House leaders pulled the plug Monday on a controversial bill that would have spelled out legislators’ immunity from testifying in civil lawsuits moments after a key senator said he could not support the bill, reports Brandon Larrabee of the News Service of Florida. Under the measure (HB 7123), lawmakers would be immune from any civil [...]
The schedule set out for the courts to look at the redistricting plan passed by the Legislature may mean lawmakers will have to give the plan another look after the regular session has ended, if the courts don ‘t like it, Senate President Mike Haridopolos said via The News Service of Florida. Speaking with reporters [...]
The Senate will vote on its budget Feb. 23, Budget Chairman JD Alexander, R-Lake Wales, announced Tuesday via the News Service of Florida. The House has already passed its budget, and after the vote in the Senate, the two chambers will have until March 9 to work out differences if they hope to finish the [...]
A House panel moved forward Monday with a bill aimed at helping doctors fend off medical-malpractice lawsuits — but a proposal to offer sovereign immunity to emergency-room physicians appears dead, reports Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida. Also, it remained unclear whether the House would go along with a controversial Senate proposal that [...]
Brandon Larrabee of the News Service of Florida reports: The Senate’s spending plans for the coming budget year became clearer Tuesday, as lawmakers started work on the nuts-and-bolts numbers of the blueprint. As the House moved toward a vote this week on its own version of the budget, the upper chamber had taken a more [...]
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