Florida House votes to loosen child labor laws The Florida House has passed a bill to let 16- and 17-year-olds work longer and later hours. Feb 2, 2024 Florida Senate, House face budget differences The House and Senate say a package of tax breaks will be crafted alongside the budget ...
On Tuesday, The Human Rights Campaign, which is the country’s largest LGBTQ organization, issued an updated travel advisory designed to highlight laws passed by the state’s Republican-led legislature in what the organization called the “most anti-LGBTQ legislative session in history.” [Source...
Condominium owners shouldn’t expect financial “bailouts” to cover increased costs as condo associations try to comply with state laws passed after the 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside that killed 98 people, key lawmakers said Tuesday. With the Legislature discussing...
First legislative sessions after Roe produce patchwork of abortion laws A year after the U.S. Supreme Court returned regulation of abortion to the states, the first full legislative sessions post-Roe v. Wade produced a lot of confusion and little agreement, with more extreme measures going so ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican state lawmakers in Florida have filed two bills that would roll back gun control measures passed in the wake of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Republican state lawmakers in Florida have filed two bills that would roll back gun control measures passed in the wake of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
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It targets the 2023 law (SB 266) and rules passed last year by the state university system’s Board of Governors. “Continuing its effort to police the marketplace of ideas, the Florida Legislature again passed vague, viewpoint-discriminatory legislation that broadly restricts academic free...
Some of the new laws passed in the Florida State Legislature in 2019 include: Individuals now have five days (rather than 72 hours) to report a crime, ensuring law enforcement professionals have more time to work with victims to decide whether to press charges. Based on the particular offense...
“The latest chapter in this tug-of-war over the state’s sovereign immunity laws started with a state House panel signing off on a bill that would increase dramatically the amount of money Florida governments would be authorized to pay to people who are injured. But the proposed legislation ...