Lauren Melo

Voted for Senate Bill 56. Purposely releasing material into Florida's air to change weather, climate, temperature, or sunlight becomes a third-degree felony carrying up to five years in prison, with a fine up to $100,000, or up to $5,000 for aircraft operators and controllers. Public airports must report equipped aircraft, environmental officials must investigate reports, and Florida ends its weather-modification licenses and research power. The Florida House passed it 82-28, and it became law.

April 30, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 492. Wetland banks release credits on a fixed schedule: 30 percent after land protection and funding, 30 percent after construction, 20 percent at an interim target, and 20 percent at final success, or all credits for preservation-only banks. Created-wetland credits may come early, and applicants get one use of credits outside the service area when none are available inside it. The Florida House passed it 87-26, and it became law.

April 30, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 1080. It standardizes zoning application details, deadlines, and fee refunds; limits school-district fees charged in place of impact fees; and limits steep increases in impact fees, which fund public services. It also withdraws plan changes not formally adopted within 180 days after a second hearing and allows building-code fees and fines to pay for permit work. The Florida House passed it 84-29, and it became law.

April 30, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 700, a 92-section agriculture package. Water additives must meet drinking standards, remove pollutants, or improve water, ending dental fluoride used in about 29 counties; a local-choice amendment failed 13-21. It protects verified farmworker housing, gives the state first chance to buy utility farmland, controls charger permits, registers public chargers, bans some drones, and lists charities free of money or direction from hostile foreign sources. The Florida House passed it 88-27, and it became law.

April 29, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for the House version of House Bill 875. It orders updated teaching standards, one core teacher-training curriculum, a skills-based certification route called Coaching for Educator Readiness and Teaching, and common mentor rules. The House passed it 84-27; the final law also names two required courses, creates the Florida Center for Teaching Excellence at Miami-Dade College, and keeps the general-knowledge exam.

April 23, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 6025. It repeals the automatic ban on selling, displaying, or publicly carrying guns and ammunition during a local emergency caused by violence or disorder. The repealed section also said it did not authorize taking lawfully owned guns. The Florida House passed it 86-28, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 1205, requiring every paid or volunteer petition collector to register, live in Florida, be a United States citizen, and lack an unrestored felony. Invalid collectors' forms do not count; holding over 25 outside family is a third-degree felony; delivery drops from 30 days to 10 with $2,500 fines; forms need ID digits; voters get mailed verification and prepaid fraud-revocation forms. Invalidity over one-quarter triggers investigation, the RICO racketeering law may cover fraud, committees get one initiative, proposals expire after three elections below 25 percent, and state ads are barred; the House changed the Senate rewrite and passed it 81-30 into law.

May 1, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 903. Prisoners must finish prison appeals before suing, cannot claim only mental harm without physical injury or a listed sexual act, and have one year for poor-person petitions and injury suits. Discipline challenges create account liens for court costs; 10-20-Life gun terms run one after another, and another constitutional execution method may replace lethal injection if its chemicals become unavailable or impractical. The Florida House passed it 83-33, and it became law.

April 16, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted against House Bill 351. Dangerous excessive speeding means driving at least 50 miles per hour over the limit or at least 100 miles per hour while threatening people or property; first penalties reach 30 days and $500, then 90 days and $1,000. A second conviction within five years suspends driving for 180 days to one year, and anyone cited for more than 50 miles per hour over must attend a hearing. The Florida House passed it 75-38, and it became law.

April 23, 2025

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