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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order May 3 that cancels local government emergency orders related to the coronavirus pandemic before a bill approved by the Florida Legislature doing the same goes into effect July 1.
DeSantis issued the order during a signing ceremony for the bill in St. Petersburg that puts new local limits on the state’s Emergency Management Act, excluding hurricanes, and invalidates city and county face mask mandates, social distancing and other restrictions.
The order also bans the use of “vaccine passports” used to allow inoculated people take part in travel and other activities.
DeSantis said the order is meant to bridge the time gap until the bill becomes law.
07:25 PM EST Share “I think it’s a trail of tears, the whole report. I don’t think we’ve found the end of the trail yet,” Council president Tommy Hazouri says.
Brenda Priestly Jackson, the City Council’s JEA investigatory committee chair, says the results of the probe into the attempt to sell Jacksonville’s municipal utility proved her theory.
“My overarching belief was there was an attempt, with a lack of transparency, a lack of adherence to the (city) charter and Florida statues, to engage in a sale of our municipal utility,” she said in an interview Jan. 5.