May 05, 2023 | Daily Business Review
Florida Lawmakers Tee Up Tax Breaks for Shoppers, BusinessesThe bill includes holding two back-to-school tax holidays, after holding one holiday in past years. It would allow shoppers to avoid paying sales taxes on clothes costing $100 or less, school supplies priced at $50 or less and personal computers that cost $1,500 or less.
By Jim Turner
3 minute read
May 05, 2023 | Daily Business Review
DeSantis Celebrates Wins at End of Busy Legislative SessionGov. Ron DeSantis concluded a legislative session that establishes him as perhaps the most aggressive and accomplished conservative governor in the nation's bitter culture wars.
By Steve Peoples and Anthony Izaguirre
7 minute read
May 04, 2023 | Daily Business Review
House Gives Final Approval to Bill Targeting Campus 'DEI' EffortsThe bill's critics said diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are important and that the legislation will drive away top faculty members and students.
By Jim Saunders
3 minute read
May 04, 2023 | Daily Business Review
Near End of Legislative Session, Lawmakers Pass Trans Bathroom BillDemocrats argue that the bill would subject transgender people to harassment and question how it would be enforced.
By Jim Saunders
3 minute read
May 04, 2023 | Daily Business Review
Monorail Inspections Teed Up for DeSantis in Disney BattleDisney and other large theme parks conduct their own safety inspections because of a carve-out from oversight by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
By Jim Turner
4 minute read
May 03, 2023 | Daily Business Review
US Supreme Court Asked to Halt ExecutionIf the execution is carried out, Darryl Barwick, 56, would be the third inmate put to death by lethal injection in less than three months.
By Jim Saunders
4 minute read
May 03, 2023 | Daily Business Review
Reproductive Clinics Say Privacy Clause Protects Abortion RightsFlorida voters in 1980 approved a constitutional amendment that established state privacy rights. A 1989 Florida Supreme Court ruling set an initial precedent about the privacy clause protecting abortion rights, and subsequent decisions have followed that precedent.
By Jim Saunders
4 minute read
May 03, 2023 | Daily Business Review
Trump PAC Complaint Against DeSantis Rejected in FloridaThe Donald Trump-supporting super PAC MAGA Inc. filed the complaint against Gov. Ron DeSantis in March and asked the Florida Commission on Ethics to investigate the governor for allegedly leveraging his office to enrich his national profile.
By Anthony Izaguirre
3 minute read
May 03, 2023 | Daily Business Review
Fla. Shortens Time for Filing Construction-Related Suits, Imposes Materiality ThresholdThe act amends Section 95.11, Florida Statutes, shortening the time that lawsuits based upon design, planning, or construction involving real property must be commenced, and altering the date that the statute of limitations period begins to run.
By Travis McConnell
3 minute read
May 02, 2023 | Daily Business Review
House, Senate Nail Down Spending PlanThe budget includes such things as Gov. Ron DeSantis starting to get $4 billion he wants to speed a series of highway projects.
By Jim Turner
4 minute read
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