TAMPA, Fla. — Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers from Orlando will promote a proposal called the 'Welcoming Florida Act.'

The bill (SB 1598), proposed by state Sen. Victor Torres, is aimed at overturning some of the strict immigration laws put into place last legislative session.

The bill would repeal provisions relating to patient status data collected by hospitals and eliminate the requirement that an employer terminate a person after learning they have no legal status in the state. 

It would also protect people from the unauthorized practice of immigration law.

Julia Aguayo De Hassler, founder of the group, ‘Libertad, Club Hispano Republicano of Pasco County,’ says these types of bills don’t help to strengthen the immigration system in the state.

 “It is important to realize there is a difference between the people that have been here for years and those people that this administration have let come by the thousands without properly being vetted,” she said.

Those in favor of this bill say it would be a step in the right direction for the immigrant community and combat current legislation that criminalizes those who are transporting people living in the country illegally.

“What is does is it seems to clear up some misconceptions and probably some things that would have been challenged,” said immigration attorney Danielle Hernandez.

The bill could face an uphill battle with a republican supermajority in the Florida legislature, but it’s not the only immigration bill proposed.

There is also Senate Bill 1036, which would impose harsher criminal charges for immigrants who were previously deported and then arrested for illegally re-entering the U.S.

Meantime, Senate Bill 598 urges the federal government to secure the southern border and “fix the legal immigration system.”