Last Senate committee before full Senate.

Florida Senate Rules Committee to consider American Laws for American Courts bill which would prohibit Sharia and other foreign laws.

The Florida Senate Rules Committee will consider SB 386 titled Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 between 4:00 and 6:00 pm. If approved by the Rules Committee this legislation should be scheduled for a vote by the full Florida Senate.

The Florida House Civil Justice Subcommittee approved the legislation by an 8 to 4 vote on March 19, 2014. The Florida Senate Judiciary Committee approved the legislation by an 6 to 3 vote on March 25, 2014. The Florida Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee approved the legislation by a 6 to 3 vote on April 3, 2014.

This legislation, commonly known as “American Laws for American Courts”, would prohibit Florida courts from considering certain provisions of foreign laws, including Islamic Sharia law, if such provisions are inconsistent with the Florida and United States of America Constitutions.

If Florida courts accept provisions of Islamic Sharia law or other foreign laws or legal codes which are inconsistent with American laws it will undermine public policies enacted by our representative form of government and change our value system.

Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases: Defines "foreign law, legal code, or system"; specifies public policy on application of foreign law, legal code, or system in proceedings relating to dissolution of marriage, support, time-sharing, UCCJEA, & UIFSA; provides that certain decisions rendered under such laws, codes, or systems are void; provides that certain contracts & contract provisions are void; provides for construction of waiver by natural person of person's fundamental liberties, rights, & privileges guaranteed by state or federal constitutions; provides that claims of forum non conveniens or related claims must be denied; provides that act doesn't require or authorize court to adjudicate, or prohibit any religious organization from adjudicating, ecclesiastical matters in violation of specified constitutional provisions or to conflict with any federal treaty or other international agreement to which U.S. is party to specified extent. Full text of SB 386.

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0386/BillText/Filed/HTML

ACTION ITEM

To send your email, please click the following link, enter your name and email address then click the "Send Your Message" button. You may also edit the subject or message text if you wish.

http://www.florida-family.org/take_action_desktop.php?message=169

Members of the Florida Senate Rules Committee are listed below for your information.

Committee on Rules

Members
Chair:
Senator John Thrasher (R)
Vice Chair:
Senator Christopher L. Smith (D)
• Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto (R)
• Senator Miguel Diaz de la Portilla (R)
• Senator Bill Galvano (R)
• Senator Andy Gardiner (R)
• Senator Jack Latvala (R)
• Senator Tom Lee (R)
• Senator Gwen Margolis (D)
• Senator Bill Montford (D)
• Senator Joe Negron (R)
• Senator Garrett Richter (R)
• Senator Jeremy Ring (D)
• Senator David Simmons (R)
• Senator Eleanor Sobel (D)

  The link below is provided should you wish to contact each member separately either via telephone or email.

http://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/RC/

This is the link to their agenda on the 9th. This bill is number 9 on the agenda

http://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/RC/ExpandedAgenda/2689

To reference the communication that was sent on this item on March 17th  please click on the link below.

http://fctpcommunity.org/profiles/blogs/action-item-american-laws-f...

NEW ITEM BELOW:

LOOK WHAT I FOUND WHILE I WAS RESEARCHING THE ABOVE

PLEASE LOOK AT ITEM 12 OF THE AGENDA WHERE THE RULES COMMITTEE IS SET TO VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION BILL..

Constitutional Convention/Single
-
Requirement for Federal Legislation; Applying to
Congress to call a convention for the purpose of
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States to provide that every law enacted by
Congress shall embrace only one subject, which shall
be clearly
expressed in its title, etc

Should you wish to take any action on this I encourage you to read the communication that went out earlier today authored by Vic Cirillo.

http://fctpcommunity.org/profiles/blogs/in-search-of-the-silver-bullet

We are almost home on SB386. Thank you so much for all your have done to make this happen for all citizens of Florida

God Bless You and May God Bless Our America

Leanne