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Governor DeSantis signs bills that strengthen protections for consumers, teachers, and employees

Photo courtesy of the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis

Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation to further strengthen Florida’s protections for consumers, teachers, and employees from being forced to adopt ideologies or reflect a preferred political behavior.

With today’s actions, Governor DeSantis is bolstering protections for:

  • Consumers, by providing recourse for individuals who believe they have been de-banked for political reasons;
  • Teachers, by ensuring they are not subjected to trainings that teach an ideology of hate, but instead focus on achieving mastery of academic content; and
  • Employees, by taking steps to prevent ideological discrimination or harassment in the workplace. 

Governor DeSantis signed HB 989 and HB 1291 into law. 

HB 989 does the following:

  • Increases protection for customers of financial institutions operating in Florida from unwarranted account cancellations and restrictions through a coordinated complaint and investigatory process within the Office of Financial Regulation.
  • Removes Florida’s exclusive preference of holding public funds with banks, particularly with out-of-state big banks, by allowing community-based credit unions to hold public funds.
  • Permits the Chief Financial Officer to have a dedicated consumer-liaison for assistance dealing with the Federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS).


HB 1291 does the following:

  • Prohibits teacher preparation programs from indoctrinating prospective teachers by teaching distorted versions of significant historical events; and
  • Prevents the infusion of identity politics in teaching methods and prohibits instructing that theories such as systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in America’s institutions.


Governor DeSantis is also working with the Attorney General’s office to bolster Florida’s protections from ideological discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Companies do not have a right to create a hostile work environment by forcing an employee to sit through trainings that tell that employee he or she is inherently racist or sexist. This includes efforts to mandate trainings meant to guilt employees or think less of themselves because of racial, religious, or social upbringing.

“We reject a global elite trying to force their ideology on us by capturing major institutions,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone’s political or religious beliefs, and we will continue to fight back against indoctrination in education and the workplace.”

“For too long, credit unions were barred from participating in Florida’s Qualified Depositor program, which didn’t make sense,” said Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. “Government entities should have more tools in their toolbox for maximizing taxpayer returns, and by opening it up to credit unions, we’ll not only bolster competition but give banks more incentive to drop the woke nonsense and focus on returns. Thanks to Governor DeSantis, Florida is where woke goes to die, and we were proud to partner with him and his team in getting this important legislation over the finish line.”

  • We are going to protect your freedom by limiting what you can hear and forcing others to do your bidding.

    • Sam: you lie! You don’t see any face diapers in that photo!

      Please load up on your C1984 vax boosters to protect yourself and go to your safe place!

      My body, my choice‼️

      Say NO to vax passports! No WHO, No WEF, No commi global totalitarianism. No great reset!

      • Pink, you’re a belligerent dummy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

        “How the Cochrane Review went wrong. Report questioning COVID masks blows up, prompts apology

        The Cochrane Review has apologized for an evidence review that led many to conclude, inaccurately, that masks don’t work.

        The idea that masks don’t help slow COVID is an “inaccurate and misleading interpretation” of the report they published in January, Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, wrote in an update posted to the their website on Friday. …”

        https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/how-the-cochrane-review-went-wrong-report-questioning-covid-masks-blows-up-prompts-apology/article_80b67196-5872-5b1a-a208-b0a525f8de5b.html

        Cochrane studied results of handing out masks, not actually wearing them. Less than 10% of those receiving them wore them in their study.

        A larger study (178k in intervention group v 163k in control group) where actual wearing of masks was measured had positive results:

        “CONCLUSION
        A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the intervention increased mask usage and reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections, demonstrating that promoting community mask-wearing can improve public health.”

        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036942/

    • How is this forcing others to do anything they don’t want to do? It is just protecting people from being forced to believe what you believe. I won’t force my beliefs on you but you need to give me the same courtesy.

  • No one should be mandated to endure a hostile work environment – thank you, Gov. DeSantis! Florida is getting even brighter!

    I applaud opening up the opportunity for credit unions to participate in providing banking services for public funds. The big banks have way too much influence over social policy, and this law is a smart way to start to reduce their reach.

    So much good news in these protections!

  • As if the Governor and his minions in the legislature are ideologically neutral instead of reactionaries eager to teach the benefits of slavery and force courses in schools on Communism – you know, that ideology that no countries in the world except isolated and crackpot North Korea practices or promotes. You missed that bus Governor. It came by here about 40 years ago.

    Yeah, yeah, I know the Chinese Dictator Party calls itself The Communist Party but there’s nothing Marxist in their practices, promotions, or running of their country except the dictator part. There are no more communes in China – citizens are on their own – and the economy is a form of hyper capitalism with state backed entrepreneurs.

    • No but if the CCP dont like what you say about their government they will throw you and your family in prison. Ask those Chinese workers that exposed the real cause of the China plague. Remember how they ran people over with tanks, remember how they killed off Females at birth to promote the Male population all in the name of Communism. If you do not like Desantis which you seem to troll all the time then move. There is plenty of space in California, New York, Washington State, and Michigan you can build your buildings to your hearts desire, plus they have all the Covid rule that you love so much. You canlive in a blue state without having to troll DeSantis and the next Republican Governor after him.

      • Doofus, your irrelevant comments aside – China is not a communist despite their ruling dictator party clinging to the name – I’ve been here a very long time, and unlike most of the posters here like you, I love it here, this county, and it’s central city. I’ve lived and worked in our rural areas farming and loved that too. Puny DeSantis with his short man’s disease will come and is almost gone, with many to most of his most noteworthy edicts being tossed by the courts. I think you should leave and go to that MAGA heaven in central Alabama, or wherever it is where you’ll feel more comfortable and won’t have to live indebted to the city and university that drive county economics.

        Good luck.

        • It’s fixing to be MAGA Heaven everywhere. I have more vested in this than you ever know. I have been here since 1984 so I’m not going anywhere. I’ve manage to turn several demoncrats into Trumpsters over the the past year. Every vote counts.

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