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Major bills await Florida Legislature's final day
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Legislature used its next-to-last day Thursday to pass a watered-down texting-while-driving ban, a plan to slim down the state-run Citizens Property Insurance and legislation that strips local governments of the power to...
Tags: Insurance, Crime, Law and Justice, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Justice System
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Fla. high court upholds nuclear-power surcharge law
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court rejected on Thursday the challenge to a controversial law that allows electric utilities to collect money from their customers for nuclear-power plants that won't be built for years — if ever. The...
Tags: Duke Energy Corporation, Crime, Law and Justice, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Justice System, Miami-Dade County
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Chan Lowe: Florida speeds up the death penalty process
The Florida Legislature has passed a bill called the “Timely Justice Act,” and has sent it up to Gov. Scott for his signature. This piece of legislation is designed to address the frustrations of law-and-order hawks who believe that the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Executive Branch, Politics, Government
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Polarizing anti-Sharia bill "effectively dead" in the Florida Senate
A polarizing bill designed to prevent the use of Islamic Sharia law in Florida courts appears doomed for the year, after it failed to gain enough support in the Senate on Thursday afternoon. The bill (HB 351), sponsored in the Senate by Lake County...Tags: Alan Hays, Elections, Politics, Lake County (Florida)
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Senate sends Citizens' bill to the governor
TALLAHASSEE --The Florida Senate sent a watered down version of its Citizens Property Insurance overhaul to Gov. Rick Scott Thursday that will attempt to shift policies to the private market. Lawmakers have been battling for more than two months how...Tags: Insurance, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Executive Branch, Government, Politics
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Mark Sessums: Senate alimony bill is anti-family
 It is simply and plainly false to claim that the Senate Alimony Bill is pro-family. The bill as a whole makes it much more difficult to make a claim for alimony in any marriage. This is not fair to any spouse that has modified their earning ability to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Family, Politics, Judges
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Senate approves Rick Scott's manufacturing tax break
In a possible sign that Gov. Rick Scott is ready to let ethics and campaign-finance bills become law, the Florida Senate finally moved Wednesday afternoon on one of his top priorities: A sales-tax break for manufacturing companies. On a 37-3 vote, the...Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Government, Religion and Belief
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Panel advances Daytona Speedway tax-break
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy Jason Garcia, Orlando Sentinel Days after International Speedway Corp. reported a first-quarter profit of $13.5 million, the Florida Senate on Monday began moving a bill that would give NASCAR promoter and racetrack owner nearly $100 million worth of... -
Matt Bogdanoff new Florida director for Republican Jewish Coalition
Sun SentinelMatthew Bogdanoff of Fort Lauderdale is the new Florida regional director for the Republican Jewish Coalition. Working from the organization’s Boca Raton office, he’ll have the whole state as his territory. The RJC announced the hiring...Tags: Television Industry, Barack Obama, LinkedIn Corp., Politics, Polls
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Former death row inmate urges governor to reject Timely Justice bill
If he could talk to Gov. Rick Scott, Seth Penalver would have one simple question. "Would you kill me?" Penalver, 40, was acquitted late last year on three counts of first-degree murder, the end of an 18-year saga that brought him from Broward...
Tags: Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Executive Branch, Politics
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Florida Legislature OKs $50M for cross-Florida trail
OrlandoSentinel.comAccording to news reports , Florida legislators have agreed to allocate $50 million to buy right of way to connect scattered trails to create a 275-mile trail network that would span the state from St. Petersburg to Titusville. The $50 million still could... -
Let us decide for ourselves
Even if you agree that government shouldn't tell business how to do business, a proposal in the Florida Legislature that would pre-empt local governments from exerting local control is bad public policy. At the moment, Florida businesses are...
Tags: Laws, Interior Policy, Theft, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch
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Apr 24, 2013
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