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Expansion of Florida private school vouchers program heads to DeSantis
Senate sponsor Manny Diaz Jr., R-Hialeah, suggested that school closures and other effects of the pandemic increased an appetite for educational options.
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TALLAHASSEE â Moving Florida a step closer to a major expansion of school vouchers, the Senate on Monday passed a measure that would widen eligibility for taxpayer-funded aid to send children to private schools.
The Republican-controlled Senate voted 25-14 to pass the bill (HB 7045), which passed the House in a 79-36 vote last week. It is now ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Florida lawmakers advance bill to penalize social media companies
The bill would require social media companies to publish the standards it uses for censoring, de-platforming or blocking a user or their content, and give users 30 days before removing them from the platform.
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The Facebook app is shown on a smart phone, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Surfside. [ WILFREDO LEE | AP ]
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TALLAHASSEE â Outraged over a perception that social media companies are biased against conservatives, Florida legislators are close to finalizing a bill that makes it more difficult for platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and others to punish users for violating their terms of service agreements.
Florida tuition breaks part of higher-education deal reached by lawmakers
The bill offers in-state tuition to out-of-state students whose grandparents live in Florida and creates a âbuy one, get one freeâ waiver for students who enroll in programs aligned to the stateâs economic and workforce needs.
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TALLAHASSEE â Florida lawmakers have reached a compromise on a wide-ranging higher education bill that would create several tuition breaks for college students and would expand on the Legislatureâs push to provide coronavirus liability protections.
The legislation, passed unanimously by the Senate on Tuesday, would shield public and private universities from lawsuits seeking tuition and fee reimbursements as a result of pandemic-related school disruptions â and could do away with about 24 lawsuits filed in Florida against higher-education institutions.
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