Some gadgets that gained traction earlier than the March session started weren’t handed. Here’s a small record of legislative proposals that didn’t make it by way of the 2025 legislative session.
Minimize In Property Taxes
At the start of the session, Gov. Ron DeSantis needed the legislature to advance a measure to place an elimination of native property taxes on the 2026 Florida poll. GOP lawmakers mentioned no. Then the governor referred to as for $5 billion of state surplus for use to offer tax rebates within the quantity of $1,000 to householders. State GOP lawmakers additionally shot down that concept.
Deregulating Take a look at Necessities
A proposal that may have abolished some testing mandates to graduate for college students in public excessive faculties. That’s useless.
A measure to ask voters sure or no on the 2026 poll to require 8-year time period limits on county commissioners and college board members died within the Florida Senate.
Immigration.
A well-liked challenge amongst Republicans is that they assist the state implementing an E-Confirm system that may require small companies to carry out background checks on the present immigration standing when hiring people. If handed, corporations that didn’t observe state regulation would’ve been hit with heavy penalties. Didn’t occur. One other invoice that died within the Florida Senate.
Increasing Gun Rights.
Gun House owners of America (GOA) Florida Director Luis Valdez advised the Florida Day by day that he was optimistic some pro-gun measures would possibly transfer ahead on this 12 months’s legislature.
Nothing occurred. Gun rights invoice stalled in Senate committees. Motion to decrease the gun shopping for age again to 18 from 21 by no means noticed any mild.
Different gadgets that had been talked about however didn’t go wherever had been banning cellphones in faculties.
