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• Weatherford: Embrace most of Senate ethics bill and lower campaign caps

  House Speaker Will Weatherford said Thursday the House Ethics and Elections Committee next week will take up a bill that embraces most of the Senate's ethics bill and another that will "dramatically" reduce the the $10,000 cap on campaign contributions.

  Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday he could not support the [...]

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• Gov. Rick Scott's claim about $36m to ease disabled waiting list

  In 2011, Republican Gov. Rick Scott gave his State of the State address to a tea party rally in Eustis. He called for spending and tax cuts and bashed Washington, D.C.
  
  Flash-forward two years later, and Scott’s State of the State called for helping the poor by expanding Medicaid, [...]
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• Scott picks 'conservative' Forst for 4th DCA post

  Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday appointed Treasure Coast attorney Alan Orantes Forst to a vacancy on the 4th District Court of Appeal.

  Forst had angered some judicial watchdogs for touting "conservative credentials" on his application. He replaces Fred Hazouri, who retired from the court that handles appellate cases in Broward and Palm [...]

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• Bill to cap sugar clean-up gets swift approval by House committee

  A bill that would shift some of the cost of cleaning up the Everglades from sugar and agricultural interests to Florida taxpayers and South Florida property owners is on the fast track in the Florida House.

  The measure, which phases out the tax on the agricultural industry to pay for [...]

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• Bill to cap sugar clean-up of Everglades gets swift approval by House committee

  A bill that would shift some of the cost of cleaning up the Everglades from sugar and agricultural interests to Florida taxpayers and South Florida property owners is on the fast track in the Florida House.

  The measure, which phases out the tax on the agricultural industry to pay for [...]

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• New law targeting international drivers on road to repeal

  Not much attention was paid to this piece of legislation last year, and it became a classic case of a seemingly benign change of law have unintended consequences that started a firestorm. Now, SB 7022 would repeal the law approved by the Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott (2012's HB 1223) that [...]

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• Should Broward help pay for Dolphins stadium upgrade? Dade lawmaker thinks so

  After adding an amendment to require Miami-Dade voters to approve a new local hotel tax to help pay for a $400 million upgrade of the Miami Dolphins stadium, skeptical lawmakers may be planning more changes for the controversial proposal. 

  Rep. Carlos Trujillo, R-Miami, implied that the bill should include a contribution from Broward County taxpayers [...]

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• Health care workers criticize Weatherford stance on Medicaid expansion

  Using characters from the "Wizard of Oz" to drive their point, health care workers rallied at the Capitol today in support of Medicaid expansion. Alongside men dressed in costumes to portray the Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tin Man, speakers encouraged Republican lawmakers to "have a heart," "have courage" and [...]

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• Hot-button ‘parent trigger’ bill gets first nod from House subcommittee

  A bill that empowers parents.

  A bill that hands public schools over to private interests.

  A red herring.

  No matter what you think of the so-called parent trigger proposal, one thing was made clear Thursday: the bill will be among the most contentious of the legislative session.

  The proposal, which would [...]

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• Miami-Dade Republican blasts anti-'living' wage efforts in Tallahassee, questions Van Zant's 'theology' ties to communist Cuba

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  Natacha Seijas, the former Miami-Dade commissioner who championed ordinances creating a local "living wage" and preventing wage theft, took Florida lawmakers to task Thursday for considering legislation that would force counties to repeal those laws and ban them from enacting them in the future.

  Seijas, a Republican, leveled particularly pointed [...]

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