Mike Hansen to be next Senate budget staff head
Senate president Joe Negron, in his office at the Florida Capitol December 3, 2015.

Speaker designate Joe Negron in his office at the Florida Capitol

Incoming Senate President Joe Negron tapped Mike Hansen to head the staff for the chamber’s Appropriations Committee, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Hansen
Hansen

Hansen will take over when Negron officially becomes president in November.

Hansen, 63, had left state government to become president and CEO of The Florida Council for Community Mental Health in Tallahassee.

He served as Negron’s staff director when the Stuart Republican was Appropriations chair under former Senate President Don Gaetz.

The nearly four-decade veteran of state government is considered a budgeting guru. He was Gov. Jeb Bush‘s budget director and has been staff director of the Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee.

Hansen also was Secretary of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.

Jim Rosica

Jim Rosica is the Tallahassee-based Senior Editor for Florida Politics. He previously was the Tampa Tribune’s statehouse reporter. Before that, he covered three legislative sessions in Florida for The Associated Press. Jim graduated from law school in 2009 after spending nearly a decade covering courts for the Tallahassee Democrat, including reporting on the 2000 presidential recount. He can be reached at [email protected].



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