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Personnel note: Mark Landreth, Shane Strum make moves

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Mark Landreth, who just came off a four-year tour as executive director of the Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists, now is top government-relations man for the American Heart Association in Florida. He started Dec. 14. “It’s a wonderful organization, and I feel like I’m drinking from a fire hose because the scope of issues is so broad,” he told FloridaPolitics.com. His main goal is passage of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HB 153/SB 760), which would “provide financing to construct, rehabilitate, or expand independent grocery stores and…

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House budget eliminates LIP but assumes local dollars will be sent up to fund health care

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When the Florida House unveiled its budget in March leaders said it contained no supplemental Medicaid dollars that are used to help finance Florida hospitals called the Low Income Pool. But the budget contains about $800 million in “hospital rate enhancements.” Although the enhancements are not technically part of the LIP program they are funded with local tax dollars that are sent to the state for the program. The assumption is local intergovernmental transfers will continue to be sent to the…

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