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The contributions during the first three months of 2025 went to the Smart & Safe Florida committee, which is gathering signatures to get a revised constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot.

Opponents filed the lawsuits last month in various parts of the state and sought to invalidate the failed abortion-rights ballot measure.

The complaint, citing a recent state investigation, alleges more than 16% of the signatures are invalid and that multiple state elections supervisors failed to conduct a sufficient review.

The deputy secretary of state has asked election supervisors in Hillsborough, Orange, Osceola and Palm Beach counties to gather roughly 36,000 signatures to review.

In addition to reaching the petition threshold, Floridians Protecting Freedom accomplished a requirement to meet signature thresholds in at least half of the state’s 28 congressional districts.

Justices will take on the issue Feb. 7. Arguments will center on whether the court should approve the wording of the proposed constitutional amendment and allow it on the November ballot.

Supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure abortion rights in Florida continue moving closer to submitting enough signatures to get on the 2024 ballot.

The proposed constitutional amendment would bar laws that restrict abortion “before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s health care provider.”

The political committee Floridians Protecting Freedom must submit at least 891,523 valid petition signatures to get an amendment aimed at ensuring abortion rights on the 2024 ballot.

Despite an executive order that bars mask mandates, there is a petition that asks school board members whether they’d risk their lives by spending a day in schools if they were neither masked nor vaccinated.