Florida House of Representatives

A Florida House committee has advanced a bill that includes an amendment that would give the state control over city municipal utilities created after Jan. 1, 2023. If passed, House Bill 1451 would effectively overturn local votes to retain control of Gainesville Regional Utilities.

Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced the Florida House of Representatives’ proposed cuts to Everglades and water quality funding at a press conference Tuesday, marking the latest in his series of criticisms of House lawmakers over agenda discrepancies.

A Florida House panel supported providing reprieves from a 2023 law that requires local elected officials to disclose detailed information about their personal finances.

A bill proposed today in the Florida Legislature would allow the killing of bears in self-defense. House Bill 87, proposed by Representative Jason Shoaf,…

With a sentencing hearing scheduled Sept. 11, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday that former state Rep. Joe Harding, R-Ocala, should be…

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The proposed Florida House Bill 991, officially titled Defamation, False Light and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses, would make it easier to sue news outlets for defamation by lowering the requirement to prove actual malice.

Republican Florida House of Representatives Bobby Payne, Palatka, and Tyler Sirois, Merritt Island, are cosponsoring HB 1543, which proposes to reduce the minimum age at which a person may purchase, sell or transfer a firearm from 21 to 18. The measure is headed to the Criminal Justice Subcommittee for discussion March 13.

Patrick Walsh, the brother-in-law of indicted former Florida State Rep. Joe Harding, was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison Tuesday for defrauding the federal government of $7.8 million in COVID-19 aid in 2020.

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