Gray Rohrer
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed three measures that will push the state to divest from Chinese companies, bar contracts with companies engaging forced labor and overhaul the state’s energy policies.
“The legislation I signed today — HB 1645, HB 7071 and HB 1331 — will keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and China out of our state,” DeSantis posted on X. “We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots. Furthermore, we’re going to ensure foreign adversaries like China have no foothold in our state.”
The most contested bill in the trio was HB 1645, which includes a ban on windmills, both within the state and offshore and removes an incentive for state and local governments to purchase electric vehicles by eliminating a requirement that the most fuel-efficient vehicles be selected.
Those provisions garnered opposition from environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, which wrote to DeSantis in March urging a veto.
“Governor, this administration and legislature have consistently failed to address climate change,” says the letter from James Scott, Executive Committee Chair of Sierra Club Florida.
“Instead of expanding investments in clean, renewable energy and directly creating jobs and savings for ratepayers, homeowners, and the public, this bill does the opposite. It strips local communities of the freedom to make their own choices, and forces an expensive and dirty fuel into our homes.”
The bill passed along party lines, with Democrats opposed, 28-12 in the Senate and 81-29 in the House.
The two other bills, though, passed unanimously.
Under HB 7071, the State Board of Administration is directed to start an inquiry of state investments in companies which are majority owned by the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party and affiliated companies by June 1. The SBA is also directed to develop a plan by Sept. 1 for selling off the state’s interest in those companies, with completion expected by Sept. 1, 2025.
And under HB 1331, state and local governments are prohibited from contracting with a company found to have used forced labor to produce goods.
28 comments
My Take
May 15, 2024 at 4:10 pm
A ban on onshore windmills?
What a cheapjack tool.
Unsafe Florida Where Xristians Run Amok
May 15, 2024 at 5:34 pm
A 21-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for firebombing a reproductive health clinic, prosecutors confirmed, with a judge saying he has “no empathy for women and their rights”.
Xavier Batten pleaded guilty in January to one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device and one count of intentionally damaging a reproductive health services facility.
US District Judge Cormac J Carney also sentenced Batten, of Brooksville, Florida, to three years of probation and ordered him to pay 1,000 dollars in restitution, the US Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
The judge said Batten had committed a “cowardly crime” that showed “no empathy for women and their rights,” according to the statement.
rick whitaker
May 16, 2024 at 5:44 pm
UNSAFE it should have been 30 years, not 3 years. shit like this makes florida look REAL bad to everyone except maga cultist.
Earl Pitts "The Big Voice On The Right" American
May 15, 2024 at 7:26 pm
Good evening Dooķ 4 Brains Leftys,
Florida’s mostest Favorite Govornor Ever, Ron “The Ronald DeSantis” is blazing the trail for Don “The Donald” Trump regarding Shutting Down all Dook 4 Brains Lefty Agenda Items.
This way once Don “The Donald” regains the oval office all he will need do is “Copy & Paste” Florida’s Sage leadership onto the National Level.
Thank you Ron “The Ronald” DeSantis,
Elvis Pitts American
Speedy Gonzalez
May 15, 2024 at 7:35 pm
Thanks to you Elvis
My cousin SloPoke is thanking for you to lead and inspirations Don and both Ron to restore Americano Exceptialism.
We, (SloPoke and me Speedy) will 100% deliver the Trump Hispanic vote Elvis.
Keep bringing in our Americano Jews y our Black Men into the Trump Fold and we got this!!
SloPoke y Speedy
Elvis Pitts "AMERICA'S BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT" American
May 15, 2024 at 7:44 pm
Thank you SloPoke and Speedy,
Lets keep up the pressure. I suggest you and Speedy start sleeping at different times so one of you will 24/7 be there to oversee bringing in new voters.
I’ve got extra Florida Exotic Dancers who have voluntered to run my phone banks which I am sending the Spanish speaking ones over to you y Slopoke to put “The Full Hispanics For Trump Plan into action.
I love you guys,
Elvis Pitts American
rick whitaker
May 15, 2024 at 8:00 pm
PURE RACISM BY EARL SHITS
rick whitaker
May 15, 2024 at 7:36 pm
EARL TOOK A DUMP, HERE IT IS
Elvis Pitts "AMERICA'S BIG VOICE ON THE RIGHT" American
May 15, 2024 at 7:51 pm
Good evening America,
I, Elvis Pitts American, appoligise about Rick’s memory issues which caused pre-dementia forgetfullness of changing my name to Elvis.
We are trying some of that fyentenal memory medication which 8iden is using on Rick to see if we can continue to use his services….wish us luck with Rick, America,
Elvis Pitts American
rick whitaker
May 15, 2024 at 7:58 pm
EARL/ELVIS/ SPHINCTER MAN, anyway, he took another dump, here it is.
Dont Say FLA
May 16, 2024 at 8:32 am
LOL Rick, I like where you come from but sometime I worry about ya’, my man.
Dont Say FLA
May 16, 2024 at 8:32 am
Hey Pops last night I was watching this comedy/news show (with some dork named Oliver but he’s pretty funny) where they disclosed how many polices in the USA have OD’ed on fentanyl due to incidental exposure on the job as the popo. It’s zero. And that’s OD’ed, not even died. “Died” is also zero.
Do you think “they” are lying to us about the immediate dangers of fentanyl? It’s definitely addictive AF and can be fatal much “sooner” rather than “later (like heroin),” but all the media hoopla about dying from accidentally touching fentanyl or accident inhaling some unexpectedly, is that all a bunch of nonsense?
Is it a bunch of malarkey? Just like it was with every previous drug where the same claims used to be made? False media? We don’t need that do we Harry.
A rap burglar, false media. We don’t need it do we? It’s fake that’s what it be to ‘ya, dig me? Don’t believe the hype!
rick whitaker
May 16, 2024 at 5:52 pm
DSF i remember back in 1967 when i started smoking pot. the government put out propaganda saying that repeated use of pot would cause men to grow breasts. are you old enough to remember that? well after 57 years of heavy constant pot use, my chest is still firm and flat. do you think the government lied to us?
Michael K
May 15, 2024 at 8:26 pm
What an idiot. Scrubbing the words “climate change” from Florida books does not make the problem go away.
Ron is all for big oil – until big oil wants to drill in Florida.
Dont Say FLA
May 16, 2024 at 8:25 am
Rhonda wishes to be in charge of other states. He spent an entire year pretending to be Governor of Iowa (but at the expense of Floridians) but that plan failed epically.
Now Rhonda plays like he is Governor of Texas, perhaps thinking that is an easier pick for him stealing a job from the guy in the wheelchair? What is wheelchair guy going to do? Rhonda has HIGH HEELS!
Given how they governs Florida, I think Rhonda doesn’t just want to be in some other state, any other state, I believe Rhonda hates Florida because Rhonda hates themself.
Ehhhhh, whatever keeps the little guy busy, I reckon. Good for him. Self immolation might fix it!
My Take
May 15, 2024 at 8:27 pm
Divestment is OK now?
After all the harping over BDS?
rick whitaker
May 15, 2024 at 8:30 pm
somebody please stop this man. the gop voters screwed our state over by installing the worst governor in the history of governors. where are the law suits against desantis?
Charlie
May 15, 2024 at 10:27 pm
Our state?
Dont Say FLA
May 16, 2024 at 7:35 am
With this web site being FP, the phrase “this state” refers exclusively to Florida. Site rules and all. Get with the program Charlie. “Florida is the state” works just like 2nd place in a popularity contest in Pinellas County.
Big Flower
May 15, 2024 at 10:29 pm
Most of the lawsuits filed against the Governor have been dismissed.
rick whitaker
May 15, 2024 at 11:02 pm
BIG FLOWER, so let’s start filing more lawsuits. and then some more. we can’t let that desantis punk win.
Carol
May 15, 2024 at 11:05 pm
Only one of the three (3) bills passed the Florida Legislature on a party-line vote. The other two (2) bills enjoyed unanimous bipartisan support from Republican and Democratic state lawmakers. Leadership matters.
rick whitaker
May 15, 2024 at 11:22 pm
CAROL, you are right, leadeship matters. desantis, is not a good leader. so something happened in his state that was bi-partisan, how in the world did he let that happen. i know you must think he’s cute or something weird, because you aren’t describing the desantis i know.
rick whitaker
May 15, 2024 at 11:08 pm
CHARLIE, you are trying to be funny, of course i mean desantis. who else could it be. trump has never been governor, so how could it be him. sounds like you voted for the punk. shame on you if you did.
Tom
May 16, 2024 at 7:00 am
Radical green zealots vs. radical red morons – sounds about right for the stupidest state in the union. Hard to fathom in this day and age that anyone in a position of power could be so willfully ignorant but there you have it. Rhonda strikes again.
Dont Say FLA
May 16, 2024 at 7:33 am
Wait one dang second. Which part of Florida is China in?
I had thought Chine was across the USA mainland, then across the Pacific, way the hale over past Japan!
But I went to public school, not Yarvard. Not Hale. So what do I know.
Ron Forrest Ron
May 16, 2024 at 7:42 am
What is Rhonda’s problem with wind turbines? They are white and are historically from Holland, an extremely white nation even if they’re not all that nationalist (in Hollland, anyways, but in these USA parts, their saying goes “If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much” which does come across as just a widdle white nationalist).
Did the Oil Men tell Rhonda “No wind turbines”?
I bet they did!
Robert
May 17, 2024 at 6:07 pm
DeSantis ignorance and stupidity is legendary. Florida and the oceans that surround it are heating so fast that all marine life will be washed up on Florida’s shores within 5 years. Within 7 years, Florida will be completely uninhabitable for humans.
DeSantis can take the words climate change out of Florida law, but he can’t take the climate change out of Florida, as he will soon learn firsthand.
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