Jim Turner News Service Of Florida

February 28, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The Florida House is preparing subpoenas demanding information from five South Florida government agencies about the confessed killer of 17 people at a Parkland high school in an investigation that will run separate from a review ordered by Gov. Rick Scott.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

February 21, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The Florida House voted 111-1 on Tuesday to support placing the statue of civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, replacing Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

February 16, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Over objections that more money would flow away from public schools and that airport projects could be grounded, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a nearly $350 million tax package that would help farmers impacted by Hurricane Irma and lower a lease tax on businesses.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

February 01, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Voter-approved money for land and water conservation continues to be carved up by the Senate, while the House is on a different path.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

January 31, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A controversial measure that would ban “sanctuary cities” in Florida stalled in the Senate but is already playing a role in the 2018 gubernatorial campaign.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

January 29, 2018 | Daily Business Review

An effort to let voters decide if they want open primary elections advanced, but moving to such a “top-two” system continued to draw questions from members of the state Constitution Revision Commission.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

January 23, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Commercial airboat operators would have to complete a state-approved course before taking on passengers under a measure, named for a 22-year-old woman killed last year, that started moving through the Senate.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

January 18, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Insurers could demand car windshields be checked for damage before they are replaced under a Senate proposal that started moving forward to combat reported increasing cases of repair-shop fraud.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

December 04, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott told the Enterprise Florida board of directors of the need to ensure lawmakers maintain the new “Florida Job Growth Grant Fund,” which has attracted 209 applications from governments and other groups across the state since opening in July.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

7 minute read

November 29, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A panel of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission unanimously backed a proposal that would require all employers in Florida to use the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Employment Authorization Program to determine the eligibility of new employees.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

4 minute read