FL S1724

Recognizes March 2016 as "Women's History Month" in Florida

Acknowledges women's contributions to labor force, volunteer work, and leadership in progressive social movements including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, and environmental justice

Highlights 2016 national honorees with Florida ties: Sonia Pressman Fuentes (co-founder of NOW, first woman attorney at EEOC), Nadine Smith (Equality Florida executive director), and Betty Mae Tiger Jumper (first female chief of the Seminole Tribe)

Honors Florida Women's Hall of Fame 2016 inductees: Carol Jenkins Barnett, Helen Aguirre Ferré, and Elmira Louise Leto

Recognizes pioneering women in the Florida Legislature, including Edna Giles Fuller (first woman in House, 1929), Beth Johnson (first woman Senator, 1962), Gwen Sawyer Cherry (first Black woman legislator, 1970), and Gwen Margolis (first woman Senate President in any state, 1990)