WASHINGTON -- Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget.
We tell ourselves, we parents of college-bound kids (not to mention ordinary citizens), that American campuses really aren't as bad as all that, that students can avoid the most tendentious indoctrinators and that the press tends to exaggerate.
Gov. Rick Scott signed into law 19 bills on Wednesday. The governor's office provided the following list:
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Foster children in Florida have to live by different rules than a typical kid. They cant just go to the beach with friends, without getting approval from the state, or they cant join a soccer team without consulting their case manager.
The children and their foster parents thought the rules went too far.
That all changed today as House Bill 215, the Normalcy Bill," became law.
Florida TaxWatch cautions the Legislature not to repeal an insurance premium tax credit designed to encourage insurance company jobs in Florida -- at least not until it has fully assessed the impacts of what it would be like to live without it.
SB 1832, a bill that would effect the repeal,arose suddenly and is scheduled tobe heard by only one committee -- the SenateAppropriations Committee.
Tallahassee civil litigator Brian Hayden has been appointed to the Leon County Development Support and Environmental Management Citizens User Group, which makes recommendations to county commissioners about growth management measures and issues concerning planning, development review and environmental compliance.
Hayden, of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, has represented clients before the Florida Commission on Ethics and the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings. He will now join the 14-member county committee.
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Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, Thursday explained the $74.3 billion state budget that was unanimously passed out of the chamber on Wednesday.
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