Bill > S1632

Introduced Session

An act relating to ideologies inconsistent with American principles; providing legislative intent and findings; creating s. 2.05, F.S.; defining the terms “foreign law” and “religious law”; prohibiting the application of certain law in adjudicatory proceedings; providing exceptions; providing applicability; amending s. 617.1420, F.S.; providing that the Department of State may administratively dissolve a corporation that has been designated as a terrorist organization in certain situations; amending s. 775.30, F.S.; defining the term “domestic terrorist organization”; amending s. 775.32, F.S.; defining the term “domestic terrorist organization”; providing that a person who receives military training from a domestic terrorist organization in certain situations commits a specified crime; amending s. 775.33, F.S.; defining the term “domestic terrorist organization”; providing a person who knowingly provides or attempts or conspires to provide material support or resources to a domestic terrorist organization commits a specified crime; amending s. 775.34, F.S.; defining the term “domestic terrorist organization”; providing that a person who willfully becomes a member of a domestic terrorist organization and serves under the direction or control of such organization with a specified intent commits a specified crime; amending s. 874.03, F.S.; revising the definition of “terrorist organization” to include a foreign terrorist organization and a domestic terrorist organization; creating s. 943.03102, F.S.; authorizing the Chief of Domestic Security to designate an organization a domestic terrorist organization or a foreign terrorist organization if certain requirements are met; requiring the Chief to maintain a list of such organizations; requiring the Chief to review each designation within a specified time period; requiring the Chief to provide specified written notice to the Governor and the Cabinet within a certain time period before making the designation; providing the Governor and the Cabinet may by a majority vote approve or reject the designation; requiring the Chief to publish such designation in the Florida Administrative Register within a specified time period after approval of the designation by the Governor and the Cabinet; authorizing a designated organization to seek judicial review; providing for removal of such designation in certain circumstances; prohibiting state agencies, political subdivisions, and public school districts from expending certain public funds to support an organization designated as a domestic terrorist organization or a foreign terrorist organization, or accepting funds from such organizations; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to adopt rules; amending s. 1002.421, F.S.; revising eligibility and obligations of private schools that participate in the state school choice scholarship program; creating s. 1003.035, F.S.; prohibiting a public school from expending certain funds to promote, support, or maintain certain programs or activities; amending s. 1004.06, F.S.; prohibiting certain institutions from expending public funds to promote, support, or maintain programs or campus activities that advocate for domestic terrorist organizations or foreign terrorist organizations; authorizing the withholding of specified funding of certain institutions; amending s. 1006.61, F.S.; requiring public postsecondary educational institutions to report specified information of a student in certain circumstances; requiring immediate expulsion of such student from the institution; amending s. 1009.01, F.S.; providing definitions; amending ss. 1009.23 and 1009.24, F.S.; requiring that certain students of Florida College System institutions and state universities, respectively, be immediately expelled and assessed out-of-state fees after a determination has been made such students have promoted a domestic terrorist organization or a foreign terrorist organization; amending s. 1009.26, F.S.; providing that certain students of school districts and Florida College System institutions are ineligible for specified fee waivers; creating s. 1009.8963, F.S.; prohibiting students who promote domestic terrorist organization or foreign terrorist organizations from being awarded certain public institution funds; providing an effective date. WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that the United States and Florida Constitutions guarantee the free exercise of religion and that the United States and the State of Florida have a long and cherished history of protecting religious freedom, and WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has acknowledged that the United States Constitution does not prohibit public authorities from regulating conduct or actions, even if motivated by religion, that “have invariably posed some substantial threat to public safety, peace or order,” Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398, 403 (1963), and WHEREAS, Section 3, Article I of the State Constitution provides that “[r]eligious freedom shall not justify practices inconsistent with public morals, peace or safety,” and WHEREAS, the Legislature finds that certain practices inherent to Sharia law, including nonconsensual and child marriages, public stoning or lashings, physical warfare against non-Muslims, discriminatory treatment of women, and amputation of limbs for crimes such as theft, violate the fundamental rights of persons, undermine the peace and order of society, and are deeply incompatible with the United States and Florida Constitutions, and WHEREAS, the Legislature has determined that a public or private authority or tribunal in the State of Florida should not enforce any religious practice, including any practice of Sharia law, that violates legal rights, NOW, THEREFORE,

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Erin Grall (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (2)

Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 1471 (on 03/05/2026)

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