Economic Prosperity & Anti-Poverty Solutions

Open Financial Empowerment Centers, launch a Living Wage City framework, provide worker legal aid, expand workforce pipelines, and attach community-benefit standards to incentives.

Florida preempts local minimum wage setting under F.S. 218.077, and HB 433 with SB 742 blocks local wage and hiring mandates on contractors and incentive recipients.

The city can fund counseling, convene training pipelines, and condition incentives through negotiated community benefits. It cannot impose a citywide contractor wage regime outside state law.

HB 433 / SB 742 — Local wage and hiring mandate preemption

State law limits local governments from imposing independent wage floors and certain local-hiring conditions on contractors.

SB 170 (2023) — Expanded litigation leverage against local ordinances

Florida expanded mechanisms that allow challengers to halt local ordinances during litigation.

As House Ways & Means ranking member, she negotiated a permanent diaper-tax exemption into the 2023 package, but no standalone local economic-development authority changed.

Build Financial Empowerment Centers, publish a voluntary living-wage certification, and use procurement transparency, training commitments, and incentive scoring instead of binding wage mandates.