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Fentrice Driskell

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Fentrice Driskell

Fentrice Driskell

Position on major issues

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Position on major issues

Abortion and reproductive policy

Official record

Voted Yes on OGSR/Parental Consent Requirements Before Terminating a Pregnancy

Apr 29, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Sponsored Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies

Feb 28, 2025 · Did not pass · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Sponsored Termination of Pregnancies

Feb 26, 2025 · Did not pass · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

No public positions found.

Agriculture and rural policy

Official record

Voted Yes on OGSR/Aquaculture Records

Feb 4, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted No on Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Apr 29, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

No public positions found.

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. Read full quote

Official record

Voted Yes on Data Centers

Mar 11, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Use of Artificial Intelligence by Governmental Agencies to Detect Concealed Firearms

Apr 24, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

No public positions found.

Civil rights and freedoms

Official record

Voted Yes on Commencement of Civil Actions

Feb 17, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

No public positions found.

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.

Official record

Voted Yes on Correctional Facilities Financing and Capital Improvements

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Child Pornography Terminology

Mar 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+81 more

No public positions found.

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.

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.

Official record

Voted No on Public Employees Relations Commission

Mar 11, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+9 more

No public positions found.

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. Read full quote

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.

Official record

Voted No on Higher Education

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+94 more

No public positions found.

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.

Official record

Voted No on Elections

Mar 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Candidate Qualification

Feb 25, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+15 more

No public positions found.

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. Read full quote

Official record

Voted Yes on Rural Electric Cooperatives

Mar 11, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Advanced Nuclear Reactors

Mar 5, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+4 more

No public positions found.

Environment and climate

Official record

Voted Yes on Petroleum Cleanup Programs

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal System Permits

Mar 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances

Mar 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+30 more

No public positions found.

Families and social services

Official record

Voted Yes on Children’s Initiatives

Mar 11, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Out-of-home Placement Providers and Treatment Facilities

Mar 4, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations

Mar 3, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+9 more

No public positions found.

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.

Official record

Voted No on Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or Transfer

Jan 15, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Use of Artificial Intelligence by Governmental Agencies to Detect Concealed Firearms

Apr 24, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+5 more

No public positions found.

Government reform

Official record

Voted Yes on Judges

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Justice Administrative Commission

Mar 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Public Records/Body Camera Recordings Recorded by a Code Inspector

Mar 10, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+18 more

No public positions found.

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. Read full quote

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.

Official record

Voted Yes on Health Care

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+108 more

No public positions found.

Housing

Official record

Voted Yes on Local Housing Assistance Plans

Mar 10, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Housing for Veterans

Mar 10, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted No on Citizens Property Insurance Corporation

Mar 9, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+11 more

No public positions found.

Immigration

Official record

Voted No on Employment Eligibility

Jan 15, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Advertisements for Representation Services

Apr 24, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted No on Employment Eligibility

Apr 23, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+2 more

No public positions found.

Infrastructure and transportation

Official record

Voted No on Department of Management Services

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Documentary Stamp Tax Distributions

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on State Agency Law Enforcement Radio System

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+32 more

No public positions found.

Local control

Official record

Voted Yes on Assessments Levied on Recreational Vehicle Parks

Mar 10, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted No on Official Actions of Local Governments

Mar 10, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted No on Prohibited Governmental Policies Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Mar 5, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+5 more

No public positions found.

National security and foreign policy

Official record

Voted Yes on Concurrent Legislative Jurisdiction over United States Military Installations

Feb 17, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

No public positions found.

Social Security and retirement

Official record

Voted Yes on Retirement

May 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Retirement

Feb 19, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Retirement

Jun 16, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+1 more

No public positions found.

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.

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.

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. Read full quote

+51 more

No public positions found.

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. Read full quote

Official record

Voted Yes on Local Government Cyber Security

Mar 12, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Data Centers

Mar 11, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+6 more

No public positions found.

Veterans

Official record

Voted Yes on Veterans Dental Care Grant Program

Feb 25, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Cosponsored Veterans Dental Care Grant Program

Oct 23, 2025 · Became law · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Veterans

May 2, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+2 more

No public positions found.

Animals and wildlife

Official record

Voted Yes on Dangerous Dogs

Apr 30, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on Dangerous Dogs

Apr 23, 2025 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Cosponsored Dangerous Dogs

Feb 13, 2025 · Became law · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

No public positions found.

Emergency management

Official record

Voted No on Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/Executive Office of the Governor

Mar 13, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted Yes on OGSR/Persons Provided Public Emergency Shelter

Mar 9, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

Voted No on Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund/Executive Office of the Governor

Mar 9, 2026 · Passed · Source: Open States, linked to official Florida Senate records.

+6 more

No public positions found.

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