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2016 Legislation Session

Takeaways from Tallahassee – The “budget knives come out” edition

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The Florida House released its almost $80 billion proposed 2016-17 state budget in the wee hours of Friday morning, along with a list of all the member requests for money for projects back home. The requests – all 1,067 of them – are also posted on the House website. Appropriations Committee chair Richard Corcoran, the Land O’ Lakes Republican slated to be House Speaker next year, promised to disclose such requests as part of his drive for greater transparency in the Legislature’s yearly budgeting process. Below are just a…

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Boosters laud LGBT anti-discrimination bill; Jack Latvala predicts “long slog” to passage

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An industry consortium supporting a bill to prohibit discrimination against workers based on sexual orientation gathered in the Capitol Tuesday morning, ahead of its first committee stop. Lawmakers joined with representatives of Florida Businesses for a Competitive Workforce in telling reporters the time for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Floridians to be considered equals in the workplace past due. Fortune 500 executives and superminority Democrats alike took the podium along with original House sponsor of the bill, Republican Rep. Holly Raschein,…

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