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Don Gaetz R

State Senator
Florida Senate District 1
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2028
4 Total

Biography

Photo URL: http://www.flsenate.gov/PublishedContent/Senators/2014-2016/Photos/s01_4804.jpg

On Record (31)

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May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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May 12, 2026 · source · details / share
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Sen. Don Gaetz on the 2026 session: ‘I think we ought to be embarrassed’  News From The States
Apr 08, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 43-5-250 So As To Exempt Individuals Convicted Of Certain Crimes From Federal Eligibility Restrictions To Receive Public Assistance.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Revising the definition of "drug paraphernalia" to exclude certain narcotic-drug-testing products, etc.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Defining the term "impacted local government", etc.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Providing an exemption from licensure requirements for certain volunteers who provide armed security services for places of worship, etc.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires DCF to receive, deposit, & conserve certain benefit payments for certain minor clients; provides requirements for such funds; prohibits DCF from using such funds for certain purposes.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Revising the calculation that the Chief Financial Officer performs to set the rate of interest payable on judgments or decrees; requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission to create specified reports on related entities and compensation of executive officers for insurers, licensees, and registrants; revising the facts the office must consider in determining whether a rate …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizing a court to consider certain information provided by a guardian ad litem, etc.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Deleting the requirement for an applicant for licensure by endorsement to have held a valid active license to practice veterinary medicine in another state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States for a specified amount of time; requiring applicants to hold a valid, active license in good standing to practice veterinary medicine in another state, the …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of current and former employees and commissioners of the Commission on Ethics and their spouses and dependents; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Providing requirements for mathematics pathways established by a certain workgroup; requiring the Department of Education to develop applied algebra courses; providing requirements for the applied algebra courses; requiring the department to collaborate with the Board of Governors of the State University System to ensure the courses are accepted as mathematics credits for state university admissions, etc.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Providing that all hearings relating to mental health examination or treatment and substance abuse treatment or assessment and stabilization, respectively, are confidential and closed to the public; providing that certain information is exempt from public records requirements; authorizing disclosure of certain confidential and exempt documents to certain service providers; authorizing courts to use a respondent's name for certain purposes; providing …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requiring the office to create specified reports on insurers, licensees, registrants, and their related entities, including the compensation of their executive officers; requiring the office to use a reliable and up-to-date methodology and software to create specified reports and review such methodology and software for accuracy; specifying that certain data are not considered trade secrets and may be used for …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creating a categorical fund for implementing the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; creating the educational enrollment stabilization program to provide supplemental state funds to address changes in full-time equivalent student enrollment; renaming the Hope Scholarship Program as the Hope Program; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization to provide a parent with certain information on scholarship programs; requiring an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Providing that public officers, public employees, and local government attorneys commit a breach of the public trust when they initiate adverse personnel actions against employees of an agency or independent contractor under certain circumstances; prohibiting agencies and independent contractors from taking specified actions against employees or certain persons for disclosing certain information to the Commission on Ethics; requiring that information …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires FDLE to post on its website specified information relating to individuals convicted of specified animal cruelty offenses; requires clerk of each court & county detention facility to provide FDLE with such information; requires pet dealers to disclose financing terms before sale of animals & provide copies of specified medical records to consumers; revises provisions relating to purchase, exchange, & …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Revives, readopts, & amends provisions relating to missing persons with special needs statewide project; provides that project is created through centers for autism & related disabilities; provides that participants for project shall be selected based on certain criteria; provides appropriations.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides requirements for commercial motor vehicle operators; requires sworn law enforcement officers with certain authority to take into custody persons determined to be unauthorized aliens operating commercial motor vehicles & facilitate transfer of such persons into custody of federal immigration agency; requires impoundment & removal of commercial motor vehicle; requires such officers to immediately provide certain notification & information to …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits land application of Class AA biosolids fertilizer & compost products from exceeding appropriate agronomic rate; requires land application site owners & operators to maintain records; requires DEP to provide certain notice to such owners & operators & to adopt rules; requires University of Florida's IFAS to publish & make publicly available recommended agronomic rates for bulk Class AA biosolids …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes dealers to round to nearest nickel in certain circumstances; provides methodology for such rounding; provides that such rounding is not deceptive & unfair trade practice in certain circumstances; requires certain cash payments be made in full amount due or rounded in a specified manner.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Revises requirements for applicants eligible to be qualified for licensure by endorsement by Board of Professional Surveyors and Mappers to include applicants from outside of state who meet certain requirements; authorizes board to require & independently evaluate certain documents and information; authorizes board to adopt certain rules.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Provides that new medical report relating to provision of psychotropic medication to child in legal custody of DCF may be required only under certain circumstances; requires DCF & each community-based care lead agency to coordinate with certain organizations & meet quarterly; requires DCF & each community-based care lead agency to make certain information available on their respective websites; requires, beginning …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Requires sheriffs to assist public postsecondary educational institutions in implementing guardian programs under certain provisions; authorizes public postsecondary educational institutions to participate in the school guardian program; requires a sheriff to establish a guardian training program or contract with certain other sheriff's offices to do so in certain circumstances; creates the offense of discharging a weapon or firearm within 1,000 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Requires, rather than authorizing, local governments to adopt, by specified date, ordinance to allow accessory dwelling units in certain areas; requires that such ordinances apply prospectively; prohibits inclusion of certain requirements or prohibitions in such ordinances; removes requirement that application for building permit to construct accessory dwelling unit include certain affidavit; revises accessory dwelling units that apply toward satisfying certain …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Revises admissions process for veterans treatment court programs; authorizes court, in consultation with multidisciplinary team, to determine eligibility for veterans treatment court programs; requires court to consider recommendation of state attorney when making eligibility determination; authorizes sentencing courts to divert defendants to veterans treatment court programs; requires certain notice be provided to defendants; provides for disposition of probation or community …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Revises membership of PSC; requires PSC to include specified information in settlement agreement orders, ensure certain allowable returns on equity, establish certain schedules for rate change requests, & provide annual report to Governor & Legislature.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in specified counties; directs DOT to erect suitable markers.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share

Crossposts (15)

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Specifying additional circumstances under which a disputed claim is not subject to review under the statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program, etc.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Designating October 14 of each year as "Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance"; authorizing the Governor to issue an annual proclamation, etc.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Revising the circumstances under which a person may be deemed to have legal or beneficial and equitable title to certain property for homestead exemption purposes, etc.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Establishing the Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight for specified purposes; revising encounter data reporting requirements for prepaid Medicaid plans; requiring managed care plans to report to the agency and the Office of Insurance Regulation the existence of and specified …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Providing members of a district school board with specified rights; requiring that certain documents from district school board meetings be kept as public records; providing that a school district employee may not be required or incentivized to sign a nondisclosure …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Providing that evidence admissible in personal injury or wrongful death actions may be used for rebutting, as well as for proving, the amount of certain damages; providing that such evidence may be offered by any party, etc.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibiting impacted local governments from enforcing certain moratoriums, requiring the repair or reconstruction of certain improvements to meet certain requirements, or enforcing changes to specified procedures; revising circumstances under which impacted local governments may enforce certain amendments, site plans, development …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Providing that certain facts are found and declared to be true; providing that a sum is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of State for specified relief; requiring that a specified percentage of such relief be provided …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Requires, beginning on specified date, that newborns to be screened for biliary atresia; requires DOH to consult with Genetics & Newborn Screening Advisory Council before adopting certain rules; requires department, by specified date, to implement certain education campaign relating to …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes distributor of vinous, spirituous, or malt beverages to make excise tax deduction in its monthly tax report for alcoholic beverages that have become unsellable through warehouse breakage, spoliation, evaporation, or expiration or that have become unfit for human consumption; …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Designates Florida Speech & Debate Week annually in February; subject to legislative appropriation, establishing Florida Debate Initiative, Inc., (FDI) as statewide speech & debate organization that performs certain functions in support of Florida Civics & Debate Initiative (FCDI) in DOE; …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits agency from entering into nondisclosure agreement or other contract that restricts agency from disclosing certain information to public; specifies that local governments maintain authority to exercise power & responsibility over comprehensive planning & land development regulations related to large …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Assessment of Property Used for Residential Purposes
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Requires, subject to legislative appropriation, each district school board to adopt rules to require display of portraits of George Washington & Abraham Lincoln at each public school in district; & requires DOE to select portraits & make them available to …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Authorizes counties to adopt ordinance for decommissioning of certain solar facilities; provides for rebuttal of certain presumptions; requires DEP to develop, revise, & update best management practices for construction of solar facilities; requires solar facility operators to implement specified BMPs; …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share