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The Stop WOKE Act, also known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act and redubbed the Individual Freedom Act, is a Florida state law which prohibited schools and businesses from teaching certain concepts related to race, gender, racism, and privilege. In addition to that, it prohibits Florida educational institutions and businesses ...
More than 137.5 million tourists visited Florida last year, and tourist spending in the state in 2019 totaled nearly $100bn, according to the state’s tourism promotion agency Visit Florida.
Florida lawmakers got a taste of the bigotry their legislation has helped to legitimize in the past two years of warring against so-called “woke” culture.
Since 2022, at least six other states have adopted laws similar to Florida's. A court has put on hold enforcement of Iowa's law from last year. Laws are in effect in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana ...
Senate Bill 266 advanced in the Florida state senate's appropriations committee on April 13, 2023. The Florida Senate passed the bill on April 28, 2023, by a margin of 27-12. [19] The House version of the bill passed by a vote of 81-34 on May 3, 2023. [20] Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill concurrently with Florida House Bill 931 on May 15 ...
The most important laws required that public schools, public places and public transportation, like trains and buses, have separate facilities for Whites and Blacks. State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education.
Bills currently moving through the Florida legislature's 2024 session would make it easier to sue someone for accusations of racism, transphobia and more.
Florida Florida Constitution, Article I, §2 (1998) Georgia Fair Employment Practices Act; Hawaii Hawaii Constitution, Article I, §3 (1978) Illinois Illinois Constitution, Article I, §18 (1970) Jett Hawkins Act (2021) Homeless Bill of Rights; Iowa Iowa Constitution, Article I, §1 (1998) Louisiana Louisiana Constitution, Article I, §3 (1975)