This bill would designate the American flamingo as the state bird and the Florida scrub-jay as the state songbird, replacing the mockingbird. This takes effect on July 1, 2025.

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This bill bans cloud seeding and chemtrail activities by prohibiting atmospheric alteration via chemicals.

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This bill imposes strict penalties on individuals who engage in the sale, manufacture, delivery, or possession with the intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver xylazine. This aligns xylazine with other high-risk drugs like fentanyl and its analogs, ensuring that individuals handling such substances face severe legal consequences.

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This bill allows Florida candidates to use campaign funds for child care linked to campaign activities. It mandates record-keeping for 3 years and reporting of such expenses in finance reports, effective July 1, 2025.

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This bill mandates background checks for ammunition sales, limits transaction types, and highlights mental health records' impact on firearm rights, with measures for data protection and compliance.

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This bill expands firefighter cancer benefits to include conditions like acute myeloid leukemia, ensures treatment cost coverage, and provides retirement and death benefits for affected firefighters.

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This bill revises Florida's windstorm insurance rules, particularly affecting Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. It implements emergency assessments on insurers and policyholders to cover financial shortfalls after hurricanes. Premiums for hurricane and other property coverages must be separated for transparency and fairness. Rate reductions incentivize windstorm mitigation efforts like improved construction techniques.

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This bill preempts regulatory authority over presidential libraries to the state and federal governments, prohibiting local regulations. It defines "presidential library" per federal standards, effective immediately.

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This bill changes the rules for out-of-state tuition waivers, removing benefits for undocumented students.

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This bill revises compensation laws for wrongful incarceration by removing disqualifications for those with violent felony records, expanding eligibility significantly. The bill provides $50,000 per year for wrongful imprisonment and educational benefits. It also requires offsets for previous settlements or judgments, mandates annuity payment to prevent liquidation, and ensures expungement fee waivers.

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The Florida legislative bill mandates that employers in outdoor sectors like agriculture and construction implement safety programs to prevent heat illnesses. Requirements include providing 1 quart of water per hour for employees, access to shaded areas when temperatures exceed 80°F, and high-heat procedures at 90°F. Annual training is mandatory to educate on heat illness signs and prevention. These provisions aim to enhance worker safety.

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This bill mandates secure handgun storage in private vehicles and vessels to combat rising theft. It requires handguns to be locked or in secure cases, out of sight, particularly from minors. Counties are tasked with enacting penalties for parents if minors acquire guns from vehicles. This law aims to enhance safety and reduce juvenile gun access, supported by public campaigns for awareness.

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The bill amends U.S. law to require federal agencies to list outdated or duplicative reporting requirements in budget justifications, aiming to streamline governmental processes.

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The bill proposes to eliminate existing medical debts through a grant program prioritized for safety net hospitals, aiming to alleviate financial burdens on low-income and vulnerable populations.

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The act seeks to address judicial understaffing by authorizing the appointment of additional district judges to manage increasing case filings in U.S. district courts. Since no new permanent district court judgeships have been established since 2003, the bill proposes creating these positions to alleviate the growing backlog, which by 2023, included 686,797 pending cases. The act stipulates a phased appointment schedule from 2025 to 2035, incrementally adding judges to various districts nationwide. Additionally, it involves financial appropriations for implementing these changes and mandates comprehensive reports evaluating courthouse utilization and judicial caseloads to ensure efficiency.

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This bill authorizes funding levels and sets priorities for the United States military for the next fiscal year, ending on September 30, 2025, dealing both directly with American forces and the alliances the United States has with nations around the world.

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This continuing resolution would keep the government open until March 14, averting a government shutdown during the holidays. It contains disaster aid requested by the Biden Administration and provides aid to farmers, and otherwise mostly preserves the status quo.

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This bill aims to modernize and optimize the geothermal leasing process to promote faster and more efficient development of these resources.

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The bill aims to ensure that recipients of certain grants under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 outline plans for addressing discriminatory land use policies. It requires documentation of existing policies and strategies for implementation, focusing on various zoning changes to promote affordable housing. These include measures such as increasing zoning for multifamily units, reducing parking requirements, and allowing higher density developments.

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The bill aims to restrict civil actions impacted by U.S. sanctions. It underscores U.S. policy commitments to protecting Americans from legal disadvantages due to compliance with U.S. sanctions. The legislation prohibits civil claims in federal court if they arise from actions affected by U.S. sanctions that interfere with contract performance and were enacted post-contract execution.

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This bill aims to develop and distribute a civic education curriculum and oral history resources in the U.S. The curriculum is intended to educate high school students on the negative impact of communism, highlighting its history of leading to over 100 million deaths and its current impact on 1.5 billion people.

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The bill seeks to reauthorize previous conservation legislation and make amendments to extend various programs until 2030. It introduces provisions for wildlife enhancement, including the establishment of a black vulture livestock protection program and extending the Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force.

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This bill aims to improve veterans' healthcare and benefits. It touches on topics such as Veterans Community Care Program, nursing home care, mental health services, and the VA's health information standards. The bill also addresses educational assistance, employment training, and home loans for veterans.

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This bill seeks to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to manage the Federal Government's Bitcoin holdings, enhancing financial leadership and security through digital asset diversification. It outlines that Bitcoin can serve as a modern digital asset akin to gold reserves, strengthening national financial resilience.

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This bill mandates federal agencies to analyze single audit quality and conduct reviews every few years. The bill also requires the development of analytic tools to use audit data to identify risks to federal award funds and outlines a process for reporting and strategy development to mitigate these risks. Furthermore, it stipulates that no additional funds will be appropriated to implement these changes.

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This bill, also known as the BOLIVAR Act, aims to prohibit U.S. executive agencies from contracting with persons who have significant business operations with the Maduro regime in Venezuela, not recognized as legitimate by the U.S. Exceptions are made for contracts necessary for humanitarian aid, disaster relief, noncombatant evacuations, national security interests, and maintaining U.S. government facilities in Venezuela. Contracts are also exempt if the entity has a valid license from the Office of Foreign Assets Control or relates to U.S. diplomatic missions in Venezuela. The Secretary of State can waive these prohibitions if deemed in the national interest.

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The bill aims to extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to 2026. It includes amendments for the secure payments and distribution of those payments to eligible counties, extending the authority for conducting special projects on federal land to December 2026 and strikes certain dates to update them to 2028 and 2029 for expenditure of county funds. Additionally, it introduces a pilot program allowing regional foresters to appoint members to resource advisory committees and extends a program's authority until October 1, 2028.

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This bill aims to expand reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all individuals claiming unemployment benefits. An amendment to the Social Security Act is suggested, replacing references to "individuals" with "claimants" for unemployment compensation. This change ensures that all unemployment benefit claimants, including those referred to reemployment services, are covered under the proposed act.

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This bill requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse the estates of deceased beneficiaries for benefits that were misused by fiduciaries. The amendment involves redesignating current subsections and inserting a new provision for reissuing misused benefits. It outlines a specific order for repayment: first to the estate of the beneficiary, then to a successor fiduciary, and finally to the next inheritor as determined by a court, excluding any fiduciaries who misused the benefits.

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This bill proposes replacing the existing Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) with a new formula designed to equalize Social Security benefits for individuals with earnings from noncovered employment, addressing disparities faced by public servants. The primary objective is to create a formula that computes an individual's primary insurance amount by incorporating their noncovered work earnings. The formula considers average indexed monthly earnings and adjusts them as if all noncovered earnings were classified as wages under Social Security regulations. An additional feature includes a supplementary monthly payment for individuals whose benefits are reduced due to the WEP, set at $100 for eligible recipients and $50 for others receiving benefits based on an eligible individual’s income. This aims to minimize the financial impact for those affected by WEP reductions.

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