Janelle Irwin TaylorMay 29, 2024
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This is Collins' debut in the Top 25, and it looks like he might be on the way up.
Tag: SB 668
Janelle Irwin TaylorMay 29, 2024
Jesse SchecknerDecember 18, 2023
4min0
The measure would require governments and their agencies to ‘remain neutral’ on political viewpoints when flying flags.
Anne GeggisApril 17, 2023
7min0
SAVE sets up a platform routing legislation protest to individual lawmakers' inboxes.
Jim RosicaApril 19, 2016
4min296
Alimony overhaul supporters may need to take a break next legislative session, state Sen. Kelli Stargel says. “I don’t know that I’m willing to take this on again next year,” she told FloridaPolitics.com on Tuesday. “Then again, a lot can happen between now and the next legislative session. But we need to discuss the merits of […]
Jim RosicaApril 12, 2016
8min761
As more than 100 of them crammed the waiting room and hallway of Gov. Rick Scott‘s office on Tuesday, advocates and opponents of this year’s alimony overhaul bill had a hollering battle over the contentious legislation. The opponents, led by Florida National Organization for Women lobbyist Barbara DeVane, scheduled a meeting with Scott’s staff at 11 a.m. to […]
Jim RosicaApril 11, 2016
5min584
Supporters and opponents of this year’s alimony overhaul bill will make their case at the Capitol on Tuesday. As Gov. Rick Scott reviews the legislation (SB 668), representatives of the Florida National Organization for Women, the League of Women Voters of Florida and other groups plan to meet with his staff at 11 a.m., according to FL-NOW lobbyist Barbara […]
Peter SchorschApril 10, 20168min338
Is State Sen. Greg Evers becoming the Hamlet of the Florida Panhandle? Reports first floated last year that the Okaloosa County Republican was toying with the idea of running for Santa Rosa County sheriff, to replace the retiring incumbent there. He was later mentioned as eyeing the job of Okaloosa County’s property appraiser. And Pensacola political blogger Rick Outzen added a 2018 run for Commissioner of Agriculture to […]
Julie DelegalApril 6, 20167min532
The world runs on the unpaid and underpaid work of women. Churches, schools, nonprofits, and many business offices would collapse without it. Something else, however, has been collapsing and crumbling in our society for the past 60 years: the American family. For all the rhetoric about the “breakdown of the traditional family,” our leaders give […]
Jim RosicaApril 4, 2016
4min581
State Sen. Kelli Stargel on Monday said Governor Rick Scott now has “all the information he needs” on her bill to overhaul the state’s alimony system. The measure (SB 668) was the final bill of the 2016 Legislative Session to be sent to Scott for review. It was delivered to his office after Stargel, a Lakeland Republican, briefly […]
Jim RosicaMarch 8, 20165min259
A bill that could end “forever alimony” is heading to the desk of Gov. Rick Scott after passing the Florida Legislature Tuesday. The House passed the Senate family-law bill (SB 668) by a vote of 74-38 after Democrats tried but failed to tack on a last-minute amendment to ensure the bill can’t be applied retroactively to old […]