http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Legislature 60 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:02:46 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1344947.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1344947.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is about to go on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Attorney General Bill McCollum, running for governor, updates supporters that he is ``honored'' to get the endorsement of Gov. Charlie Crist. And Sen. Dan Gelber, hoping to be Florida's next attorney general, wants you to know he's thankful for America's veterans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1340982.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1340982.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Gov. Charlie Crist ordered an internal investigation and a citizen lodged an ethics complaint Wednesday over the extensive taxpayer-funded travel of Juvenile Justice Secretary Frank Peterman between the state capital and Tampa, near his family home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1338790.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1338790.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Gov. Charlie Crist and the state's top highway safety appointee endorsed a ban on texting while driving Tuesday, adding new momentum to an idea that has never taken hold in the Legislature. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1338788.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1338788.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders are discussing a new tax to pay for South and Central Florida rail service in the hopes that federal officials will send billions of dollars to the state for a new bullet train. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337208.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337208.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom says it was all there for any member of the Legislature to review: millions in taxpayer dollars stuck in the state budget for a Panhandle college. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337207.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1337207.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The two leading candidates for Florida's governor have grounded their high-flying ways on state-owned airplanes.<p/> Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Attorney General Bill McCollum have dramatically cut back their use of state aircraft since a Herald/Times analysis in June revealed that they had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in flights, including questionable use of planes by family members and use of the planes to commute to work from their homes in other parts of the state. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1335574.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1335574.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's constant search for more money could mean a tougher approach to businesses that fail to file annual reports on time. <p/> By law, the 1.2 million corporations in Florida must file an annual report with the state, which can charge a $400 fine on every company that skips the May 1 filing deadline. The state, however, must waive the fine for most businesses if the company says it never got a reminder notice to submit a report. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1330909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1330909.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The investment scam by Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein ``could well exceed $1 billion,'' making it one of the biggest fraud cases in South Florida history, the head of the FBI in Miami said Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1325301.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1325301.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST As an underdog U.S. Senate candidate courting the GOP's conservative wing, Marco Rubio takes a hard-line position against illegal immigration: no amnesty. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1322675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1322675.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is emerging as the champion of activists fed up with Republicans who don't stay true to conservative principles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321339.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321339.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST State Sen. Dan Gelber says the proposed anticorruption package he unveiled earlier this week is more vital than ever in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible fraud by the board that oversees the state pension fund. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321201.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A bank central to the federal fraud investigation into Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein was ordered by a Broward judge Friday to turn over records to the receiver for Rothstein's embattled law firm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1321193.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Lawmakers converged on the state capital this week -- at a cost of some $100,000 in taxpayer money -- for a few days' worth of meetings to discuss legislation and policy matters in advance of the 2010 legislative session. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319242.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Florida House committee investigating state Rep. Ray Sansom's conduct voted Thursday to move forward, dismissing requests by Sansom's lawyers for a delay until after his criminal trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1319240.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Facing a potentially bruising Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Charlie Crist continues to run from any assertion that he is linked to President Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317135.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The National Rifle Association is pushing legislation to ban adoption agencies from asking potential parents if they have guns and ammunition in the home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317137.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317137.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Consensus is building in the Florida Legislature to make the Public Service Commission operate more like judges by banning commissioners and their staff from communicating directly with the utilities they regulate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1317138.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On Nov. 5, 2008, Ray Sansom pulled up a chair before a swarm of reporters and effectively began his term as speaker of the Florida House, exulting in Republican success at the polls the night before and staring down a $2 billion budget deficit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314886.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Casting herself as a ``fresh face'' not connected to what she calls a troubled Republican establishment, state Sen. Paula Dockery of Lakeland jumped into the race for governor Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/1314881.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Florida's restrictions on where sex offenders can live might be both ineffective and endangering the public, a legislative analyst said Tuesday.<p/> Marti Harkness, a criminal-justice analyst, told the House Public Safety & Domestic Security Committee that studies from Florida, Minnesota and Colorado showed almost no link between a sex offender's residency and the crime he committed.