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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.     The Facebook app is shown on a smart phone, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Surfside. [ WILFREDO LEE | AP ] Updated 3 hours ago TALLAHASSEE — 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 f...

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 “buy one, get one free” waiver for students who enroll in programs aligned to the state’s economic and workforce needs.   Updated Just now TALLAHASSEE — 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 Legislature’s push to provide coronavirus liability protections. Th...

Florida Senate approves tweaks to elections system Only one Republican voted against the bill, which now heads to the House.     A poll worker wears personal protective equipment as she monitors a ballot drop box for mail-in ballots outside of a polling station during early voting, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in Miami Beach. [ LYNNE SLADKY | AP ] Updated 2 hours ago TALLAHASSEE — Florida senators voted mostly along party lines Monday to approve a controversial bill that would make dozens of changes to Florida’s vote-by-mail laws. Following nearly an hour of debate that included ac...

It fell from the sky: Floridians must call police for found rocket debris Under a bill headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida would be the first state to require people to report missing spacecraft parts to police, a lawmaker said.     The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday February 5, 2018. [ LUIS SANTANA | TIMES ] Updated 3 hours ago TALLAHASSEE — A warning to Floridians: If a piece of the latest SpaceX rocket falls into your yard, call the police — or else. Under a bill passed by lawmakers Monday, Floridians would...

Florida’s close to overhauling auto insurance. Here’s what’s next. The largest changes to the state’s automobile insurance laws in nearly 50 years could be a Senate vote away from becoming law.     Heavy traffic is seen along the southbound lanes of I-275 on the Howard Frankland bridge Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019 in Clearwater. [ DOUGLAS CLIFFORD | Times ] TALLAHASSEE — Lawmakers continue speeding ahead with an overhaul of Florida’s automobile insurance laws. With no debate, the Florida House voted 99-11 on Monday to repeal Florida’s “no-faultâ€�...