The Florida House of Representatives has passed a key elections reform bill, by a vote of 115-1, which now returns to the Senate for a final up-and-down vote.

HB 7013 ("Florida Election Code") would substantially increase the the hours and days allowed for early voting, impose word limits on ballot summaries for Legislature-proposed constitutional amendments, and allow voters to correct absentee ballots that contain missing signatures.

By a bipartisan 90-25 vote, the Florida House of Representatives has passed the Senate-amended version of HB7029 ("Digital Learning"). The bill now heads to Gov. Rick Scott for his approval and signature.

In a unanimous, unsigned opinion published Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a controversial Florida law that grants thestate Public Service Commission (PSC) the power to authorize energy companies to "recover" the costs of their nuclear power plant construction through utility bill tax hikes.

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) had argued the law was an unconstitutional delegation by the Legislature of its powers to an administrative body.

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Did Rick Scott just confirm Sunshine State News' earlier report that he was behind the torpedoing of Parent Empowerment in the Senate Tuesday morning?

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All four leaders of the U.S. Congress are disliked by strong pluralities of the American electorate, but none more so than House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, one of the Sunshine State's most staunchly conservative legislators, has endorsed Northwest Florida Tea Party presidentMike Hill for state representative in the District 2 Special Election.

"Mike Hill has the core convictions needed to meet the moral imperative we have to protect faith, family, freedom, and opportunity for the next generation," Baxley said in a statement Tuesday announcing his endorsement. "We need him in the Florida House."

The Florida Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Monday a bill requiring doctors to provide medical care to infants born alive during botched abortion procedures.

SB 1636 (Infants Born Alive), sponsored by Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, now makes its way to the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The House counterpart, Rep. Cary Pigman's HB 1129, is on its second reading before that chamber.

The Miami Dolphins, and two Miami-Dade Republican legislators, suffered a symbolic blow on Thursday night to their push for taxpayer subsidies to renovate Miami's Sun Life Stadium, as the Miami-Dade GOP narrowly passed a resolution condemning the effort as just so much corporate welfare.