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Florida House Committee approves Hillsborough ridesharing bill

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A local bill (HB 1439) to regulate ridesharing companies in Hillsborough County failed to earn unanimous approval from the entire local delegation late last year, but it sailed through the House Local Government Affairs Subcommittee on Monday morning in Tallahassee. Tampa Republican Dana Young told the committee that the legislation was “substantially similar” to the major ridesharing bill sponsored by Fort Walton Beach Republican Matt Gaetz that passed the entire House overwhelmingly last week. That measure includes provisions addressing background checks and insurance…

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USF Heart Institute is largest request from Hillsborough House members

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Among the items Hillsborough County legislators are requesting in the just-unveiled 2016-2017 House budget, none looms larger than the $22.5 million sought for the USF Morsani College of Health Heart Institute. In February 2015, USF’s request to relocate its new Morsani College of Medicine and USF Heart Institute to downtown Tampa was approved, and in June, Gov. Rick Scott allotted $17 million from the state budget to fund it. The total cost of the project is about $153 million. According…

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Bill to combat gas pump “skimmers” passes Senate panel

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A bill that requires gas stations to toughen up security and increases penalties for fuel pump fraudsters cleared its first Senate panel Monday. SB 912 would require gas stations to secure fuel pump credit card readers to defend against data theft devices, known as “skimmers,” that capture credit and debit card information. The bill also ups the punishment for credit card theft to a second-degree felony, which carries up to a 15-year prison sentence and $10,000 fine, and lowers the threshold from 10 stolen cards…

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House advances bill that would OK smaller restaurants in Hillsborough to serve alcohol

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It’s not likely that anyone would actually know this, but Florida state law requires that any restaurant that serves alcohol must be at least 2,500 square feet in size. In Hillsborough County, however, state law says that restaurants that sell booze must be at least 4,000 square feet. Attempting to rectify that anomaly, Tampa Republican Dana Young is pushing a local bill (HB 1417)  that would give Hillsborough a break. It would change state law to allow restaurants there to use the same criteria as every one…

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Tampa Democrats ponder entering new campaigns

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The recent creation of a state Senate seat in Tampa via a redistricting lawsuit has spurred some Hillsborough County political figures into action. Republican political figures that is. Dana Young said last week she’ll not run for re-election to her House District 60 seat this year and instead seek the new state Senate seat encompassing west Hillsborough County, extending from MacDill Air Force Base north to Pasco County. That prompted fellow Republican Jackie Toledo to declare her candidacy for Young’s…

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Janet Cruz won’t run for new Tampa state Senate seat

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Tampa state House Democrat Janet Cruz will not run for the newly created state Senate seat in Hillsborough County, POLITICO Florida is reporting. “It would cost $4 million,” Cruz tells POLITICO’s Matt Dixon. “I could win it this year, but it’s a two-year seat I would have to raise $4 million for again and probably not hold.” Cruz has served in the Florida House in District 62 since January of 2010, when she won a special election to succeed Mike Scionti. She has moved up…

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Harry Cohen is thinking about running for the Florida House

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Tampa City Councilman Harry Cohen spoke to a packed room of constituents early Friday in South Tampa, on issues regarding stormwater, billboards in SoHo and how the city will handle the post-clean-up efforts after next weekend’s Gasparilla celebration. It’s the type of outreach that he says he loves about his job at council, but he admits he’s thinking about serving them from a different place — such as the Florida House of Representatives. “I’m going to look at,” Cohen said…

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