Florida Phoenix

Last-second bartering yielded two education omnibus bills.

Since 1989, 91 people in Florida have been exonerated or released from incarceration as a result of post-conviction DNA testing.

Whether the bill will pass into law this year is in question after the Senate bill (SB 1672) was temporarily postponed in committee.

But the Senate Version by Tampa Republican Jay Collins is effectively dead for the session.

The change could come at a time when Florida teens are contracting chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis at the highest rates since 2008.