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Associated PressMarch 16, 2015

A bill allowing gun owners without concealed weapon permits to take their guns along during emergency evacuations appears to have a good chance of passing this year. SB 822 will go to the floor of the Florida Senate on Tuesday after getting approval in all three of its required committee stops. A Senate committee killed […]

Mitch PerryMarch 16, 2015

Miami Republican Rep. Frank Artiles‘ controversial bill that would criminalize bathroom use for transgender people moves to its second committee in the House Tuesday, and LGBT activists are now in Tallahassee lobbying legislators to vote against it. The Government Operations Subcommittee will consider HB 583, which would make it illegal for transgend people to enter sex segregated […]

Florence SnyderMarch 16, 2015

Rep. Halsey Beshears (R-Not From Panacea) supports small government, except when he doesn’t. Beshears was elected to the House in 2012 from Monticello, in Jefferson County. He’s all in for making a city out of Panacea, located in Wakulla County, inside his sprawling district, but an hour’s drive and a world away from where he lives and works. Florida law […]

Christine Jordan SextonMarch 16, 2015

The discussion of whether to have the state Auditor General audit a hospital taxing district was delayed on Monday. Joint Legislative Auditing Committee Chairman Sen. Joseph Abruzzo said the committee was waiting for more information from the North Lake County Hospital District to be released and that Rep. Larry Metz, who requested the audit, was […]

James CallMarch 16, 2015

Rep. Matt Gaetz began Monday morning describing an “unsolved mystery”: how to get Florida’s first legal marijuana crop in the ground and begin supplying children afflicted with a severe form of epilepsy with medicinal oil to calm their seizures — which can be fatal. “I sense an enhanced appetite for Legislative review, but how to inject […]

James CallMarch 16, 2015

Rep. Matt Gaetz began Monday morning describing an “unsolved mystery”: how to get Florida’s first legal marijuana crop in the ground and begin supplying children afflicted with a severe form of epilepsy with medicinal oil to calm their seizures — which can be fatal. “I sense an enhanced appetite for Legislative review, but how to inject […]

Peter SchorschMarch 16, 2015

U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross reaches out to those of Hungarian descent, as well as students of European history, in a new email celebrating the 167th anniversary of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution and War for Independence. The family of the Senior Deputy Majority Whip is of Hungarian descent, and the email offers the Lakeland Republican’s support for […]

Staff ReportsMarch 16, 2015

Richard “Rich” Koon is joining Floridian Partners — bringing his 28 years of regulatory experience to the firm. As the former Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, he had direct oversight of all regulated property and casualty insurance contracts and rates, as well as financial oversight of insurers. Koon led the […]

Mitch PerryMarch 16, 2015

This past week 14 states filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Obama administration, which is trying to counter a Texas judge’s preliminary injunction blocking the executive order on immigration Obama issued in November. Florida and 25 other Republican-led states have sued the administration over the order. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen‘s ruling last month put on […]

Mitch PerryMarch 16, 2015

It’s only the middle of March, but Floridians for Solar Choice, the political action committee pushing to get a solar-energy initiative on the ballot in 2016, are on the verge of having enough valid petition signatures to get a review by the Florida Supreme Court. The group submitted 66,493 valid petition signatures on Friday, just shy of […]

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Anheuser-Busch has a longstanding tradition of providing emergency drinking water and supplies for disaster relief efforts.

Bill on guns, emergency evacuations goes to Senate floor

Equality Florida hits Capitol to lobby against transgender bill

Halsey Beshears swaps horses on small-government credo

No audit of hospital taxing district … for now

Charlotte's Web’s “unsolved mystery” frustrates Matt Gaetz

Charlotte’s Web’s “unsolved mystery” frustrates Matt Gaetz

Email insights: Dennis Ross schools us on history, freedom in Hungary and America

Personnel note: Floridian Partners adds insurance ace Richard Koon to capital team

Kathy Castor helps attorneys get ready for immigration changes

Constitutional amendment on solar power close to state Supreme Court review