Capitol Watch for Thursday, April 1 (Source: News Service of Florida) By News Service of Florida | April 1, 2021 at 7:49 AM EDT - Updated April 1 at 7:49 AM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (News Service of Florida) - The following events/topics are scheduled today in Tallahassee and elsewhere:
RESIDENT TUITION AT ISSUE: The House Post-Secondary Education & Lifelong Learning Subcommittee will take up a bill (HB 747), filed by Rep. Fiona McFarland, R-Sarasota, and Rep. Joe Harding, R-Williston, that would ensure in-state tuition status for residents working outside of Florida for the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Defense or while teaching at a U.S. Department of Defense dependent school. (12:30 p.m., 212 Knott Building, the Capitol.)
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Florida lawmakers want to let local government regulate smoking in parks but not mask wearing
One bill in the Florida Legislature would do more to preempt local control while another loosens existing preemption law.
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State Rep. Manny Diaz Jr., R-Hialeah, is the sponsor of Senate Bill 1924, which would limit locally issued emergency orders to 10 days and give the governor and Legislature the power to invalidate them. [SCOTT KEELER | Times]
Updated Mar. 17
TALLAHASSEE â Local government can ban a person sitting outside a Little League baseball dugout from smoking, but if that person is asymptomatic for COVID-19, local government cannot make them wear a mask amid a deadly pandemic.