A bill that could spare emergency room doctors and other emergency medical care providers from healthcare lawsuits passed the Senate Health Regulation Committee in quick order Thursday.
Senate Bill 1474, sponsored by Sen. John Thrasher, R-Jacksonville, Chair of the Republican Party of Florida, passed 5-2.
WASHINGTON -- So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts' devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.
After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts) and a seven-hour seminar, the president announced Wednesday his determination to make one last push to pass his health care reform.
Florida Crystals executives, in Tallahassee Wednesday for Palm Beach County Days, said they have been seeking a settlement with the Department of Community Affairs to continue the company's Inland Logistics Center south of Lake Okeechobee.
The House's lead gaming negotiator and the Seminole Tribe appear to be inching toward a gaming agreement as lawmakers kick off the 2010 legislative session.
The Senate Commerce Committee passed the Corporate Income Tax Rate Reduction bill today. The bill would secure a one-percent reduction in the corporate income tax rate, from 5.5 percent to 4.5 percent on the first $1 million of corporate taxable income.
Gov. Charlie Crist, who proposed the tax break, released a statement saying he was grateful to Sen. Rudy Garcia, R-Hialeah, and the Commerce Committee, which he serves as chairman, for working quickly to give corporations a bit of a break.
It's the second day of the Legislative session and already the stream of people through my door stretches from breakfast to dinner.
The Florida Senate passed a bill Wednesday afternoon designed to restore public trust in government. SB 1034, more commonly known as the Public Service Commission Reform bill, prohibits PSC commissioners and staffers from engaging in private discussions with the utilities they regulate.
The South Korean government proposed a deal to Florida Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp Wednesday that could launch Florida and Space Coast aerospace technicians into the high-speed rail industry .
Soon-Man Hong, South Koreas deputy minister for Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs, told Kottkamp and others that his country was interested in a partnership that could put aerospace experts to work in high-speed rail research and development, resulting in a transfer of Korean high-speed rail technology to Florida.
Floridas House Republicans caucused Wednesday night and expressed concern about the budget and how the budget process will shape the entire session.
The grim mood was obvious from the start.
Rep. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, offered the opening prayer with references to this difficult budgetary time and this austere time.
Remarks from Majority Leader Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, extended the somber tone.
WASHINGTON -- Memo to that Massachusetts school where children in physical education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you -- you are about 85 percent of all parents -- who are constantly telling your children how intelligent they are: Do your children a favor and pipe down.
These are nuggets from "NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children" by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman.
