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During the hearing, Democrats on the committee became frustrated as they rephrased and re-asked questions, but said they felt they weren’t getting a direct response. Despite the protest, Republicans in the Senate Health Policy Committee voted to give Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo their support.
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Redrawing district maps. More money for the Everglades. And someone found the original blueprints for Henry Flagler’s railway to Key West.
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Florida is jumping into an increasingly heated fray over what learning materials students should be exposed to in the classroom. A plan by state Republican Senator and Florida GOP Chairman Joe Gruters requires school boards to create and publicly post their processes for adopting items like library books—and to create ways for parents to request the removal of content they don’t like.
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A Florida Senate judiciary committee is expected to take up legislation that builds up the state’s immigration enforcement.
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Gov. DeSantis calls Florida a "free state" in his annual address this week. But one Democrat vying for his job says he’s like a dictator.
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Florida lawmakers are tasked every legislative session with passing a budget for the next fiscal year. And for the last four decades the government spending watchdog organization Florida TaxWatch has been monitoring how those dollars are spent.
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The first week of the legislative session is here. Urban farms hope to solve food deserts in Palm Beach County. And cruise ships continue sailing during omicron.
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The first week of the legislative session is here. Urban farms hope to solve food deserts in Palm Beach County. And cruise ships continue sailing during omicron.
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In the first week of the Florida legislative session, a bipartisan state Senate committee will consider moving a draft U.S House district map and a state Senate map forward to a floor vote.
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A plan that would allow local ordinances to get automatically blocked if they’re challenged is moving ahead. The proposal goes hand-in-hand with another measure that would let businesses sue local governments over policies that cause a revenue loss of 15% or more. Local government groups say the bill is better, but they’re still worried about its impact.
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In his State of the State address Tuesday in the Capitol, Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out a red-meat 2022 legislative agenda on crime and immigration, and he ridiculed COVID-19 restrictions in other states as ineffective and anti-American.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis largely stuck to priorities that he has outlined in recent weeks, such as providing a $1 billion gas tax break to motorists, boosting pay and providing bonuses for teachers, revamping elections laws and being a “law and order state.”