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Fentrice Driskell
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Position on major issues
Abortion and reproductive policy
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Sponsored Termination of Pregnancies
Agriculture and rural policy
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Voted Yes on OGSR/Aquaculture Records
Voted No on Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Artificial intelligence
Reining In AI Infrastructure As data centers expand rapidly across Florida, Fentrice believes the rush to build AI infrastructure cannot come at the expense of the communities forced to live with it. These facilities strain local power grids, drive up utility costs for everyday ratepayers, and consume massive amounts of water and energy with little transparency or community input. Fentrice supports strong state regulation of AI data center development, including real oversight of energy and water use, protections for ratepayers, and a seat at the table for the working families and neighborhoods most affected. Innovation shouldn’t mean handing Florida’s environment and household budgets over to unaccountable corporations.
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Voted Yes on Data Centers
Civil rights and freedoms
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Voted Yes on Commencement of Civil Actions
Criminal justice and policing
Fentrice is incredibly proud of sponsoring a bill tackling police reform and increasing accountability for law enforcement (HB 7051) and a bill creating a task force to preserve abandoned African American cemeteries across Florida (HB 37), both of which were passed unanimously.
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Voted Yes on Child Pornography Terminology
Voted No on Systems of Law and Terrorist Organizations
Voted No on Pub. Rec./Terrorist Organizations
Economy, jobs and wages
She also opposes the wave of state preemption laws that strip local communities of the power to protect their own workers and neighborhoods.
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As Florida House Democratic Leader, she has fought to protect workers’ right to organize, to make sure that billionaires and big companies pay their fair share, to prevent taxes from being shifted to working families, and to champion apprenticeship programs and prevailing wage standards that build real career pathways.
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Voted No on Public Employees Relations Commission
Voted Yes on OGSR/Administration of Small Business Loan Programs Held by an Economic Development Agency
Voted Yes on Department of Commerce
Education
She has fought to fully fund public education, raise teacher pay, protect educators’ collective bargaining rights, and end the book bans and curriculum censorship that have turned Florida classrooms into political battlegrounds. She believes every school receiving taxpayer dollars should be held to the same standards of transparency and accountability. Florida’s kids deserve a legislature that invests in their future, not one that defunds it.
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https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
As State Representative, now representing Florida House District 67, Fentrice is a fierce advocate for improved health care outcomes and closing the Medicaid gap for low-income Floridians, common-sense gun reform, investing in our teachers and schools, ensuring a healthy environment, and protecting our voting rights.
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https://fentriceforflorida.com/meet-fentrice-driskell/
Elections and voting
She supports real transparency requirements like disclosing when outside groups draft legislation, requiring public hearings before major policy changes get attached to must-pass budget bills.
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https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
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Voted No on Elections
Voted Yes on Candidate Qualification
Voted Yes on Security for Nominees and Officers-elect to the Offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Voted No on Elections
Energy
Reining In AI Infrastructure As data centers expand rapidly across Florida, Fentrice believes the rush to build AI infrastructure cannot come at the expense of the communities forced to live with it. These facilities strain local power grids, drive up utility costs for everyday ratepayers, and consume massive amounts of water and energy with little transparency or community input. Fentrice supports strong state regulation of AI data center development, including real oversight of energy and water use, protections for ratepayers, and a seat at the table for the working families and neighborhoods most affected. Innovation shouldn’t mean handing Florida’s environment and household budgets over to unaccountable corporations.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
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https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
Official record
Voted Yes on Rural Electric Cooperatives
Voted Yes on Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Voted Yes on Energy Infrastructure Investment
Environment and climate
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Voted Yes on Petroleum Cleanup Programs
Voted Yes on Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal System Permits
Voted Yes on Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
Voted Yes on Department of Environmental Protection
Voted Yes on Stormwater Treatment
Families and social services
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Voted Yes on Children’s Initiatives
Voted Yes on Pub. Rec./Applicants, Owners, and Operators of Family Foster Homes and References of Such Persons
Voted Yes on Dependent Children
Firearms policy
As State Representative, now representing Florida House District 67, Fentrice is a fierce advocate for improved health care outcomes and closing the Medicaid gap for low-income Floridians, common-sense gun reform, investing in our teachers and schools, ensuring a healthy environment, and protecting our voting rights.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
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https://fentriceforflorida.com/meet-fentrice-driskell/
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Voted No on Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or Transfer
Government reform
Healthcare
Expanding Access to Healthcare Hundreds of thousands of Floridians fall into a health insurance coverage gap; they earn too much for Medicaid and too little for marketplace insurance. Fentrice supports expanding Medicaid to close that gap and keep struggling rural hospitals open. Right now, Florida sends billions of our tax dollars up to the federal government to pay for Medicaid in other states. Expanding Medicaid here would keep those dollars in Florida and save us billions each year. Fentrice has also pushed for real oversight of for-profit managed care plans, because healthcare decisions should be driven by patient outcomes, not corporate profit margins.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
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https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
As State Representative, now representing Florida House District 67, Fentrice is a fierce advocate for improved health care outcomes and closing the Medicaid gap for low-income Floridians, common-sense gun reform, investing in our teachers and schools, ensuring a healthy environment, and protecting our voting rights.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
Sources
https://fentriceforflorida.com/meet-fentrice-driskell/
Official record
Voted Yes on Health Care
Voted Yes on Uterine Fibroid Research Database
Voted Yes on Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal System Permits
Housing
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Voted Yes on Local Housing Assistance Plans
Voted Yes on Housing for Veterans
Voted No on Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
Voted Yes on Community Associations
Voted Yes on Fraudulent Entry of Residential Dwellings
Immigration
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Voted No on Employment Eligibility
Voted Yes on Advertisements for Representation Services
Voted No on Employment Eligibility
Voted No on Immigration
Voted No on Immigration
Infrastructure and transportation
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Voted No on Department of Management Services
Voted Yes on Documentary Stamp Tax Distributions
Voted Yes on State Agency Law Enforcement Radio System
Voted No on Foreign Influence
Voted Yes on Claims Against the Government
Local control
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Voted Yes on Assessments Levied on Recreational Vehicle Parks
Voted No on Official Actions of Local Governments
Voted Yes on Local Government Regulation of Chickees
Voted Yes on Local Government Enforcement Actions
National security and foreign policy
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Social Security and retirement
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Voted Yes on Retirement
Voted Yes on Retirement
Voted Yes on Retirement
Voted Yes on Retirement
Taxes and government spending
As Florida House Democratic Leader, she has fought to protect workers’ right to organize, to make sure that billionaires and big companies pay their fair share, to prevent taxes from being shifted to working families, and to champion apprenticeship programs and prevailing wage standards that build real career pathways.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
Sources
https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
She supports real transparency requirements like disclosing when outside groups draft legislation, requiring public hearings before major policy changes get attached to must-pass budget bills.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
Sources
https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
Expanding Access to Healthcare Hundreds of thousands of Floridians fall into a health insurance coverage gap; they earn too much for Medicaid and too little for marketplace insurance. Fentrice supports expanding Medicaid to close that gap and keep struggling rural hospitals open. Right now, Florida sends billions of our tax dollars up to the federal government to pay for Medicaid in other states. Expanding Medicaid here would keep those dollars in Florida and save us billions each year. Fentrice has also pushed for real oversight of for-profit managed care plans, because healthcare decisions should be driven by patient outcomes, not corporate profit margins.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
Sources
https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
Official record
Voted No on Property Tax Administration
Voted No on Department of Management Services
Technology and privacy
Reining In AI Infrastructure As data centers expand rapidly across Florida, Fentrice believes the rush to build AI infrastructure cannot come at the expense of the communities forced to live with it. These facilities strain local power grids, drive up utility costs for everyday ratepayers, and consume massive amounts of water and energy with little transparency or community input. Fentrice supports strong state regulation of AI data center development, including real oversight of energy and water use, protections for ratepayers, and a seat at the table for the working families and neighborhoods most affected. Innovation shouldn’t mean handing Florida’s environment and household budgets over to unaccountable corporations.
fentriceforflorida.com ·
Sources
https://fentriceforflorida.com/fentrice-driskell-on-the-issues/
Official record
Voted Yes on Local Government Cyber Security
Voted Yes on Data Centers
Voted Yes on Local Government Cyber Security
Voted Yes on Information Technology Procurement and Contracting
Veterans
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Voted Yes on Veterans Dental Care Grant Program
Cosponsored Veterans Dental Care Grant Program
Voted Yes on Veterans
Voted Yes on Veterans
Voted Yes on Veteran and Spouse Nursing Home Beds
Animals and wildlife
Emergency management
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Voted Yes on OGSR/Persons Provided Public Emergency Shelter
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Voting and sponsorship record
741 votes (no: 137, yes: 590, not voting: 14), 71 sponsorships.
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