Tag Archives: Dean Black

CBS News reports: A Florida House panel has backed a measure that would require state-issued identification cards to reflect a person’s sex assigned at birth and impose requirements for insurers who cover gender-affirming care. The Republican-controlled House Select Committee on Health Innovation approved the bill (HB 1639) along party lines, despite opposition from transgender people and their allies. Under the …

Jacksonville’s ABC affiliate reports: A Northeast Florida lawmaker wants to legally define the words “man” and “woman” based on biological sex at birth. Jacksonville Rep. Dean Black filed the proposed What Is A Woman Act this week, which would also impose new requirements related to transgender individuals on state agencies and insurance companies. House Bill 1233 requires state agencies to …

Florida Politics reports: HB 395, filed by Rep. Dean Black of Jacksonville, proposes state “protection of historical monuments and memorials” and authorizes “all actions to protect and preserve all historical monuments and memorials from removal, damage, or destruction.” The bill would punish local lawmakers and officials who voted to remove such memorials, authorizing a fine of the costs of replacing …

Florida Politics reports: Jacksonville’s Mayor is taking heat from the Republican Party for her decision to participate in this weekend’s Pride Parade. Democrat Donna Deegan, the first Mayor to attend Pride, was the Grand Marshal of the event. However, Duval GOP Chairman Dean Black, a current state legislator, is objecting to Deegan’s participation — and is suggesting that “legislation” might …

Florida Politics reports: A House committee approved a bill that could end efforts to move or “re-contextualize” confederate monuments and other markers of war. The “Historical Monuments and Memorials Protection Act” (HB 1607) cleared its first hurdle in front of the Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee, on a 10-2 vote. Rep. Dean Black, a Jacksonville Republican …

Florida Politics reports: The “Historical Monuments and Memorials Protection Act” (HB 1607) was filed in the House by Rep. Dean Black, a Jacksonville Republican. It is the House companion to SB 1096, filed by Sen. Jonathan Martin [photo], a Republican from Fort Myers. “We must defend and learn from our history,” Black told Florida Politics Tuesday. This includes protecting historic …