Scott Powers
State Reps. Holly Raschein, Chris Latvala, and Jay Trumbull are among seven members appointed by Speaker Jose Oliva to chair House appropriations subcommittees.
That trio plus state Reps. Jayer Williamson, MaryLynn Magar, Randy Fine, and Clay Yarborough join Appropriations Committee Chair Travis Cummings of Clay County to lead House budgeting efforts over the next two years.
Each of the new appropriations subcommittee chairs arrives from leadership posts of mostly related committees or subcommittees in the past Florida House class under former House Speaker Richard Corcoran. In most cases, the new chairs also are moving up in the subcommittees on which they served under Corcoran, though Williamson and Fine are both freshly joining the panels as chairs.
Still to be named: memberships of those and other House Committees for 2019.
Raschein, of Key Largo, will chair the Agriculture and Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee. Previously, she had chaired the Natural Resources and Public Lands Subcommittee. She succeeds former state Rep. Ben Albritton.
Latvala, of Clearwater, will oversee the PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee, after previously chairing the PreK-12 Innovation Subcommittee. He’s taking over from former state Rep. Manny Diaz.
Trumbull, of Panama City, will chair the Transportation and Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee, after previously heading both the Energy and Utilities Subcommittee and the Select Committee on Triumph Gulf Coast. He’s taking the chair previously held by former state Rep. Clay Ingram.
Williamson, of Pace, will chair the Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee, after having chaired the Government Accountability Committee the past two sessions. He is succeeding state Rep. Blaise Ingoglia to head that committee.
Magar, of Tequesta, will chair the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, after having served as chair of the Health Innovation Subcommittee. She takes the chair vacated by the former state Rep. Jason Brodeur.
Fine, of Brevard County, will chair the Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee after previously serving as vice chair of the Careers and Competition Subcommittee. He succeeds departed state Rep. Larry Ahern.
Yarborough, of Jacksonville, will chair the Justice Appropriations Subcommittee, after having served as vice-chair of the Government Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee. He’ll succeed former state Rep. Bill Hager.
