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Fracking Scorecard–Florida Legislature

How did Florida House members vote on Fracking? In the 2012-13 Florida legislative session, there was only one vote on fracking, and that on a
disingenuous pair of bills. On those bills all Republicans and almost half of all Democrats voted in favor of fracking.

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Following are the 2012-13 Florida House Committee votes on HB 743 (“Fracturing Chemical Usage Disclosure Act”) and HB 745. (“Public
Records/Fracturing Chemical Usage Disclosure Act”). HB 743 would have required oil producers in Florida to register hydraulic fracturing
chemicals with a public database and.the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with OSHA regulations. HB 745 would
have exempted any trade secrets so registered from disclosure under Florida public records laws.

In 2012 House committees voted in favor of these two bills as per the table below. The whole House then passed HB 743 with only 19 23 of 38 44
voting Democrats in opposition [ updated 12-8-13 to include 6 late votes ].

However the bills died in Florida Senate committees, reportedly principally because of objections to the “public records bill”, HB 745. The bills
never came to a floor vote in the Senate, and left a scant voting record.

These two bills have been re-introduced into the 2013-14 session essentially unaltered by Rep. Ray Rodrigues (R-Estero) as HB 71 and HB 157.

Proponents argued that the disclosure bill would protect the public from the use of dangerous fracking chemicals, and that it was necessary to
exempt trade secrets from public records disclosure to reassure the oil companies that their trade secrets would be protected.

Opponents argued that (a) hydraulic fracturing is only one of many “unconventional oil recovery techniques” that might use dangerous chemicals
and (b) that it is the least likely to be used in Florida; that (c) the bills are superfluous in that (d) the OSHA regulations on which the disclosure bill
depends already require disclosure of hazardous chemicals to protect well workers and (e) already exempt the disclosure of “trade secret”
chemicals, thereby (f) failing to adequately disclose hazardous chemicals and (g) failing to protect the public. Moreover, opponents argue, (g) the
mandated database is not public but is in fact funded by the oil industry while (h) the public records bill would further endanger the public by
preventing even courts from disclosing publicly hazardous chemicals that have been arbitrarily and unilaterally declared to be “trade secrets” by the
industry. In sum, opponents charge that the bills are disiningenuous legislation, modeled on other, similar legislation introduced in other states on
behalf of the oil companies to bestow immunity on the oil companies while giving the public a false sense of security.

Preserve Our Paradise concurs with the opponents on most of the preceding points and finds such legislation to be poor public policy. Therefore, in
the following scorecard, a “1” is a vote against the bill and in favor of the environment and a “-1ʺ is a vote for the bill and against the environment.

District Overall HB HB
Score 743 745
Votes: Floor Ag/Nat State No Ag/Nat Gov. State
Vote Agri- Resource Affairs floor Resource Ops. Affairs
culture vote

Representatives
Republicans -4
(unanimous)
Democrats
Antone, Bruce 46 1 1 1
Berman, Lori 90 1 1 1
Bracy, Randolph 45 -1
Campbell, 108 -1 -1 -1
Daphne
Castor Dentel, 30 1
Karen
Clarke-Reed, 92 -1
Gwyndolen
Clelland, Michael 29 1
Cruz, Janet 62 -1 -1
Danish, Mark 63 1 1 1
Dudley, Dwight 68 -1 -1 -1
Edwards, Katie 98 -3 -1 -1 -1 -1
Fullwood, Reggie 13 -1 -1 -1

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Gibbons, Joseph 100 1

Jones, Mia 14 -1 1 -1
Jones, Shevrin 101 -1 -1 -1
Kerner, Dave 87 -1 -1 -1
Lee, Larry 84 -3 -1 -1 -1 -1
Moskowitz, Jared 97 -1
Murphy, Amanda 36
Pafford, Mark 86 1
Powell, Bobby 88 -1 -1 -1
Pritchett, Sharon 102 1 1 1
Rader, Kevin 81 -1 1 1 -1 -1
Rangel, Ricardo 43 -1 -1 -1 1 -1
Reed, Betty 61 -3 1 -1 -1
Rehwinkel 9 1
Vasilinda,
Michelle
Richardson, 113 1
David
Rodriguez, Jose’ 112 1
Rogers, Hazelle 95 -1
Rouson, Darryl 70 1 -1 1
Saunders, Joe 49 -1
Schwartz, Elaine 99 1
Slosberg, Irving 91 1 1 1
Stafford, Cynthia 109 1 1 1
Stark, Richard 104 1 1
Stewart, Linda 47 1 1 1 -1
Taylor, Dwayne 26 1 1 1 1 -1
Thurston, Perry 94 1 1
Torres, Victor 48 1
Waldman, James 96 -1 -1 -1
Watson, Barbara 107 1
Watson, Clovis 20 -4 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
Williams, Alan 8 -1
Zimmerman, Carl 65 -1

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