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Congressional leaders announced an agreement to fund cash payments to Americans, bailouts for key industries and aid to the health care industry.
Read More »Senate Reaches Historic Deal On $2 Trillion Coronavirus Economic Rescue Package
Bill To Streamline Life-Saving, Anti-Overdose Drug Naloxone In Schools Failed In Legislature
First-responders carry a powerful, opioid-overdose reversal drug – known as naloxone – that can save lives when injected into a patient or sprayed into his nose. The U.S. surgeon general has urged broader access to the drug to reduce overdose deaths, but the Legislature failed to pass a measure that could have made the drug more widely available in Florida’s schools – despite it being free of charge to schools in many cases.
Read More »Florida Trade Secret Bills Fail For The Third Consecutive Session
The end of the 2020 legislative session spelled the end for attempts to clarify Florida's trade secrets law to give the public greater access to information.
Read More »Alachua County Collects Thousands In Tourist Tax From Gainesville Airbnb Hosts
Alachua County has collectedmore than $90,000 in tourist taxes from short-term rental owners in Gainesville since June.
Read More »Florida Lawmakers Move To Ban Discrimination Against Disabled In Organ Transplants
The proposals would formally ban insurance companies and others from denying transplants for anyone with physical or mental disabilities.
Read More »House Seeks Regulation Of Vape Shops Amid ‘Epidemic’
Under the proposal, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, which oversees sales of tobacco products, would also have authority over retail establishments that sell e-cigarettes and other vape products.
Read More »Alachua County Is Only Now Getting Up To Speed On Enforcing Age Restriction On Tobacco Sales
Alachua County raised the legal tobacco age from 18 to 21 last October, but full enforcement has been slow to get under way.
Read More »Proposed Bill Scratches At Key Cat Issue, Would Ban Declawing
Florida would become the second state to prohibit the procedure after New York, which banned it last summer.
Read More »Florida On Path To Require Anyone Under 18 To Obtain Parent’s Permission For Abortions
The Senate is expected to vote on the measure next week. If the House approves it as expected in coming weeks – the governor already said he will sign it into law – Florida would become the 27th state to impose parental consent legislation for abortions.
Read More »State Still Working Out Flaws With Firefighter Cancer Bill
When Brian Kernohan complained to his doctor of merciless headaches two summers ago, he expected to get a prescription for a sinus infection, not a diagnosis of brain cancer. The 37-year-old firefighter’s eardrums were curved inward, so his doctor suggested a CT scan. It found a tumor the size of …
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