Events

Please see the Florida House Schedule for the schedule for the week of December 4. Published no later than the 7th day before the Committee Meeting.

Bills

RLCFL Legislative Action Center

Commissioner’s Chambers, 3rd floor, Building F, Collier County Government Center, 3299 Tamiami Trail East, Naples

Before Aug 18 (5 pm) submit speaker form and supporting document by contacting hayden.paul@flsenate.gov. Four copies of supporting document with 3-hole punch to be delivered to Paul Hayden, 3299 Tamiami Trail East, Suite 203, Naples, FL 34112. Also email a PDF of the document to Paul.

Florida State Legislators representing Santa Rosa County seek citizen comments regarding: taxes, immigration, zoning and budget at this open meeting.

By Sept 17, 5 pm submit speaker form and supporting document by contacting Pitzer.keri@flsenate.gov or call 850-634-7553.

Citizen comments are requested to be presented to Florida State Legislators at the Pinellas County Legislative Delegation meeting, regarding: taxes, elections, immigration and budget issues.

Before September 17 (5pm) submit speaker form at https://pinellas.gov/legislative-delegation/. Supporting document to be emailed to anna.stearns@flhouse.gov.

September 27th, 2025, 930am-12 noon for the Manatee County RLC 5th Annual Constitution Day Breakfast!

This will truly be an educational event. There will be two panel discussions. First, we will have what is sure to be an enlightening discussion with Dr. Jason Jewell, Chief Academic Officer and Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives of the State University System of Florida. Prior to that, he taught for more than 20 years at Faulkner University, where he chaired the Department of Humanities and directed the Center for Great Books and Human Flourishing. He serves on the governing boards of the Philadelphia Society and Ivy Classical Academy and the advisory board of the Ciceronian Society. This panel will focus on the history of constitutions dating all the way back to Greco-Roman times and then showing how our Founding Fathers used those forms of government, plus other historical examples, to produce the recipe for our great American Constitution.

The second panel will consist Richard Tatem, Manatee County School Board Member leading a discussion with Berny Jacques, Member of the Florida House, and Manatee County Commissioner Tal Saddique. The three of us will discuss the concept of “Subsidiarity“: “a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as ‘the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level.'” The conversation will focus on how federal and state government overreach impinges on good local governance.