No slogans. No "in an era of unprecedented change" framing. Six fights, with the state-level levers Maya will pull. If she is wrong on any of these, tell her. If she is right, vote.
Any LLC or fund acquiring more than 25 single-family homes in a calendar year files with the Florida Department of Revenue, pays a graduated state surcharge, and triggers a 30-day right-of-first-refusal for a qualified community land trust. Bipartisan in private; let's make it bipartisan on paper.
Tallahassee preempts every renter protection a local government tries to pass. The fix is statewide minimum standards: a deposit cap tied to one month's rent, anti-junk-fee provisions, 60-day notice for non-renewal, and standardized lease language. Set the floor at the state level; let cities build on it.
Fully fund the State Housing Trust Fund every year. Stop the sweep into general revenue. Sadowski-Act-level funding produces 30,000 units a year in Florida when it is fully deployed. We have not fully deployed it in 14 years.
A state-authorized Small Business Stabilization Corridor designation: capped commercial rent escalators for tenants in the same storefront 5+ years, paired with a state matching grant for facade improvements. Saves the bakery before it has to leave.
The federal government covers 90% of the cost. Florida walked away from $76B in federal funds over the last decade. Expansion in the next session, with a state appropriation that captures the federal match starting January 2028.
SB 412 passed the Senate in 2025 and died in the House. Carry it again. Insurers must provide a written, plain-language denial reason within 14 days, with a single-form internal appeal process, with state Department of Financial Services oversight authority that has actual enforcement teeth.
HB 7085 made Florida the first state with a recurring state funding line for sickle cell. Protect the appropriation in every budget cycle. Expand to cover Pasco and Pinellas service expansion in years 2 and 3.
Florida ranks 35th in maternal mortality. The state Healthy Start program is funded at half the level needed. Restore the funding. Pair it with state Medicaid coverage extension to 12 months postpartum, which the federal government is paying for and which Florida has not opted into.
Any voucher dollar that leaves a public school district triggers an equivalent state hold-harmless payment to that district for three years. Lets families choose without bankrupting the schools that 87% of Hillsborough kids still attend.
Florida ranks 50th in average teacher pay relative to the cost of living. Restore the state's full $1B teacher pay increase appropriation, with a districted-cost-of-living adjustment for high-rent Hillsborough and Pinellas.
The 2023 capital-funding cuts to fast-growth counties broke the Public Education Capital Outlay (PECO) pipeline. Restore the formula. Wesley Chapel needs three new K-8 facilities in four years and the funding source is not theoretical.
The state regulates teacher certification and graduation standards. It should not be writing the curricula or banning the books. Roll back HB 1467 enforcement. Restore local school-board discretion.
A dedicated wage-theft unit inside the Florida Attorney General office, with civil-penalty authority and standing to subpoena payroll records. Hillsborough County's local wage-theft ordinance is the model. Make it statewide.
Raise the Florida tip-credit minimum wage on a phased schedule: $5.00 in 2027, $7.50 in 2029. Index to inflation thereafter. The other half of the wage statute has been amended six times since 1991; the tip floor has not been touched.
State legislation mirroring the federal 2021 fix: tip pools must include back-of-house workers when management does not retain any portion, with clear enforcement at the state Department of Revenue.
Florida has no state paid-family-leave program. Establish a state insurance fund: 8 weeks paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child, funded by a 0.4% payroll contribution split between employer and employee. Modeled after the Massachusetts statute.
Pinellas seawall and stormwater remediation is a 20-year project. One-year budget line items are not a strategy. Statutorily-require a five-year resilience appropriation in the next session, indexed to projected sea-level rise.
Florida cannot ask Citizens Insurance to be the carrier of last resort indefinitely. Build a state-administered catastrophic flood reinsurance pool capitalized from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. The math works. Political will is the missing ingredient.
The 2022 Surfside reforms produced legitimate structural assessments no working condo owner can pay in 24 months. Create a state-backed loan program with 30-year amortization for unit owners under area median income.
Florida Forever conservation land acquisition has been funded at less than 20% of its statutory authorization for ten years. Restore the appropriation. The land we do not preserve now is the land that floods our neighbors next.
Roll back the 2023 VBM request restrictions. Restore secure ballot drop boxes. Restore the four-year VBM request window. Florida had the best-run vote-by-mail system in the country; we should be expanding it, not narrowing it.
Florida's Amendment 4 in 2024 won 57% of the vote and was killed by a Tallahassee-imposed 60% supermajority. Continue the fight. Co-sponsor every state legislative effort to codify reproductive freedom. Ballot-initiative reform that ends the supermajority game.
Repeal the 2022 'Parental Rights in Education' law in its expanded form. Affirm gender-affirming care access at the state level. Restore the nondiscrimination protections the 2023 session weakened.
The Florida Commission on Ethics has been intentionally underfunded for 12 years. Restore the staffing, restore the subpoena authority, restore the public accessibility of disclosures. Self-government requires it.
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