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Panel OKs erasing Confederate flag from Senate seal

Published on October 8, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Jim Rosica

The Florida Senate’s Rules Committee on Thursday unanimously recommended removing a Confederate flag from the chamber’s official seal and replacing it with the state flag. Senators on the panel voted for the move 9-0. The matter now goes before the full Senate, which could consider it at the beginning of the 2016 Legislative Session in January. The change will require a two-thirds vote of the chamber. As reported earlier, the Senate is reviewing its seal after a renewed debate about Confederate symbols,…

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Senate Rules committee approves Charlotte’s Web fix

Published on April 9, 2015 in Top Headlines by James Call

Licenses to grow and dispense medicinal cannabis under last year’s “Charlotte’s Web” law may be coming soon. The Department of Health would award licenses for medicinal marijuana 75 days after a Charlotte’s Web glitch bill becomes law, according to SPB 7066, a proposal approved Thursday by the Senate Rules Committee. Rules had been SPB 7066’s last scheduled committee stop. “The purpose of this bill is straightforward and simple,” said sponsor state Sen. Rob Bradley. “It is to fulfill a promise…

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Florida Senate panel moves bill to add pregnant women as protected class

Published on April 9, 2015 in Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Under current law, pregnant workers are supposed to be protected from being fired, turned down for employment, or otherwise discriminated against just because they’re pregnant. But it still happens. Here in Florida, state law protects many different groups of people from discrimination, but one group not currently part of that protected class is pregnant women. That would change under a bill being sponsored by Orlando Democratic state Sen. Geraldine Thompson. This morning in the Senate Rules Committee, the panel unanimously approved her…

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