Ronda Storms doesn't want to hear excuses regarding Assisted living facilities

Meanwhile, the St. Pete Times reports that Storms got all in the face of Alberta Granger, a representative of the Florida Assisted Living Association, who said that many owners are "perplexed and confused" by the state's variety of regulations and other bureaucratic gymnastics that owners must contend with.

The Miami Herald reports that Storms has teamed up with Democrat Nan Rich to seek meaningful reforms of the industry as part of a summer-long interim project in their Senate committee.

There will be two other meetings held by the task force on ALF's this summer. Senator Storms says she'll write a bill next year on holding ALF's more accountable, regardless of what happens with the group.

A popular conservative mantra in Washington and Tallahassee has been the need to get rid of "onerous" regulations. But as we saw earlier this year in the Legislature, some of those attempts go too far, even for the right leaning Florida Legislature. As Storms said yesterday, according to Sunshine State News:

Said Storms, “I’m a person that believes where we can deregulate we should deregulate, but not when it comes to human safety, to health and welfare of vulnerable populations. I think that if we’re talking about regulating grass cutters, that rises to a different level than regulating child welfare, elder services. There has to be some common sense here. We’re not just talking dogma, right?”