Governor Ron DeSantis signs legislation to combat terrorist groups and ban Sharia law in Florida
Press release from the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis
TAMPA, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1471, legislation strengthening protections against the application of foreign and religious laws — including Sharia law — that violate constitutional rights and establishing new safeguards against terrorist organizations operating in Florida.
“To uphold the rule of law, our state must operate under one legal system, the Constitution must remain the law of the land, and we must defend our institutions from those who would harm us — especially terrorist organizations that seek to infiltrate and subvert our education system,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “HB 1471 reinforces these principles in Florida, and I was proud to sign it into law today.”
Florida has taken a consistent approach to protecting its institutions and residents from foreign influence and emerging threats. In December, Governor DeSantis signed an executive order directing state agencies to take all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activity by terrorist organizations, including denying contracts, funding, and other benefits to those providing material support. The state has also strengthened oversight of foreign influence in education, prohibited partnerships with foreign adversaries tied to state institutions, and expanded law enforcement tools to respond to evolving threats.
HB 1471 reinforces that Florida courts may not apply or enforce foreign or religious law if doing so would violate constitutional rights. The legislation also blocks foreign judgments, contracts, or legal provisions that attempt to bypass those protections.
The bill strengthens Florida’s counterterrorism framework by authorizing the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Chief of Domestic Security to recommend the designation of domestic terrorist organizations. It also ensures that foreign terrorist organizations recognized at the federal level can be enforced at the state level. Once designated, these organizations are subject to strict prohibitions, including bans on public funding and support, and individuals who provide material support face significant criminal penalties.
Additionally, the legislation increases accountability in education by prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds to support or promote terrorist organizations. Institutions that violate these provisions may face loss of state funding, and students who promote terrorist violence may face disciplinary action.
HB 1471 builds on Florida’s ongoing efforts to ensure that its courts operate under one system of law, its institutions remain free from harmful foreign influence, and its communities are protected from threats to public safety.
Yet another performative and silly stance taken for the governor of the so-called Free state of Florida. News flash; Trump still dislikes you, and you’ll never hold political office again.
Misty, take a trip to Afghanistan and get back with us. I will never understand how any woman born in the United States could/would support Sharia law.
What makes you think I support it? Try reading my post again.
Cool…
“To uphold the rule of law, our state must operate under one legal system, the Constitution must remain the law of the land….”
Dude, there’s this cat living on the south tip of Palm Beach regularly violating the constitution and getting away with it. Currently he’s terrorizing another country, bombing schools and bridges, and threatening to bomb electric plants and sending the citizens back to the Stone Age.
Arrest him!
It’s amazing how your TDS clouds your memory and judgment in daily life. Do you have a driver, I hope?
Translating realJK:
“Like Bear, I don’t a have coherent thought in my brain, let alone an argument about current events so I’ll just use the retreaded Republican slogan from 2004, substituing T for the B in BDS.
No thinking required!”
Explain all the high ranking Iranian leaders relatives here in this country. Given the fact mist of the female relative are really following Muslim beliefs and sharia law. NOT. Talk about hypocrites. They would be stoned to death in their precious Iran. Is that what we want in Florida? No Iprefer females be protected from extreme ideology and beliefs.
Better hurry! This nut job terrorist just said a ‘whole civilization will die tonight”.
Hes was already responsible for millions of deaths before he started bombing Iran, so save Florida’s good name Governor, by putting out a warrant on him.
This so called Terrorist is still your President for 3 more years. Your TDS is off the chain. Please seek help before you say something tgmhat will require a secret service visit.
Yeah, big risk there Bear, but hey you live in fear and believe all the BS the Palm Beach Terrorist gins up, and now Shariah law, as if Ronnie’s book bannings, corraling of gays, and rounding up citizens and shooting them isn’t the closest thing we’ve seen here. Don’t expect all of us to cower under our beds because that’s what you choose.
Boo!
Looks & sounds like Ronnie has revitalized his run for President after the criminals are removed.
The Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) ACT?….has a well-documented and extensive history of anti-Muslim statements that have drawn widespread condemnation. Here’s an overview:
Key incidents:
∙ In December 2025, during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing, Fine declared that “mainstream Muslims should be destroyed,” and proudly amplified the clip on social media — an unambiguous call for violence against an entire religion.
∙ In February 2026, Fine posted on X: “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,” prompting calls for his resignation from Democrats and major Islamic civil rights groups.
∙ In January 2025, Fine wrote that he was working on “the need to solve America’s #MuslimProblem.” In May 2025, he suggested on national television that the U.S. should use nuclear weapons against Gaza.
∙ Fine has publicly identified himself as a supporter of Islamophobia and called for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the United States.
Don’t let hate win! Vote them out.
I love dogs🐕…dogs are great!
What does dog spell backwards?
Some people get so unhinged when government provides for the national defense….
We are a nation of laws with borders….you need to be here legally.
There has been a well-documented and extensive extensive history of anti Trump and anti Desantis statements here by jealous haters like Jazzhole & invitado…
I think you should be arrested when you wear your face masks😷
At your 🚫👑 rally’s…
you commis are a bunch of left brain idiots.
Don’t interfere with ICE doing their jobs. FAFO.
“The Trump administration has prioritized quantity over quality in its mass deportation campaign, diverting attention from apprehending hardened criminals to removing people who positively contribute to American society. The case of Annie Ramos is worth looking at closely because it shows the human cost of this misguided approach.
Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank said he brought his wife, Annie Ramos, 22, to his base in Fort Polk, Louisiana, last Thursday so that she could begin the process to receive military benefits and take steps toward a green card. The couple married in March.
Last week, Ramos, a 22-year-old biochemistry student, arrived at Fort Polk in Louisiana with her husband Matthew Blank, a 23-year-old Army staff sergeant. They came with her Honduran passport and birth certificate to get a military ID and activate her spousal benefits. Instead, she was arrested and is now being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement lockup.
Ramos was brought to the United States as an infant, and she did her best to follow the rules as she grew older. Yet she was detained over a 2005 deportation order that was issued in absentia when she was 22-months old.
Ramos applied for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2020, but her application was never processed. She may have arrived here illegally, but clearly she has lived her life in a way that benefits the country. Ramos teaches Sunday school at her church and was months from getting her degree….”
WaPo today
She applied in 2020. Biden’s watch jazzy……
tRump was in charge in 2020 president Biden became president on January 20 2021
Besides for not knowing when our elections are held Bear, you seem to think it’s normal to arrest people like this woman right after marrying a US Army seargeant for no GD reason. After Trump apparently flubbed her app in 2020, Biden didn’t arrest her during his 4 years.
The point is your guy promised he was going after the immigrant criminals – immigrants commit less crimes than our own people dummy – but instead he goes after Sunday School teachers on Army bases majoring in bio-chemistry. That’s typical because most of their arrested so far have no criminal records, not that you would know the difference.
Hey, maybe she and her seargeant husband were going to start mixing meth on the base.
Idiots!
Invitado,
This article is not about someone you don’t like; it is about protecting the CITIZENS of Florida and our US Constitution from religious manics.
Then let’s apply the 25th amendment before it’s too late. No maniacs period.
You didn’t make tgat argument when there was a dementia patient in charge of this country and a unfit back up VP from 2020 to 2024. Hell no democrats want to say they know her or tampon tim.
“Jizz”, “tampons”. WTH is wrong with you?
Look at the scoreboard Dude – not the daily lies your hero posts about how great he’s doing – and tell us who’s unfit. His portfolio is doing great, Was that the goal?
If you and Jizz like the Muslim customs and Sharia law go on and live that lifestyle elsewhere. Better yet get a couple of plane tickets ans go to Iran and protest President Trump on a bridge or in front of a power plant. I dare ya.
Bear, you and your buddy Jizz will believe anything the terrorist moron tells you, including that the murdered citizens in Minneapolis were terrorists. What a fool. Well, let’s hope he’s BSing on his threatened terrorist acts in the ME or he should be rounded up and locked up for war crimes and murder, along with his supposed Christian Sec of Tough Talk .
WWJD?
“Bomb them back into the stone ages.”
I don’t think so.
The only people killed in Minneapolis where two criminals that resisted law enforcement and decided that playing stupid games would get them stupid prizes. How many other murders/ negligent deaths have taken place across this country by illegals. We have enough issues with black on black crime in this country. The ridiculous thing about these illegal aliens committing crimes in this country is the fact none of crime would have occurred if they were not trespassing in our country.
Neither of those murdered in Minneapolis resisted law enforcement you cretin, but even if they did, shooting into a vehicle and shooting someone in the back 6 times are not proper law enforcement responses except in Iran. You’d be more comfortable there.
AIPAC lobby is at it again. The good ole Muslim boogeyman…