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Florida Senate says no to Small Biz Saturday tax break

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Every smart shopper knows there’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The National Federation of Independent Business Florida wants to tuck “Small Business Saturday” between those days and has been advancing a proposal that would give shoppers a tax break for shopping locally owned, independent businesses. The tax holiday was in the House tax reduction package HB 33A, and economists predicted it would be a $40 million tax break between local and state taxes. The Senate–which had endorsed a similar proposal…

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As Rick Scott travels to Paris, lawmakers inch closer to final budget

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Gov. Rick Scott traveled to Paris on Friday aiming to bring back to his home state economic development projects. But while Scott is away House and Senate budget negotiators have reached a deal to give the governor considerably less money than he wanted for business recruitment. Sen. Tom Lee and Rep. Richard Corcoran on Saturday agreed to the transportation and economic development portion of the budget. Despite a fervent push from Enterprise Florida officials, the final deal calls for setting…

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Everybody’s working over the weekend, really

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Legislative leaders on Friday said the House and Senate budget chairs would continue to work over the weekend in order to bring the General Appropriations Act in for a landing. The goal is for a copy of the budget to be on lawmakers’ desks by Tuesday so they can wait the mandated 72 hours before voting on the bill. Friday was the initial deadline for state Sen. Tom Lee and state Rep. Richard Corcoran to “bump” any unresolved issue to Senate President…

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House and Senate agree on new LIP model

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Budget chairmen state Sen. Tom Lee and state Rep. Richard Corcoran early Friday came to terms on what was the biggest stumbling block during the 2015 session and what Lee called the “linchpin” of the budget: supplemental Medicaid funding. After working for days, the House made a Low Income Pool offer to the Senate that takes advantage of the full $1 billion in supplemental payments that the federal government advised Florida it would approve. That is a reduction from the current…

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House healthcare bills roll to third reading

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After a regular session where the House presented no healthcare plan or alternative to the headline-grabbing Senate FHIX proposal, the House on Thursday rolled to third reading a number of bills that will comprise its package. House Democrats peppered state Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen with questions before the House rolled to third reading a bill that authorizes in statutes recovery care centers and also allows ambulatory surgical centers to operate for 24 hours. HB 33 A is one of a number…

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Will Gov. Rick Scott be showing up in court next week?

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There could be some courtroom drama next week in Gov. Rick Scott’s lawsuit against the federal government over the fate of $2 billion in supplemental Medicaid money known as Low Income Pool. It was expected that oral arguments would be held on June 19 in the fast-moving lawsuit. But Chief Judge M. Casey Rodgers, in an order issued on Wednesday, said she would hold an evidentiary hearing on the governor’s motion for a preliminary injunction that, if approved, could force the federal government to…

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Rick Scott OKs a data base, more vaccines and burial transmit permits

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Rick Scott vetoed a healthcare bill on Wednesday but he signed many others into law. Below is a list of the bills and a brief description of what they do from the legislative bill analyses. HB 79 Creates the Crisis Stabilization Services Utilization Data Base and requires the Department of Children and Families to develop standards for the collection, storage, transmittal and analysis of data that the managing entities and public receiving facilities must adhere to. Managing entities must comply…

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