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If DeSantis signs the bill, as he is expected to do, all public employers, contractors and subcontractors must register with the E-Verify system to hire new employees beginning Jan. 1. Private employers have the option of using E-Verify or the documents required for an I-9 form, but they must keep copies of those documents at least three years.

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.

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.

Alachua County has collectedmore than $90,000 in tourist taxes from short-term rental owners in Gainesville since June.

The proposals would formally ban insurance companies and others from denying transplants for anyone with physical or mental disabilities.

Alachua County raised the legal tobacco age from 18 to 21 last October, but full enforcement has been slow to get under way.