News Service Of Florida

March 23, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Senate President Joe Negron is mulling an early exit from the Legislature.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

March 23, 2018 | Daily Business Review

With 25 potential changes to the state Constitution before it, a committee began debating how to group and define the proposals that may be headed to the November general-election ballot.

By Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 22, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott signed 38 bills into law, including a measure that supporters hope will end years of battling in the hospital industry about the approval of trauma centers.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

March 21, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Saying he didn't want to make changes necessary to get it passed, Florida Constitution Revision Commission member Brecht Heuchan withdrew a proposal that would have guaranteed certain rights to nursing home residents and allowed them to sue facilities if those rights were violated.

By Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 21, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Gun owners have filed a second lawsuit against the state over gun-related provisions in a new school-safety law, this time alleging that a ban on “bump stocks” is an unconstitutional taking of property.

By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 20, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Gov. Rick Scott signed 30 bills into law, including a measure that could make more permanent a controversial pregnancy “support services” program and a bill that calls for placing a statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the U.S. Capitol.

By Jim Saunders and Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 20, 2018 | Daily Business Review

The Florida Constitution Revision Commission advanced a sweeping ethics package, which includes a proposed six-year lobbying ban for former state lawmakers, agency heads and local government officials.

By Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

5 minute read

March 13, 2018 | Daily Business Review

A proposed constitutional amendment that would impose eight-year term limits on members of county school boards would pass comfortably if it goes on the November ballot, according to a new poll.

By Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida

4 minute read

March 12, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Neglected for nearly a decade, the Florida Forever conservation program would get $100.8 million in a proposed $88.7 billion budget that lawmakers are expected to approve.

By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida

3 minute read

March 09, 2018 | Daily Business Review

Florida Supreme Court justices are in line for a 24 percent pay raise in the new state budget.

By Lloyd Dunkelberger, News Service of Florida

2 minute read