules Committee. You can watch the video here, starting at 1:19.
https://www.flsenate.gov/media/videoplayer?EventID=1_3wpkrnbb-202103040900&Redirect=true
THANK YOU FOR SENDING YOUR APPEARANCE CARD – WITH UNITY COMES CHANGE,
We have a member representing FAC today in opposition of the SB 234, as is, and will strongly suggest an accurate definition of “a day”. Approximately 200 appearance cards will also be delivered to the meeting in opposition of SB 234, as is.
Senate Bill 234 will be heard by the Senate Rules Committee this Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 9:00-11:00 A.M.
This bill will redefine the meaning of “day” to include “part of any calendar day”. FAC has submitted a letter in opposition to the Bill which you can read here: Letter to Rules RE SB234. Additionally, we plan to have a member speak before the meeting.
We are calling on all members to contact the members of the Senate Rules Committee by calling and emailing them via the information below, and asking them to OPPOSE SB 234. Please remember to be polite and professional. Remember, they (absent Senator Book) were not the one introducing this bill, they are considering it, so be mindful of that when communicating with them.
You can also fill out an appearance card and waive speaking against the bill.
- Open this Sample SB 234 Committee Appearance Form: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/sample-sb234-committee-appearance-form/
- Enter your name, job title, address, email and phone
- Save (Download with your changes) the completed form with your name in the filename: example AnnaK.pdf
- Email completed form to: [email protected]
The blank appearance card can be printed from here: https://www.flsenate.gov/UserContent/Committees/CommitteeAppearanceForm.pdf. Please make sure you have the date of the meeting (March 4, 2021), the Bill Number (SB 234), all your contact information, that you waive speaking AGAINST the bill. If using the blank form, scan and email a copy to [email protected].
We must receive your form by 5:00 pm Wednesday March 3 so that we can present it in Tallahassee on March 4, 2021.
| CHAIR: Senator Kathleen Passidomo (R) | (850) 487-5028 | [email protected] |
| VICE CHAIR: Senator Ileana Garcia (R) | (850) 487-5037 | [email protected] |
| Senator Ben Albritton (R) | (850) 487-5026 | [email protected] |
| Senator Dennis Baxley (R) | (850) 487-5012 | [email protected] |
| Senator Aaron Bean (R) | (850) 487-5004 | [email protected] |
| Senator Lauren Book (D) | (850) 487-5032 | [email protected] |
| Senator Randolph Bracy (D) | (850) 487-5011 | [email protected] |
| Senator Jeff Brandes (R) | (850) 487-5024 | [email protected] |
| Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R) | (850) 487-5036 | [email protected] |
| Senator Gary M. Farmer, Jr. (D) | (850) 487-5034 | [email protected] |
| Senator Audrey Gibson (D) | (850) 487-5006 | [email protected] |
| Senator Joe Gruters (R) | (850) 487-5023 | [email protected] |
| Senator Travis Hutson (R) | (850) 487-5007 | [email protected] |
| Senator Debbie Mayfield (R) | (850) 487-5017 | [email protected] |
| Senator Bobby Powell (D) | (850) 487-5030 | [email protected] |
| Senator Kelli Stargel (R) | (850) 487-5022 | [email protected] |
| Senator Perry E. Thurston, Jr. (D) | (850) 487-5033 | [email protected] |
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Short of moving all registrants to lifetime electronic monitoring (which I believe this “bill” is laying the groundwork for), what is FDLE’s plan for enforcing it? Some county registration offices aren’t open more than 3 days a week, let alone 5 or 7.
Registrants will now be required to register the car circle they use to drop/pickup their kids from school each day? Every house and road they use to walk their dogs each morning? The roads they travel on to go to work? Local retail stores? Airport parking garages that they use when traveling on business? There is no end to this based on the language of this bill. The collateral consequences for registrants — and their families/friends — on this one when it passes are disastrous.
I feel terrible for Senator Book — or anyone who has been sexually abused (or abused, period) — as a child or adult. I’m certain her story and mine are similar; the only difference being that I haven’t dedicated my life to ostracizing a (rapidly growing) segment of society who — for whatever reason — find themselves ensnared in the registry’s web. Instead of pushing others down, I actually try to lift them “up” because that’s what LEADERS do, not BULLIES.
Side note: What roads are used by Senator Book’s (multiple offense) DUI-father driving these days? For the sake of public safety, our children — and adults, for that matter — need to know.
Sheriffs will enforce this bill via monitoring and arrests. No differently than they have enforced other provisions previously thought unenforceable.
Excellent post by Anonymous.
If only we were ruder and nastier to lawmakers, they’d be persuaded to pass legislation more favorable to us.
Kidding, y’all.
Some lawmakers welcome nastiness from members of unpopular causes. They believe that helps their re-election campaign. Do we wish to help them?
The chairwoman as well as the rest of these people in the senate of FL are obviously very rude. You will not get anywhere with these idiots.
When is someone going to grow a pair and ask Prissy Pants Book what all these laws did for her with a nanny who had NO PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORD but yet committed the crime against her?
We are no longer living in the 1950’s. Language in these types of hearings has changed since the prim and proper era. Someone grow a pair and ask her what these laws do for anyone and if the nanny that was raising her had to follow any of them with no prior criminal record.
No amount of money or titles will make anything more than the one dimensional person she is. You simply can’t buy class or a soul.
We laid the groundwork for an injunction. That’s what we accomplished today.
Swaying elected officials’ votes was not going to happen, and that’s fine, we’ll see ‘em in court.
P.S. thank you FAC Legislative and Membership Committees and all volunteers. Never give up.
Agreed 1000% and that’s what will happen.
Please put the “fund meter” up so I can donate to support the legal challenge. Thank you.
How did we lay the groundwork for an injunction?
Why do we bother with letters, calls, emails, appearance cards, and even testimony if they accomplish no changes in the bills we are fighting?
I would really like to know.
Seeing them in court will take years and thousands of dollars.
I don’t like being the pessimist, but I’m trying to keep it real.
We show there was opposition.
Notice
Won’t take years. Our internet challenge didn’t. We can request an emergency injunction before the law even takes effect.
Correct
Even with the [reluctant] reading of over 70 appearance cards against the bill, and a FAC speaker [who was rudely cut off] explaining the pitfalls of “any part of a day” being called a day, no committee members were swayed.
I have to question how Book can state that this has been the definition of a day for “over two decades” without citing a reference. We have references which state Floriduh’s legal definition of a day. Why weren’t they spoken of?
This was the last committee before this bill is voted on by all senators. I can’t help but feel we may have missed an opportunity to influence the outcome of this bill.
Yes it is disappointing, but we must not back down, even though our turn at bat has a biased umpire calling the swings, swing we must. Even in the face of a defeat we must keep believing!
I wrote a post this morning on another thread. I would like to share it on this one.
It seems, by a conversation I had with FAC that a lot of folks who post are not members, and that’s alright.
But they get a lot of advice, about what FAC should do. And some of it is good some not so good. FAC wants to do more but it often comes down to what I call the PEST.
People, not enough willing.
Economy, not enough funding.
Space, like offices, goes back to E
Time, goes back to P.
If every poster were a member and gave a little bit of the above there would be no PEST!
A few carriers the load, and grows weary. But more carriers a little bit and all accomplish more.
Just thinking
Sailtime
I agree!
With all fairness , I would like to point out that the FAC speaker screwed up a tad when she told the chairwoman to “let me finish”. I feel she was being a little too aggressive trying to make the point, and I was smh…with that being said. The whole opposition process is deliberately intimidating with the way the room is set up and the aura of the room. Not to mention the state Capitol is in the uppermost part of this state. The attitude of TALLAHASSEE is not representative of the entire state, but rather a small. Extremely conservative area. If only the Capitol was located in the central part of the state we would have a fighting chance.
I called all the senators except the last three.. I am waiting for my courage to build back up!! Lol.. Anyways, I did notice on the answering machines before I left a message they all typically said their name with a period inbetween and then a .web before the @flsenate.gov please look into this.. I would hate all the emails to be not delivered based off of a technicality.. Ex. [email protected]
Duane is correct. Here’s the Senate Directory:
https://flsenate.gov/PublishedContent/ADMINISTRATIVEPUBLICATIONS/sdir.pdf
Both work, but I’ll update.