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Learn about our specific legislative goals pertaining to our various areas of focus
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The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots, member-driven organization committed to empowering voters and defending democracy. Our work focuses on promoting civic engagement, protecting voting rights, expanding voter protections, safeguarding election integrity and security, promoting government transparency and accountability, advocating for the responsible and ethical use of public resources, and ensuring fair representation through opposition to gerrymandering. While only a limited number of issues can be designated as formal priorities, the League remains actively engaged on a broad range of public policy issues that affect voters, strengthen communities, and uphold our democracy.

Voting Rights & Election Reform

  • Remove the voter suppression elements from SB90
  • Shorten the time between book closing date and an election to ten days
  • Support automatic registration (opt-out system), same-day voter registration, and improved online voter registration
  • Support automatic restoration of voting rights for former felony offenders after completion of sentence excluding any additional fines or liens not ordered by the sentencing judge. Amendment 4 excludes persons convicted of murder or felony sex offenders.
  • Support notifying voters if their Vote-By-Mail ballot has been accepted or rejected and provide a remedy for ensuring the vote of those whose ballots have been rejected.
  • Support the election of the President and Vice president by direct popular vote. Support the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
  • Support state funding of return postage for Vote-By-Mail ballots in all counties when Congressional and Florida legislative offices are on the ballot.
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Education

  • Promote adequate and equitable funding of public education and oppose use of public funding for the expansion of funding of private education, including through voucher program
  • Support a curricular framework that has broad common standards developed by educational experts that serves as a guide to local districts, including the historic mandates to teach Holocaust, antisemitism and African American History, and associated messages of tolerance and understanding, and the new standard to teach civics.
  • Support legislation that would require charter school contracts to stipulate how capital outlay funding and the assets they purchase will be recouped by the school district if the charter school should close or if the building is sold
  • Support any legislation that promotes diversity and nondiscrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, nationality, and ability status in all publicly funded schools. Oppose any legislation that aims to give tax dollars to private schools that discriminate (in policy or in practice) based on those criteria.
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Reproductive Health & Justice

  • Defend against passage of any Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (“TRAP”) laws singling out the medical practices of doctors who provide abortions and impose on them requirements that are different and more burdensome than those imposed on other medical practices.  
  • Defend against further taxpayer funding of anti-abortion women’s health centers (also known as crisis pregnancy centers)
  •  Defend against passage of any barriers to abortion access, including: gestational limits, limitations on types of procedures in abortion provision, expansion of state-mandated counseling, waiting periods, or parental involvement with minors seeking abortion care, and efforts to remove abortion access protections from the Florida Constitution
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Gun Violence Prevention

  • Support regulations concerning the purchase, ownership, safe storage for unattended guns and use of handguns and long guns that balance as nearly as possible individual constitutional rights with the general interest and welfare of the community.
  • Support changes in law to allow local communities to enact ordinances for any type of gun safety measures in their jurisdiction.
  • Support expansion of mandated background checks and three-day waiting periods for ALL gun sales or transfers, including gun shows and unlicensed gun sales, and ensure the state provides all relevant records to the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
  • Support a state ban on all semi- automatic assault style weapons and large capacity feeding devices.
  • Support changes in the law to make lying on a background check punishable by law.
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Reproductive Health & Justice

Reproductive Health & Justice

Learn about women’s reproductive health issues, advocacy, and legislative goals

Election Reform

Election Reform

Learn about election reform issues, advocacy, and legislative goals

Education

Education

Learn about public education issues, advocacy, and legislative goals

Ethics & Campaign Finance

Ethics & Campaign Finance

Learn about ethics and campaign finance reform issues, advocacy, and legislative goals.

Gun Violence Prevention

Gun Violence Prevention

Learn about gun safety issues, advocacy, and legislative goals

Health Care

Health Care

Learn about health care issues, advocacy, and legislative goals

Immigration

Immigration

Learn about immigration issues and advocacy

Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Learn about natural resource issues, advocacy, and legislative goals

National Popular Vote

National Popular Vote

Learn about how we can align the popular vote with the electoral system to elect the President — and our education, advocacy, and legislative goals to achieve this.

Clean Energy

Clean Energy

Help Spread Solar and Electric Vehicles!