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H1467 - Affordable Housing
Fentrice Driskell, Kristen Arrington, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 7 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes municipalities to create community land bank programs to sell eligible real property by private sale for purposes of affordable housing & provides requirements for such programs; authorizes Florida Housing Finance Corporation to allocate tax credit among certain projects; authorizes tax credit to be transferred by recipient; creates Retail-to-residence Tax Credit Program; requires corporation to establish & adopt procedures & to prepare annual plan; requires plan to be approved by Governor; authorizes corporation to exercise certain powers; creates Affordable Housing Construction Loan Program; provides corporation with certain powers & responsibilities relating to program; provides requirements for program.
STATUS
Failed
H0361 - School Readiness Program
Ashley Viola Gantt
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Revises definition for term "economically disadvantaged" for purposes of school readiness program.
STATUS
Failed
H0945 - Heat Illness Prevention
Michael A. Gottlieb, Kristen Arrington, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 7 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Requires employers to implement outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; specifies requirements for safety program; provides responsibilities for employers & employees; requires specified annual training on heat illness & providing requirements for such training; requires DACS, in conjunction with DOH, to adopt specified rules.
STATUS
Failed
H0127 - Paid Parental Leave
Ashley Viola Gantt, Dotie Joseph
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requires state to provide paid parental leave to certain employees for specified time period; prohibits state from requiring that employee use his or her annual or sick leave for paid parental leave; provides employee is entitled to accumulate specified benefits during such leave; prohibits state from refusing to grant such leave.
STATUS
Failed
H0291 - Weapons and Firearms
Christine Maria Hunschofsky, Kristen Arrington, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 7 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Requires background checks on persons involved in firearm sales or transfers; requires firearm sales or transfers to be conducted through licensed dealer; revises requirements for safe storage of firearms; revises criminal penalties; requires firearms be sold by dealers with trigger locks or gun cases; revises warnings to be posted in gun dealerships; requires certain materials to be given to gun purchasers; prohibits specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; prohibits certain activities involving three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine.
STATUS
Failed
H0647 - Equal Rights for Men and Women
Dotie Joseph, Joseph A. Casello, Ashley Viola Gantt
Last updated 7 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Ratifies proposed amendment to U.S. Constitution relating to equal rights for men & women.
STATUS
Failed
H0073 - Supported Decisionmaking Authority
Allison E. Tant, Traci Koster, Robin Bartleman
Last updated 3 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Requires court to consider needs & abilities of person with developmental disability when determining whether to appoint guardian advocate; provides requirements for petition to appoint guardian advocate; authorizes agent acting for principal to grant supported decisionmaking agreement; prohibits such agreement from acting as durable power of attorney; provides certain communications shall be recognized as communication of principal; provides requirements for examining committee member when determining incapacitated person's ability to exercise his or her rights.
STATUS
Passed
H1679 - Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network
Lawrence McClure, Michele Rayner-Goolsby, Anna V. Eskamani
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Requires DOS to contract with Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network for specified purpose; specifies functions that must be provided under contract; provides that certain expenses are eligible for funding under contract.
STATUS
Introduced
H0975 - Background Screenings and Certifications
Health & Human Services Committee, Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, Dana Trabulsy
Last updated 3 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Provides qualifications for person seeking certification as person with lived experience; requires continuum of care lead agencies to submit certain information to DCF for purposes of background screening; expands certain background screening requirements to apply to all health care practitioners; revises licensure, registration, or certification requirements for acupuncturists; optometrists; pharmacists; dentists; midwives; speech-language pathologists & audiologists; nursing home administrators; occupational therapists; respiratory therapists; dietitian/nutritionists; practitioners of orthotics, prosthetics, or pedorthics; electrologists; clinical laboratory personnel; medical physicists; genetic counselors; opticians; physical therapists; psychologists & school psychologists; clinical social workers, marriage & family therapists, & mental health counselors.
STATUS
Passed
H1227 - Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day
Bruce Antone, Doug Bankson, Webster Barnaby
Last updated 5 months ago
115 Co-Sponsors
Designates Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, which occurs on fourth Thursday in March, as legal holiday.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Florida district HD-109
COMMITTEES
Florida House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Ashley Viola Gantt was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received her B.A. degree in Political Science from Louisiana State University in 2005 and her J.D. from the Southern University Law Center in 2008. Gantt has worked as an Associate Attorney and as a solo Legal Practitioner. Her legal experience includes family law, personal injury, property law, and succession law. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Appleseed Project for Justice and Economic Opportunity.read less
OFFICES HELD
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