Ron DeSantis Announces Legislation to Protect Floridians from CBDC and Surveillance

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flgov.com: Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Legislation to Protect Floridians from a Federally Controlled Central Bank Digital Currency and Surveillance State (https://www.flgov.com/2023/03/20/governor-ron-desantis-announces-legislation-to-protect-floridians-from-a-federally-controlled-central-bank-digital-currency-and-surveillance-state/)
On March 20, 2023

Governor DeSantis’ first-in-the-nation proposal would amend Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code to explicitly prohibit the use of federal or foreign CBDC as money.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced comprehensive legislation to protect Floridians from the Biden administration’s weaponization of the financial sector through a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

The legislative proposal protects consumers and businesses from a federally controlled CBDC by:


Expressly prohibiting the use of a federally adopted Central Bank Digital Currency as money within Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
Instituting protections against a central global currency by prohibiting any CBDC issued by a foreign reserve or foreign sanctioned central bank.
Calling on likeminded states to join Florida in adopting similar prohibitions within their respective Commercial Codes to fight back against this concept nationwide.


“The Biden administration’s efforts to inject a Centralized Bank Digital Currency is about surveillance and control,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “Today’s announcement will protect Florida consumers and businesses from the reckless adoption of a ‘centralized digital dollar’ which will stifle innovation and promote government-sanctioned surveillance. Florida will not side with economic central planners; we will not adopt policies that threaten personal economic freedom and security.”

“Governor DeSantis is ahead of the curve when it comes to protecting individual rights. A Central Bank Digital Currency is the cornerstone of a federal government that could track each and every transaction that happens in the world,” said State Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. “There would be no privacy, and if there is no privacy, there are no rights. In the same way Florida is fighting back against the IRS, we need to fight back against this program. It’s how we protect freedom, liberty, and prosperity.”

“This proposal continues the strong track record of Governor DeSantis pushing back on an overreaching federal government,” said Foundation for Government Accountability CEO Tarren Bragdon. “Our money says In God We Trust. The central bank digital currency changes that to In Government We Trust. That’s wrong and I am grateful for the Governor’s continued pushback of an out-of-control DC bureaucracy.”

A federally controlled Central Bank Digital Currency is the most recent way the Davos elites are attempting to backdoor woke ideology like Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) into the United States financial system, threatening individual privacy and economic freedom. Unlike a decentralized digital currency, a CBDC is directly controlled and issued by the government to consumers, giving government bureaucrats the ability to see all consumer activity and the power to cut off access to goods and services for consumers.

Additionally, a federally sanctioned CBDC as proposed by the Biden administration would diminish the role of community banks and credit unions in our financial system as CBDC currency would be a direct liability of the Federal government, rather than of a chartered financial institution, shrinking market lending power.

Today’s announcement builds on a series of actions taken by the Governor to prevent the proliferation of woke ideology into the financial sector and American daily living and the Biden administration’s continued efforts to promote a central control state, including leading an alliance of 18 states to fight against Biden’s ESG financial fraud (https://t.e2ma.net/click/sbbp9k/kdr0vse/wusaaeb).


Relevant shorts clips from the press conference:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HwexNdwJPYY
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vHS5YYDte2c

[ziero0]

That is interesting. Flash back to the time specie was money. Then came the civil war and Lincoln printing interest free (to government) of paper notes. Four years later when people were attempting to pay their state bills with Lincoln's paper Iowa passed legislation to tell county treasurer's to keep two books, one for specie and one for paper. The net effect was to change Iowa from 99 counties to 198 counties. Now along comes crypto and the states must figure out how they handle the innovation. The original or paper substitute states remain. New states are constructed with the same or similar name but different operating rules.

Specie was unsustainable. Paper has failed. Crypto is next. Or rather than computer mining I expect money to be based on CO2 saving or consumption as a nod to global warming.

[keehah]

pymnts.com: Sen. Ted Cruz Introduces Bill Prohibiting Fed From Developing CBDC (https://www.pymnts.com/cbdc/2023/sen-ted-cruz-introduces-bill-prohibiting-fed-from-developing-cbdc/)
MARCH 22, 2023

Bills opposing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the U.S. have been introduced at both the federal and state level.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced a bill (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/887?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Ted+Cruz%22%5D%7D&s=2&r=1) Tuesday (March 21) that would prohibit the Federal Reserve from developing a direct-to-consumer CBDC.

“The federal government has no authority to unilaterally establish a central bank currency,” Cruz said in a Tuesday press release (https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-introduces-legislation-to-prohibit-the-fed-from-establishing-a-central-bank-digital-currency). “This bill goes a long way in making sure big government doesn’t attempt to centralize or control cryptocurrency and instead, allows it to thrive in the United States.”

Cruz previously (https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-introduces-legislation-prohibiting-unilateral-fed-control-of-a-us-digital-currency) introduced the bill a year earlier [cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cbdc.pdf (https://www.cruz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/cbdc.pdf)] , and both that bill and this year’s are co-sponsored by Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

The latest introduction of the bill came a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed legislation that would prohibit the use of both federal and foreign (https://www.pymnts.com/cbdc/2023/florida-gov-ron-desantis-proposes-banning-using-cbdcs-as-money/) CBDC as money and called on other states to do the same by adding such provisions to their uniform commercial codes.

Backers of the bill in the Senate said a direct-to-consumer CBDC could be used as a surveillance tool by the federal government, would centralize users’ financial information and leave it vulnerable to attack, and would lack cash’s benefits and protections and some existing cryptocurrencies’ control and security, according to the Tuesday press release.

“The American people ought to be able to spend their money how they choose without the possibility that every transaction could be tracked by the government,” Grassley said in the release. “Policy this impactful should be made by Congress, not government bureaucrats, and our bill would ensure that no one is snooping on the finances of hardworking Americans.”

This proposed bill comes about a year after President Joe Biden said that he would sign an executive order aimed at establishing a single, government-wide policy on cryptocurrencies and other digital assets and that the decision to create a CBDC (https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2022/bidens-executive-order-set-to-fast-track-crypto-policy/) — while not yet made — is a priority.

It also comes about six months after the Treasury Department delivered a future of money white paper to the Biden administration that had a great deal of space dedicated to the topic of what a U.S. CBDC would look like.

congress.gov/bill/118th-congress: S.887 - A bill to amend the Federal Reserve Act to prohibit the Federal reserve banks from offering certain products or services directly to an individual, and for other purposes. (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/887/text)

Text: S.887 — 118th Congress (2023-2024)All Information (Except Text)

As of 03/31/2023 text has not been received for S.887 - A bill to amend the Federal Reserve Act to prohibit the Federal reserve banks from offering certain products or services directly to an individual, and for other purposes.

Bills are generally sent to the Library of Congress from GPO, the Government Publishing Office, a day or two after they are introduced on the floor of the House or Senate. Delays can occur when there are a large number of bills to prepare or when a very large bill has to be printed.

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Oy Vey!

https://www.israel365news.com/369126/desantis-to-visit-israel-next-month/
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will deliver a keynote speech in front of 400 participants, including around 120 US Jewish philanthropists, at the "Celebrate the Faces of Israel" event in Jerusalem on April 27 sponsored by Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance.

[keehah]

ledgerinsights.com: Florida, North Carolina vote to restrict CBDC in different ways (https://www.ledgerinsights.com/cbdc-ban-florida-north-carolina/)
May 5, 2023

North Carolina CBDC ban

The North Carolina bill received a unanimous vote (https://openstates.org/nc/bills/2023/HB690/) from the State House and has been sent to the Senate. But the surprise is that a previous iteration of the bill from just days ago was targeting banning the use of cryptocurrencies for payments, not CBDC.

The version from 27 April states, “No State agency nor the General Court of Justice shall accept a payment using cryptocurrency.” In contrast, the 2 May wording that received the vote states, “No State agency nor the General Court of Justice shall accept a payment using central bank digital currency” and “No State Agency nor the General Court of Justice shall participate in any test of central bank digital currency by any Federal Reserve branch.”

We asked Representative Harry Warren, the original bill sponsor, about the u-turn. He said the latest bill targeting a CBDC “better represents the intent of the bill sponsors’ response to the federal movement toward creating a Central Bank Digital Currency.”

Notably, the North Carolina bill doesn’t impact the average person that might use a CBDC.

Florida: CBDC is not money

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been pushing back (https://www.ledgerinsights.com/governor-desantis-prohibit-cbdc/) on CBDC for some time, asserting that a federal digital dollar is “about surveillance and control”.

Both the Florida House and Senate have now passed his anti-CBDC bill (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/7054/?Tab=BillText). The House passed it this week with 116 votes in favor and one against.

However, the content of the Florida bill is more wide-reaching and far less straightforward than North Carolina’s. Florida now excludes CBDC from the definition of money. That means many legal protections that money might have do not apply to CBDC, making it risky to use, especially by businesses that are more likely to litigate these matters.

[Ares]

Maybe Zion Ron can fly to Israel to sign the CBDC ban?

[keehah]

wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Verify (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Verify)

E-Verify is a United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website that allows businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees, both U.S. and foreign citizens, to work in the United States.[1] No federal law mandates use of E-Verify.

E-Verify was originally established in 1996 as the Basic Pilot Program to prevent companies from hiring people who had violated immigration laws and entered the United States illegally.[2] In August 2007, DHS started requiring all federal contractors and vendors to use E-Verify. The Internet-based program is free and maintained by the United States government. Use of E-Verify at the state level varies; some states have mandated use of E-Verify or similar programs, while others have discouraged the program.

E-Verify compares information from an employee's Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 to data from U.S. government records. If the information matches, that employee is eligible to work in the United States.
natlawreview.com: Florida Bill 1718 Would Require Some Employers to Use E-Verify System (https://www.natlawreview.com/article/florida-bill-1718-would-require-some-employers-to-use-e-verify-system)

May 8, 2023
The Florida legislature recently passed Senate Bill (SB) 1718 (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1718) , which, if signed into law, would require both private employers with twenty-five or more employees and public employers in Florida to use the E-Verify system to verify the employment eligibility of new employees starting July 1, 2023. The Florida Senate enrolled the bill on May 2, 2023, and Governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign it into law...

Should the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) determine that an employer has failed to use the E-Verify system when it is required to do so, the department will notify the employer of the noncompliance. The notified employer will have 30 days to cure the noncompliance. If is the DEO determines that an employer failed to use the E-Verify system 3 times in any 24-month period, it may impose a fine of $1,000 per day until the employer provides satisfactory evidence that it has rectified the noncompliance.

Enforcement of the E-Verify law can be carried out by, amongst other entities, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
twitter.com/RepThomasMassie (https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1656258899765329924)

E-verify is a federal bureaucracy between you and your right to work for a living.

It can be cheated by dishonest people and won’t achieve it’s stated purpose.

It contains pilot programs for alternate verification (eg biometrics) and will be used to control Americans.
May 10, 2023