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Florida Legislature: Budget deal avoids health cuts, gives teachers bonuses, salary boost


Florida Legislature: Budget deal avoids health cuts, gives teachers bonuses, salary boost
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Florida faces budget challenges
TALLAHASSEE — After a week of largely out-of-sight budget negotiations, Florida lawmakers have ironed out many major spending differences and are on track to wrap up the 2021 regular legislative session on time.
House and Senate budget chiefs on Friday night publicly accepted compromises on spending on health care, education and prisons.
Some of the key decisions included backing off hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed Medicaid cuts for hospitals and nursing homes that have spent the past year dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Florida budget deal avoids health cuts, helps with teacher pay


Legislative leaders also reached agreement on more than $22 billion in school spending, including a bump in money for teacher salaries as well as $1,000 bonuses for teachers and principals that had been pitched by Gov. Ron DeSantis as a way to reward educators who helped reopen schools.
The bonus plan also includes money going to early learning instructors.
“We feel that those teachers have gone back and worked with these children,” Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, said.
Another meeting expected for billions in stimulus aid
Stargel and House Appropriations Chairman Jay Trumbull, R-Panama City, are expected to meet again Sunday to resolve one of the largest outstanding issues: how to spend about $10 billion in federal aid that was part of the American Rescue Plan Act, a stimulus law signed last month by President Joe Biden.

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Budget Deal Avoids Health Cuts, Gives Boost To Teachers

Legislative leaders reached agreement on more than $22 billion in school spending, including a bump in money for teacher salaries as well as $1,000 bonuses for teachers and principals.

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DeSantis, tribe hammer out gambling deal - Jacksonville Business Journal

DeSantis, tribe hammer out gambling deal - Jacksonville Business Journal
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Sunburn — The morning read of what's hot in Florida politics — 4.21.21


Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 4.21.21
Guilty.
Guilty.
Derrick Chauvin murdered
George Floyd, the hammer of justice sounded loudly on all three counts he faced.
The video of Chauvin’s neck on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes was damning enough. There was more, though. Throughout the ordeal, the smug, superior expression on Chauvin’s face told volumes about the disregard he had for Floyd’s life.
Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Image via AP.
This wasn’t a routine arrest over Floyd’s passing of a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin’s action that day was racism at its diabolical worst.

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Florida Legislature: Time runs out on fight over regulating vacation rentals


Passidomo, R-Naples, has worked behind the scenes on the Senate proposal, which has undergone major revisions since it was filed in January by Sen. Manny Diaz Jr., R-Hialeah.
Listing bills her committee would not consider at the end of Tuesday’s meeting, Passidomo noted she “would love to hear” the vacation-rentals bill “since I worked all session on it.”
The House version of the bill (HB 219) also did not make it out of committees.
"It looks like it's over for this year," Diaz told The News Service of Florida Tuesday evening. "We gave it a valiant effort and we'll see where it goes from here."

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Contentious elections bill ready for Florida Senate vote - Jacksonville Business Journal

Contentious elections bill ready for Florida Senate vote - Jacksonville Business Journal
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Sunburn — The morning read of what's hot in Florida politics — 4.19.21


Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 4.19.21
In every Session, there are clear winners and losers, while others prove more elusive to pin down.
Once again, Florida Politics is assembling an (arguably) comprehensive look at who walked away from Sine Die 2021 victorious, who tanked, and who landed somewhere in between.
Of course, there is the one bill lawmakers must pass: Florida’s upcoming state budget.
Crafted in the ever-present shadow of COVID-19, a budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022 came with a new wrinkle — the state’s slice of a massive federal relief pie. Who does it help, or maybe hurt?

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DeSantis signs protest bill as controversy continues


News Service of Florida
Flanked by uniformed law-enforcement officers, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday, April 19, signed into law a controversial law-and-order measure sparked by nationwide protests that erupted last year after George Floyd’s death.
The law, which went into effect immediately, creates a new crime of “mob intimidation,” enhances riot-related penalties and makes it harder for local officials to reduce spending on law enforcement.
The measure (HB 1) has been one of the 2021 legislative session’s most contentious issues, with all Republicans but one --- Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg --- supporting it and all Democrats opposed.
At a bill-signing ceremony in Polk County, where he announced the framework for the plan in September, DeSantis boasted that the measure “is the strongest, anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country.”

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Florida sues Biden administration over idled cruises – Capital Outlook

Florida sues Biden administration over idled cruises – Capital Outlook
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