Fla. Senate Approves Right To Speak Bill
A unanimous vote in the Florida Senate Tuesday would give citizens the right to be heard, and not just seen, at local government and state agency meetings.
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A unanimous vote in the Florida Senate Tuesday would give citizens the right to be heard, and not just seen, at local government and state agency meetings.
The Florida Legislature has essentially killed a plan from Governor Rick Scott to expand Medicaid coverage to roughly 1 million of Florida's poorest residents as part of the Affordable Care Act.
On the first say of regular session, the Florida Senate unanimously approved a sweeping series of ethics reforms for legislators and other public officials, even dumping a provision that would have delayed an anti-lobbying measure until after the 2014 elections.
Governor Rick Scott went before a joint legislative session for the third time in office to deliver the State of the State address with what he described as one simple message, "it's working."
In the 2000 presidential recount, Florida was the poster child for bad elections. Twelve years later, the state was once again used as an example as how not to run an election.
One of the best things about buying products online is the lack of sales tax if it isn't sold in the state.
Gov. Rick Scott showed Floridians how much he earns a year -a whopping $0.12. That's right, Floridians will finally get a chance on their own to find out how much people are getting paid to work for the Florida Legislature.
As Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers get ready to decide whether to extend health insurance to nearly 1 million Floridians as part of the federal health care overhaul, they may want to consider what a great deal they get on insurance for their families.
"Bill Nelson…Fighting for Florida," that's the tag line for Senator Bill Nelson's television ad campaign in his race for the senate. The two term senator is also fighting to keep his job. He's up against Republican Congressman Connie Mack, right now…polls show the race is pretty tight.
Mandy Dawson once represented parts of South Florida in the state Senate. Now, she could will be spending 6 months in federal prison, despite a plea that she be allowed to be spared time behind bars.
A circuit judge in Tallahassee will hold a hearing Wednesday on a challenge to the Legislature's congressional redistricting plan.
A redrawn Florida Senate re-districting map is being sent to the state's highest court.
A revised redistricting map created by the Florida Senate during a special session goes to the Florida House on Tuesday.
A flurry of last minute amendments were added to a Florida Senate redistricting map which reached the floor Thursday for debate.
The Florida Senate's Reapportionment Committee is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on a revised redistricting map.
The Florida Senate Reapportionment Committee is going back to work Tuesday to create yet another new redistricting map.
State Senators are back at work in a special session trying to come up with a way to fix their redistricting map so it meets the approval of Florida's Supreme Court which threw out their first version.
Five days after wrapping up their second session, lawmakers are back in Tallahassee to take a second shot a legislative redistricting.
Now that the second legislative session of the year has come and gone, Gov. Rick Scott said he's happy with the results.
A measure which would have sped up the foreclosure process floundered in the Florida legislature before lawmakers called it quits this past week.
A bill to make it easier for less regulated surplus lines insurers to take policies out of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. died during the session's final week.
In a late night special session held Friday, lawmakers finally came to a conclusion on personal injury protection (PIP).
After 60 days of endless meetings and decision making, the 2012 Florida legislative session is finally coming to a close.
A possible showdown over a hotly contested bill that would let parents at failing schools "trigger" a turnaround plan has died in the Senate on a 20-20 vote.
