Agree with Wayne, we need to keep targeting successive committee members.

Please help me understand. Where is the bill headed now and how can I best keep up with it?

I’ve sent scores of emails regarding sb 212; I like to target my communications to current and upcoming committees.

I understand the testimony is critical to voice and get on the record – and the speakers did an amazing job presenting facts.

These senators obviously have their minds made up and don’t care about listening and analyzing testimony.

Thanks!

RM is correct. So, no sex offender will be able to stay at any hotel in Florida that has a swimming pool unless your room is more than 200 feet away as the crow flies.

CS/SB 212 explicitly includes a prohibition on visiting or being within 200 feet of swimming pools at hotels and motels (see lines 72-73).

That is an interesting question as you use the fish, etc to feed yourself and your family while also possibly in commercial ways to support you and your family financially which should be asked of the elected official(s) for your district who will be debating this bill upstate.

Legislators don’t have to care whether the law they are about to pass is constitutional or not. They can be advised by those who know it won’t pass legal muster until they are blue in the face. They want the political cred that goes along with trying to make the world a better place in their minds regardless of the ex post facto matter involved. The law can be passed, signed by the gov, and then be restricted through a lawsuit upon being signed by the gov but they tried anyway which works for them when it comes to election season.

The AG and staff are on the state payroll so give them more work to do at taxpayer expense which in the end only delays real work for the taxpayer that needs to be done by the AG’s office. Since legislators are not impacted by the legal matter dealing with the new law, they’re immune from their lack of full considerations.

There have been enough legal challenges of laws passed that there should be enough accounting data to present showing the waste of time and money that those in the full Senate should see when deliberating the bill on the floor. Legislators will not be held financially accountable for their legislative and legal missteps like this, but they and the full Senate need to be made aware of their errors before they’re voted on by everyone. This is where the people need to demand the accounting data to present to their elected officials for their consideration in bringing to deliberations on the floor. Even AGs don’t like to lose cases unnecessarily that could’ve been avoided in the first place.

Hotel pools are private pools meaning they are reserved for their guests, not the public at large.