Florida Bill Requires Homeless To Get Permit To Sleep

January 29, 2024 Politics, Republicans

Florida Politics reports:

Sen. Jonathan Martin’s legislation (SB 1530) would ban counties and municipalities from permitting public sleeping or public camping on public property without explicit permission via temporary permits, a move deemed by the bill language to fulfill an “important state interest.”

Localities may designate certain public property for sleeping or camping with the sanction of the Department of Children and Families, permission based on providing clean restrooms, running water, security on the premises and bans on drugs and alcohol.

Martin envisioned the “most luxurious” facility possible in these camps, with accommodations for wrap-around homeless services. He wouldn’t hazard a guess on what the unfunded mandate might cost, but made it clear that was a problem for subsidiary governments to solve while answering questions from Democrats.

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Martin appeared here last week when the Florida Senate advanced his bill giving DeSantis the power to remove any elected official who votes against Confederate monuments.

He first appeared here in 2022 when as chairman of the Lee County GOP he introduced a resolution banning federal agents from Florida and declaring WHO to be a terrorist organization.

Last year his bill shielding DeSantis’s travel records and the names of visitors to the governor’s mansion was overwhelming approved.

Martin is the author of the new Florida law allowing the death penalty for child molesters. The first such execution is already in the works.

Earlier this month, Martin filed a bill that would ban state agencies and contractors from recognizing the identities of transgender state employees.



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