TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – A bill that would allow local governments to restrict smoking at beaches and public parks could be changed to exclude cigars and pipes.
The Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee are expected to consider the bill (SB 224) and the proposed amendment during a meeting Monday. Under current law, the state controls the regulation of smoking throughout Florida.
Florida bill would ban protests similar to demonstrations outside Laundrie’s North Port home
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Two Florida lawmakers have proposed a bill to prevent protests outside of homes similar to the demonstrations that raged on for months at the family home of Brian Laundrie.
The proposed law, sponsored by state Sen. Keith Perry (R-Gainesville) and Sen. Jim Boyd (R-Bradenton), would make picketing outside of someone's home a second-degree misdemeanor.
'A Mandate for Musical Chairs': Florida Bill Would Require Colleges to Change Accreditors
In practice, though, requiring colleges to change accreditors would create an enormous bureaucratic burden for the colleges, take up to 2 years of time for college staff, and cost tens of thousands of dollars for each institution.
"They can't just automatically go to another accreditor. It's not like just going from Kroger's to Publix when you can't find something you want," said Belle S. Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges.
Florida bill allows lottery winnings of $250,000 and above to stay confidential | WEAR
Florida Senate passes bills on addiction, child hearing aid coverage
The legislation included approving new state legislative districts, authorizing schools to stock and use medicines to counteract an opioid overdose, and requiring insurance companies to provide hearing aid coverage for children.
The Senate unanimously passed the redrawn maps for the 40 Senate districts and 120 House districts the day after the House approved them on a party-line vote. The governor doesn’t need to approve the new districts.
Legislative session sees voter reform frustration
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers aren't slowing down as they wrap up the fourth week of the legislative session.
Florida's mobile sports betting program was put on hold last year after a federal judge ruled against the new Seminole gaming compact. Many bet a ballot initiative would change things, but the effort went bust.
Florida lawmakers eye new cybersecurity requirements for public sector - StateScoop
Legislation introduced Thursday in the Florida House of Representatives would give public-sector agencies across the state more cybersecurity-related responsibilities, including requirements to report ransomware attacks and other incidents to state authorities and annual cyber hygiene training
Florida legislators set on erasing the state's distressing racist legacy | Fred Grimm - South
I read the book twice. Still remember the pen-and-ink illustrations of the flintlock-armed adventurer in pursuit of villainous savages back in the late 1700s, when mountainous West Virginia was still the untamed, westernmost portion of Virginia.
But Lew's fans (who apparently include latter-day white supremacists) need not worry that modern-day students might be exposed to a less-heroic version.
