TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Governors said Monday it would consider pulling championships from states that ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports. The statement came a day before the Florida House is set to take up House Bill 1475, a bill which would do just that. “When determining where championships are held, .
Florida Senate advances gambling bill to add new commission, reduce live racing
The bill allows casinos and card rooms to operate without running harness or quarter-horse races or jai-alai matches, a concept known as decoupling.
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TALLAHASSEE â The Florida Senate moved a step closer to consolidating and updating the stateâs gambling regulation Monday as a committee advanced bills to create the Florida Gaming Control Commission and another to end live racing as a condition of operating slot machines and card rooms.
But within minutes of presenting the proposal before the Senate Regulated Industries Committee, SPB 7080 ran into the same hurdles that similar attempts have faced year after year: The owners of a race track warned that the change will devastate their business and lead to the loss of jobs.
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DeSantis endorses effort to permanently close Piney Point in Manatee County after disaster Jesse Mendoza, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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State officials announced plans Tuesday to fund the permanent closure of the former Piney Point fertilizer processing plant property, a project that could cost upwards of $200 million.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited the Piney Point facility Tuesday morning to announce he has directed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to develop the closure plan. We want this to be the last chapter of the Piney Point story, DeSantis said. This will ensure the state is moving forward with a thoughtful, scientific plan toward closure to avoid another chapter in this long history.
To fund those efforts, DeSantis announced that $15.4 million of existing DEP appropriations will be used in the short-term to pay for innovative technologies to pretreat wastewater at the site for nutrients to minimize any adverse environmental impacts of any future discharges, if they are necessary. Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson said that the Legislature also is pushing forward plans to appropriate $100 million this year for DEP s effort. I believe this year we are going to appropriate $100 million for the initial funding, and by the end of the year we hope to get a full closure plan with a fully funded amount that may be required, Simpson said. The object would be to come back next year and have a fully-funded plan.