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Title: Amends Various State Immigration Laws, Policies, and Restrictions

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Title: Amends Various State Immigration Laws, Policies, and Restrictions

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends various immigration laws, policies, and restrictions, including limits to social services for undocumented
immigrants, appropriates millions more tax dollars to expand Gov. DeSantis' migrant relocation program, repeals driver's licenses issued to undocumented people by other states, and requires hospitals that get Medicaid dollars to ask for a patient's immigration status.

Highlights:

  • Prohibits counties and municipalities, respectively, from providing funds to any person, entity, or organization to issue identification documents to an individual who does not provide proof of lawful presence in the United States (Sec. 1). 

  • Specifies that certain driver licenses and permits issued by other states exclusively to unauthorized immigrants are not valid in this state (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires law enforcement officers and authorized representatives of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to cite a person driving with a specified invalid license (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the state to maintain a list on its website of out-of-state classes of driver licenses that are invalid in this state (Sec. 1). 

  • Amends the circumstances under which certain persons are exempt from obtaining a driver license (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires certain hospitals to collect patient immigration status data information on admission or registration forms (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires hospitals to submit quarterly reports to the Agency for Health Care Administration containing specified information (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires hospitals to submit quarterly reports to the Agency for Health Care Administration containing specified information (Sec. 1). 

  • Authorizes the agency to adopt rules prohibiting rules requiring the disclosure of certain information (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the Department of Economic Opportunity to enter a certain order and require repayment of certain economic development incentives if the department finds or is notified that an employer has knowingly employed an unauthorized alien without verifying the employment eligibility of such person (Sec. 1). 

  • Rescinding provisions relating to a first violation of specified provisions (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishing penalties, including a probationary period and suspension and revocation of all licenses of employers (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes other penalties for knowingly employing an unauthorized immigrant (Sec. 1).

See How Your Politicians Voted

Title: Amends Various State Immigration Laws, Policies, and Restrictions

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends various immigration laws, policies, and restrictions, including limits to social services for undocumented
immigrants, appropriates millions more tax dollars to expand Gov. DeSantis' migrant relocation program, repeals driver's licenses issued to undocumented people by other states, and requires hospitals that get Medicaid dollars to ask for a patient's immigration status.

Highlights:

  • Prohibits counties and municipalities, respectively, from providing funds to any person, entity, or organization to issue identification documents to an individual who does not provide proof of lawful presence in the United States (Sec. 1). 

  • Specifies that certain driver licenses and permits issued by other states exclusively to unauthorized immigrants are not valid in this state (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires law enforcement officers and authorized representatives of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to cite a person driving with a specified invalid license (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the state to maintain a list on its website of out-of-state classes of driver licenses that are invalid in this state (Sec. 1). 

  • Amends the circumstances under which certain persons are exempt from obtaining a driver license (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires certain hospitals to collect patient immigration status data information on admission or registration forms (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires hospitals to submit quarterly reports to the Agency for Health Care Administration containing specified information (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires hospitals to submit quarterly reports to the Agency for Health Care Administration containing specified information (Sec. 1). 

  • Authorizes the agency to adopt rules prohibiting rules requiring the disclosure of certain information (Sec. 1). 

  • Requires the Department of Economic Opportunity to enter a certain order and require repayment of certain economic development incentives if the department finds or is notified that an employer has knowingly employed an unauthorized alien without verifying the employment eligibility of such person (Sec. 1). 

  • Rescinding provisions relating to a first violation of specified provisions (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishing penalties, including a probationary period and suspension and revocation of all licenses of employers (Sec. 1). 

  • Establishes other penalties for knowingly employing an unauthorized immigrant (Sec. 1).

Title: Amends Various State Immigration Laws, Policies, and Restrictions

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