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Top Ranked 2025-26 Program Priorities

Voting in Orange County - Ensure that everyone has access and the ability to vote, educate our community on the importance of voting, and support Vote411.org

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Gun Violence Prevention – Mission: To educate and advocate for gun safety and gun violence prevention through a ban on all semi-automatic and large capacity ammunition magazines, comprehensive universal background checks and defeating gun legislation that increases access to guns by dangerous persons, at-risk suicidal people, and all children


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Natural Resources - Through education and action, we seek to promote clean energy as a deterrent to climate change, smart growth for regional development, successfully petitioning for the "Right to Clean Water" act, and promote campaign sign recycling.

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Education - Educate the public about the values, benefits, and importance of fully funding public schools. Advocate that all schools receiving public support in Florida be held to the same assessment and accountability standards as public schools.

Advocacy Action Plans

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility

  1. Make LWVOC a “Champion of DEIA”

  2. Promote Cultural Awareness

  3. Support Voter Education activities

  4. Explore an Eatonville partnership

Government Committee

  1. Continue Observer Corps for governing boards

  2. Continue support of all voter education, including the NPV and Interstate Compact  

  3. Promote LWVOC to be moderators of candidate forums

  4. Engage and educate voters about Vote 411

  5. Meet legislators and local leaders to discuss LWVOC priorities

  6. Invite guest speakers to meetings including local leaders, elected or appointed

Gun Violence Prevention

  1. Promote safe storage of firearms by sharing Public Service Announcement video and information

  2. Continue gun lock giveaways at community events

  3. Advocate against Open Carry and lowering the age of purchasing a long gun and rifle and guardian program in our schools.

  4. Advocate for Secure Storage Bills, and increasing funding for CVIP programs in FL, keeping only SROs in our schools

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Natural Resources

  1. CLEAN ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE 

    1. Obtain a commitment from OCPS to build one Zero-Energy prototype school building.

  2. CONSERVATION LANDS

    1. Smart growth in regional development

  3. WATER

    1. Orange County Fresh Water Society

    2. Collect 4000 petitions for RTCW Amendment

    3. Quarterly local shore clean-up

  4. ELECTION SIGN RECYCLING PROGRAM

    1. Continuation for special elections, etc.

  5. PARTNERSHIP with Barry University Environmental and Earth Law Clinic



Voter Services

  1. CONDUCT targeted voter registration events in low turnout areas
  2. EDUCATE people about voting importance and VOTE 411
  3. HOST Get-Out-the-Vote Programs
  4. STAFFS Polling Locations through the Adopt A Precinct Program

Women's Rights

  1. Inform the community and the membership of women’s issues at the local, state, and federal levels and provide ways to advocate for women’s rights
  2. Partner with the Florida League of Women Voters to promote women’s health
  3. Host webinars on women’s health issues and rights
  4. Advocate for and against bills impacting women’s rights in the 2025 legislative session
  5. Identify other opportunities to promote, advocate for, or women’s rights.

MEMBERS: You can expand your involvement with your other interests by joining committees at the state level.
Additional LWVFL committees include:

•  Affordable Housing    •  Ethics & Campaign Finance    •  Immigration   •  Juvenile Justice    •  Poverty

Learn more at https://www.lwvfl.org/issues/.

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LWVFL 2025 Legislative Priorities

The League of Women Voters of Orange County is a local league of the League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVFL). LWVFL is a grassroots organization that focuses on statewide issues that our members care the most about. Each year, membership is polled statewide to see which issues are most important to them at the current point in time. Every local League is given the opportunity to submit priorities. After tabulating each local League’s submissions, the top four areas become priorities for the annual state legislative session. If a particular issue has not made it into the allocated legislative priority spots, it does not mean the issue is not monitored or acted upon by our State League.

  • ●Voting Rights & Election Reform
  • ●Education
  • ●Reproductive Health & Justice
  • ●Gun Violence Prevention

Learn more about how our state league is working with each of these issues.

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LWVUS 2025 Legislative Priorities

To guide its work in Congress, the LWVUS Board adopts lobbying priorities every year. The goal is to maintain focus on issues of primary importance identified by LWVUS.

 

The LWVUS board approved the following priorities for 2025: 
  ●Implementing the campaigns for Making Democracy Work® and Women Defend Democracy, which includes advocating for policy issues, including defending voting rights protections, protecting DC autonomy, improving election administration, protecting against dark money in politics, and supporting the 2030 Census.

  ●Protecting democratic institutions and the rule of law.

  ●Protecting reproductive freedoms, access to abortion care, and ensure the right to make private reproductive health decisions.

  ●Responding strategically on issues like immigration, climate change, gun safety, Equal Rights Amendment, healthcare and attacks on DEI.


VISIT LWV.org for more information.