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Monday in the Legislature: Gas receipts, self-storage, Islamic State

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It’s Week 7 of the 2016 Legislative Session, and Monday brings yet another assortment of policy bills, including measures on gas pumps, self-storage units and even declarations of war. First, the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee takes up SB 1148, sponsored by Tallahassee Democrat Bill Montford, requiring “self-service gas station pumps to have a receipt printer that is in good working order, and capable of producing receipts,” the bill analysis says. “This requirement will be enforced by intermittent inspections of the self-service pumps…

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Legislators promise to keep death penalty, fix law

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Saying it’s time to put the “death penalty” debate to rest, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature began taking its first steps Wednesday to find a way to preserve executions in the state. State senators spent hours with prosecutors, former judges, and defenders to come up with a way to respond to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The nation’s highest court earlier this month found that Florida’s death penalty procedure is flawed because it allows judges — not juries — to…

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Jeff Brandes driver’s license suspension reform bill passes unanimously in committee

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A bill that would that would reform the driver’s license and revocation process in Florida passed unanimously Thursday in the Senate Transportation Commission. The legislation (SB 7046) sponsored by St. Petersburg Republican Jeff Brandes would revise requirements relating to the payment of court-related fines or other monetary penalties, fees, charges, and costs. It would also require traffic citation forms to include certain language relating to payment of a penalty and require a court to inquire regarding a person’s ability to pay at…

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Larry Ahern wants Congress to declare war on Islamic terrorism

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The Florida Legislature convened Tuesday to begin their 60-day session with huge issues confronting them: such as coming together on a major water bill, and dealing with legislation regarding guns, the death penalty, rape kits, education, and health care. But Pinellas County House Republican Larry Ahern also wants the Legislature to weigh in on weightier topics such as going after Islamic terrorists. Specifically, Ahern wants Congress to declare war on al-Qaida, ISIS, ISLE, and “all other Islamic terrorist organizations that similarly engage…

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Controversial gun bills advance in Senate

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Tuesday saw a rapid-fire morning for gun legislation in Tallahassee, with pro-Second Amendment groups getting the better of the shoot-out. A pair of bills to expand where and how Floridians can carry firearms — on college campuses and without concealment, respectively — advanced in Senate committees, as did one that strengthens the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law meant to protect the rights of people using deadly force in self-defense. The so-called “campus carry” bill — SB 68 by state Sen. Greg Evers — was approved…

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Maria Sachs files amendment to campus carry bill

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State Sen. Maria Sachs has filed an amendment to this year’s “campus carry” legislation that would allow each public college and university to decide whether to allow concealed weapons on campuses. Sachs, a Delray Beach Democrat, submitted the change Monday to the bill (SB 68). The legislation as currently written would delete the current blanket prohibition on concealed weapons being carried into “any college or university facility.” Gun-rights advocates, such as the National Rifle Association, have joined with legislative Republicans to…

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Bill Day’s latest: Florida battles (again) over guns on campus

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Bill Day’s latest takes aim at Florida lawmakers, who once again are pushing ahead with a bill that seeks to allow people to carry guns on college campuses. Backed by the National Rifle Association, the campus concealed carry bill – as well as another proposal – became the first measures passed by legislative committees in preparation for the 2016 Legislative Session beginning January. Sponsored in the House by state Rep. Greg Steube of Sarasota, and state Sen. Greg Evers of Baker…

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