Florida proposal to help new moms is a sticking point in budget negotiations tampabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tampabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Lawmakers disagree on $36 million for Floridaâs unemployment agency
The department is facing a monumental task: reviewing â by hand â most of the 5.6 million claims that have been filed during the pandemic.
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A small group of demonstrators gathers at Lake Eola Park to protest the Florida unemployment benefits system, Wednesday, June 10, 2020, in Orlando, Fla. Many Florida unemployed workers are still trying to apply for and receive unemployment benefits since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Raoux) [ JOHN RAOUX | AP ]
Updated Apr. 20
TALLAHASSEE â State lawmakers are on track to assign an additional $36 million to Floridaâs unemployment agency.
But they canât agree on how to spend it: either on resolving millions of existing unemployment claims or upgrading the broken unemployment system that caused so many problems with those claims in the first place.
DeSantis signs âanti-riotâ legislation in Polk County
The new law will allow people to sue local governments if their property is damaged during a riot and and will bump many criminal penalties from misdemeanors to felonies.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, seen during a news conference Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, where he first proposed the idea of âanti-mobâ legislation. [ The Florida Channel ]
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TALLAHASSEE â Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday put a cap on one of his top legislative priorities by signing an âanti-mobâ legislation into law back where it all began.
Flanked by sheriffs and Republican legislative leaders in ruby red Polk County, DeSantis signed legislation that, among many things, will immediately enhance criminal penalties for crimes committed during protests that turn violent.
Controversial Florida medical marijuana bill âeffectively deadâ
âI think the bill is effectively dead,â the billâs Republican sponsor said Monday.
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Photo of medical marijuana taken at Zen Leaf, a medical marijuana dispensary in Neptune, New Jersey. Taken April 16, 2021. [ DOUG HOOD | Asbury Park Press ]
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TALLAHASSEE â A controversial measure being contemplated by Florida lawmakers to cap the potency of medical marijuana will apparently not become law this year.
For weeks, House Bill 1455 seemed to have some momentum in the Republican-led Florida Legislature. In March, Republican lawmakers in two House committees voted to advance the bill, which, among other things, would have capped the amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the marijuana offered to patients. (THC is the main psychoactive component of marijuana).
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