Source: floridaactioncommittee.org 1/15/26
[ACSOL encourages everyone to make some calls to fight this insanity]
HB 45 and SB 212 are dangerous, extreme, and counterproductive. SB 212 would banish more than 30,000 Floridians from “being” within 200 feet of a body of water and both bills would make 80% of Florida uninhabitable, displacing thousands of families from their homes and causing thousands to lose stable employment. These bills undermine public safety by increasing homelessness, instability, unemployment, and monitoring challenges.
The bills will:
- Push thousands into homelessness by making the majority of Florida off-limits for housing.
- Prevent tens of thousands of individuals from ever going to a beach, fishing in a lake or “being” near waterways or swimming pools for life.
- Make supervision harder and reduce public safety.
- Increase the financial burden on Florida through higher incarceration and enforcement expenses and mass unemployment.
- Risk a certain constitutional challenge.
- Do absolutely nothing to meaningfully prevent abuse or protect children!
- Evidence is clear: residency restrictions and banishment do not reduce re-offending. They increase instability, homelessness, unemployment and risk.
The Florida Action Committee urges you to contact Florida legislators and urge them to VOTE NO on CS/HB 45 and CS/SB 212.
Protect children through education, prevention, …
DON’T BE INTIMATED by the long list of senators and representatives shown at the bottom of he FAC page instructions.
Try this and it will only take a few minutes: I picked a few from each list and made the calls. I just said I wanted to make a comment on some bills, told them which ones, and asked them to oppose them. I got a polite response. Some even thanked me for letting them know about these shortsighted bills.
Thanks for helping our Florida registrants!
Last I saw (about a year ago), out of Florida’s 70k registrants, 40k of them were either dead, incarcerated, or have left the state. Both numbers are likely higher now.
Funny how they want to kick registrants out of the state, yet still keep them registered.
Funny how they banish registrants from residing pretty much anywhere anyway, then complain that there are too many registrants in the areas they can reside in.
Is there a lick of sense in the Florida State Congress?
What in tarnation!?! 200 feet from “a body of water.” That’s the most punitive thing i have ever heard.
On the bright side, a person registered in Floriduh need not worry about coming into contact with alligators