Mack Bernard

Voted for Florida's 2025-2026 state budget when the Senate approved the conference committee's final version 34-0 (Senate Bill 2500).

June 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

Source: flsenate.gov · researched August 21, 2026

Voted for the Senate version of 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. The Senate passed it 26-8; the final law also withdraws plan changes not formally adopted within 180 days after a second hearing and allows building-code fees for permit work.

April 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Filed a bill barring landlords of affordable-housing units from raising rent during a lease term (Senate Bill 382); it died in committee in June 2025.

January 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: flsenate.gov · researched August 20, 2026

Voted against CS/HB 1205 at the vote that completed its passage. The bill tightened Florida's citizen petition process for amending the state constitution. All petition circulators must register with the state and be Florida residents and citizens. An unregistered person holding more than 25 signed forms, beyond their own and their immediate family's, commits a third-degree felony. The deadline to turn in signed forms dropped from 30 days to 10, with fines up to $2,500 per late form. Signers must add a driver license number, state ID number, or the last four Social Security digits. A sponsor may run only one amendment at a time, and petition fraud can be charged as racketeering. The state may no longer pay for ads about proposed amendments. The Senate agreed 28-9 and it became law as Chapter 2025-21.

May 2, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted against 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, and judges may order 10-20-Life gun terms to run after a sentence for a companion felony not on that list. It also rewrites inmate mental health law, requiring a competent inmate's express and informed consent to treatment, and allows another constitutional execution method if lethal-injection chemicals become impossible or impractical to obtain. The Florida Senate passed it 26-11, and it became law.

April 29, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted against House Bill 1219. The CHOICE Act lets workers earning over twice their county's average wage, except licensed health care practitioners, sign deals lasting up to four years that pay them to avoid rivals or bar rival work, and says these are not trade restraints. Courts must temporarily stop similar work unless strong evidence shows it differs or the employer stopped agreed pay and benefits. The Florida Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 24, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted against 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 Senate passed it 27-9, and it became law.

April 16, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026

Voted against 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 Senate passed it 28-9, and it became law.

April 3, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 27, 2026