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A Florida House subcommittee unanimously supported a bill (HB 723) that would provide $250 to “recruiting assistants” for each new member referred to the Florida National Guard and an additional $250 upon a recruit’s enlistment.
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The Florida Building Commission says there is no reason they see to treat coastal and inland buildings differently. That was a key idea behind the post-Surfside law that passed in 2022.
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There will not be a special legislative session in Florida on gun violence this year.
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The bill would allow businesses to sue cities and counties if ordinances cause at least 15 percent losses of profits.
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Florida lawmakers are returning to Tallahassee to take up a slate of bills that would push back against the federal government’s vaccine mandates and limit local government authority to require COVID-19 immunizations.
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A series of bills were released as Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated what he sees as the need for the session, which will start Nov. 15. DeSantis appeared with House Speaker Chris Sprowls, R-Palm Harbor, and Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, at Bahrs Aluminum and Construction in Zephyrhills.
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Florida lawmakers marked the end of the 2021 legislative session on Friday. Representatives discussed a wide range of controversial issues from mail ballots to vaccination passports to protests.
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The gun control advocacy organization will host a drive-in rally in Orlando Friday against HB 1, that advanced to its third and final reading in the Florida House Thursday.
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Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature is back in session and eyeing new laws aimed at slowing climate change and sea level rise.
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Florida business groups have argued for years that retailers in the state are at a competitive disadvantage because out-of-state businesses aren’t collecting sales taxes.
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This is the Institute's 3rd edition of the report it first published nearly 2 decades ago.
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Warnings about violent protests at state capitols Sunday did not pan out in Tallahassee amid heightened security and increased law enforcement presence. Florida’s capitol grounds mostly saw journalists roaming about, and the occasional tourist and residents taking photos of the historic capitol building.