We are on the final month of Florida’s Legislative season. It is crunching tome in Tallahassee and here is where we stand according to my opinion.

One bills has a good chance of passing:  CS/CS/HB 259 Safety of Religious Institutions wit the Senate Companion bill CS/SB 498. This bill has sailed through the committees with some Democrats voting for it. This had also happened the last two years, but we had RINOS bought and paid for by Bloomberg and/or the caresses of Moms Demand, specifically Senator Bill Galvano (president of the Senate) and Senator Anitere Flores who threw roadblocks to the bills. They termed out and the bill had both a companion Senate bill and bipartisan support all of the sudden.

Two bills have a 50-50 chance of going somewhere: HB 1409 Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition Regulation (with Senate companion bill SB 1884) and HB 1343 Issuance of Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms. (with Senate companion SB 1882)

As for the rest of the bills, both good and bad, I figure they are pretty much dead for this year. Of course I will only stop following them on April 31st when the gavel strikes the podium signaling the end of the legislative season.

I know I would dearly love to attend Mass in my neighborhood Catholic church without having to be unarmed because it shares space with a school, just like 99% of all Catholic churches in the world. But till it is voted on both floors and send to the governor’s office, I won’t celebrate.

I would love to see Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition Regulation passed if anything to flip the bird in the faces of Democrats who came out with several bills to eliminate pre-emption all together in the State of Florida. And the same applies to the face of Nikki Fried (who thinks is a challenger to DeSantis’ re-election) when it comes to Issuance of Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms. She would love to screw with the online system so people cannot get or renew their CWL and this bill demand to go above and beyond not to interrupt the process.

There are a boatload of bills in the Legislature right now, so they are gonna be busy and they include the ones that dole out money to their respective districts. You can imagine the pressure they have and why they won’t waste anymore time in other bills for this season, or at least that is what I think because RealPolitik always wins. But as I have stated before this year, we need to get the ball rolling somehow: One bill passed is great, the three of them would be fantastic.

After that, a bit of rest, hurricane season and the we start all over again in November.