Florida Senate proposal would block local governments from removing confederate monuments
SB 1096 is designed to stem efforts that have increased during the past few years to remove monuments and markers.
By Jim Saunders and News Service of Florida
Tags: Florida News, Tampa Bay Confederate monuments
Florida House panel supports lowering a threshold for sentencing defendants to death
HB 555 would eliminate a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before death sentences can be imposed.
Tags: Florida News, Death penalty in Florida
Republicans on Florida House panel vote to approve bill that allows 18 year olds to buy rifles
HB 1543 would reverse part of a 2018 law that set the minimum age at 21.
Tags: Florida News, Florida gun law, Bobby Pane
Ethics commission dismisses dispute over Nikki Fried financial disclosure
The case involved income from periods before Fried was elected agriculture commissioner in 2018.
Tags: Florida News, Nikki Fried
Bipartisan bill calls for later start times at Florida public schools
The proposal would prevent public middle schools from starting before 8 a.m. and public high schools from starting before 8:30 a.m.
Tags: Florida News, Florida school start times bill, Florida legislature 2023
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