Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill on Tuesday banning texting and driving in Florida. In a statement highlighting the bill signing, Scott brought up his family and insisted this new law will help protect younger Floridians.

Over Memorial Day weekend, Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, led a congressional delegation to Afghanistan and to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Other members of the delegation included Texas Republicans Michael Burgess and Blakem Farenthood, California Democrat Ami Bera and Massachusetts Democrat Joseph Kennedy.

The delegation met with members of the armed forces, President Hamid Karazi of Afghanistan, and State Department and Drug Enforcement Administration officials.

According to a study from the University of Florida released Tuesday, consumer confidence rose this month in Florida and is now higher than it has been since August 2007. The study found consumer confidence rose 2 points to 81 in May.

The last time confidence was this high was August of 2007 when it was 82, shortly before the Great Recession began, said Chris McCarty, director of UFs Survey Research Center in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, at a ceremony in West Palm Beach, Gov. Rick Scott signed into law HB 7065, sponsored by Rep. Matt Caldwell, R-Lehigh Acres, to provide $32 million a year to fund Everglades restoration.