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The week ahead in the Florida Legislature

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This week in Florida Politics we shall seek clarity. By weekā€™s end we will know about the House and Senate’s competing budget proposals, how Rob Bradley intends to solve the Charlotteā€™s Web mystery and whether service in the Confederate Army is Hall of Fame material. The highlight of a busy week comes Wednesday when both the Senate Appropriations and the House Appropriations committees will work on their respective budget proposals. The Houseā€™s opening bid is $76.2 billion and the Senate’s…

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The week that was in Florida politics — March 20

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This week in Florida Politics gulfs widen; the separation between the House and Senate, environmentalists and lawmakers and relevancy and the Democratic Party grew wider and deeper. The Senate moved $5 billion further away from the House over a state budget for next year. The Senate has a plan to fill the hole created by the scheduled end of a federal program that reimburses hospitals for providing care to the uninsured. The plan directs $2 billion to safety net hospitals,…

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Rob Bradley will take up Charlotte’s Web’s unsolved mystery Tuesday

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State Sen. Rob Bradley is preparing to free the Charlotteā€™s Web law from a bureaucratic swamp of lawsuits, hearings and workshops. He filed a shell bill, which his Regulated Industries Committee will take up Tuesday. SP 7066 states: ā€œThe Legislature intends to revise laws relating to low-THC cannabis. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.ā€ The billā€™s language will be available at least 24 hours before Tuesdayā€™s 1:30 p.m. meeting. It will attempt to solve what state…

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The day that was in Florida politics – March 19

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A marijuana lobbyist said to me a couple of weeks ago that he suspected the latest challenge to the Charlotteā€™s Web rule would ā€œsmoke outā€ peopleā€™s true intention; whether they disliked the rule or disliked the law. Itā€™s the end of the third week of the session and weā€™re getting to the ā€œsmoke outā€ point on a few issues. Thursday things got a little smoky with the environment, healthcare and the list of approved words for state employees. Donā€™t know…

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House prepares Dept. of Corrections bill; Dems say it lacks oversight

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A record number of inmates — 346 —Ā died last year in Florida prisons. Most were from natural causes but federal and state law enforcement agencies are investigating why there were so many deaths. In recent legislative hearings, several prison guards testified under oath about the stressful conditions they work under. State Sen.Ā Greg EversĀ is behind a bill that sets up an independent prison oversight board that reports directly to the Legislature. The House is preparing a proposal that might be released…

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Charlotte’s Web hearing scheduled for April 14

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An administrative law judge has scheduled a hearing for April 14 on a rule challenge for the stateā€™s Charlotteā€™s Web law. Judge Elisabeth W. McArthur has scheduled the hearing for 9:30 a.m at the DeSoto Building in Tallahassee. It is the second legal challenge filed against the Department of Health over proposed regulations to grow marijuana and dispense medicinal cannabis oil. In preparation for the hearing DOH is beefing up its legal team. The Department has informed McArthur that Tallahassee…

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4th Floor Files talks with Steve Wise about shoes, spaghetti and Ronald Reagan

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Stephen R. WiseĀ served 25 years as a lawmaker; first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1989 and term-limited out of the Senate in 2014. Wise was a skillful lawmaker in the area of education. As chair of both education appropriation and policy committees he would hold up bills until he believed they were ready for debate. He often spiced his floor speeches with stories of his time as a classroom teacher in the mid-1960s. ā€œI thought I was…

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