Sen. Lauren Book

The bill creates four key changes to current policies.

A new state Senate committee will review Florida’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and plan for future emergencies.

Florida is accelerating investigations of teachers accused of misconduct, a change intended to allow the state to quickly revoke an educator’s certification in such instances.

Florida would become the second state to prohibit the procedure after New York, which banned it last summer.

Florida state Sen. Lauren Book in February filed a bill that will require the Florida Building Commission to incorporate baby-changing tables into the Florida Building Code requirements.

The proposed legislation offers amnesty to the first person who makes a 911 call in a hazing emergency.

Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, sponsored SB 160 amid an international conversation surrounding child sex dolls and their link to increased sexual preying on children.

For Florida senators who do not have a cap on how many bills they can sponsor, the number of bills they introduce varies widely.

Bold-lettered signs that read, “Stand up to the NRA”, “No NRA Money” and “Disarm Hate” floated above a crowd of Democratic legislators on the capitol’s…

Fried is an attorney from Fort Lauderdale who was a student-body president at the University of Florida and a lobbyist on medical-marijuana issues. The News Service caught up with Fried on Friday.