Restore Sound Money in Florida With SB 132 and HB 999
Legislative Alerts
Members of the Florida Legislature are seeking to enact SB 132 and HB 999, which would help restore sound money and enforce the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions.
Contact your state legislators
Please help enact SB 132 and HB 999 by contacting your state legislators. Urge them to support strong legislation that enforces the U.S. Constitution and restores sound monetary policy.
Why it Matters
URGENT: Legislation has been introduced in both the state House and Senate to restore sound money in Florida. Contact your state representative and senator, and urge them to support SB 132 and HB 999.
Members of the Florida Legislature are seeking to enact legislation to help restore sound money and enforce the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions.
Senate Bill 132 (SB 132) is sponsored Senator Ana Rodriguez (R-Doral), and House Bill 999 (HB 999) is sponsored by Representatives Doug Bankson (R-Apopka) and Monique Miller (R-Melbourne Beach). If enacted, these bills would officially recognize specie (including gold and silver) as legal tender and allowing state and local governments to accept payments in gold and silver — thus bringing Florida closer to constitutional compliance and treating gold and silver as money. Furthermore, SB 132 include provisions that would allow non-U.S.-minted gold and silver coins to be recognized as legal tender, further weakening Fed control.
SB 132 and HB 999 are a great first step toward enforcing the Constitution’s monetary provisions. Article I, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution plainly states that “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” It’s long overdue that states begin to enforce this provision once again.
Additionally, these bills are an important step toward nullifying the unconstitutional Federal Reserve, which has a monopoly on money, and also reducing Florida’s financial dependence on the federal government. It will also help Florida avoid the federal government’s planned “Central Bank Digital Currencies,” which severely threaten privacy and individual freedom.
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution obligates state officials to uphold the Constitution and nullify all laws not “made in Pursuance” of it. Officials at all levels of government must push back against the federal government’s many unconstitutional laws and agencies, and robustly enforce the Constitution and only those laws “made in Pursuance thereof.” SB 132 and HB 999 are an excellent model for other states to follow.
Urge your state representative and senator to support SB 132 and HB 999, and to fully restore sound money in Florida.