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Lawmakers building a veto-proof healthcare budget

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Florida’s legislative leaders are trying to make the healthcare financing decisions they made during the June special session veto-proof. The Florida House and Senate were at odds throughout the 2015 regular legislative session on health care spending and policy. Indeed, the inability to agree on how much additional Medicaid funding to include the budget was the reason the chamber’s didn’t pass a budget on time. But that was then and this is now. House and Senate leaders not only agreed…

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Gov. Scott vetoes a trio of bills including one championed by Tom Lee

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Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday vetoed a trio of bills, including one by Senate budget chief Sen. Tom Lee and another he said he didn’t even need to reject. Lee supported a rewrite of the Administrative Procedures Act, HB 435, and sponsored the Senate companion bill. The governor said the changes in the bill could result in prolonged litigation impending an agency’s ability to perform core functions like sanctioning bad actors and protecting public health and safety.” The bill, Scott…

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Beekeepers, stung by 2014 veto, try again for research site

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Florida’s beekeepers say honey bees play a sweet role in agriculture and the economy but they need help — and state funding — to maintain a healthy population. The Florida State Beekeepers Association is requesting $3.5 million for an apiary research center at the University of Florida. Florida is the third largest honey-producing state, with a reported crop value of $22.7 million in 2013, according to the university. The state has about 3,500 beekeepers now compared with 1,200 a decade…

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Charlie Crist faces pro-life radio ads after vetoing abortion-ultrasound bill

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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is facing a new radio advertising campaign from a pro-life group after recently vetoing a bill that would have allowed women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn baby prior to an abortion. Today, the Family Research Council Action PAC launched a statewide radio ad campaign in response to the veto. The ad will air across the state over the next week on 74 Florida radio stations. “Governor Charlie Crist used to claim to…

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Senate candidate Paul Phillips comments on veto of HB 1143

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Normally I wouldn’t publish such a long press release, but Paul Phillip’s response to the veto of HB 1143 is so articulate and such a good read, I am compelled to share it with my readers: I take issue with the many candidates and politicians glomming on to Charlie Crist’s veto of House Bill 1143 (HB 1143) and focusing only on the Ultrasound issue. Their arguments are often weak, unfounded, and illogical, wreaking of emotionalism and conjecture. It is apparent…

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Charlie Crist to decide on abortion bill ‘sooner rather than later’

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Charlie Crist indicated Tuesday he planned to veto an anti-abortion bill “sooner rather than later,” and that the public pressure his office has received to sign the bill was outweighed by the advice he’s been getting from people first-hand. “I have concerns about it,” Crist told reporters Tuesday morning. “The notion that there would be a forced ultrasound, if you will, that would have to be paid for by the woman involved, those are things that seem to me to…

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Charlie Crist to decide on abortion bill ‘sooner rather than later’

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Charlie Crist indicated Tuesday he planned to veto an anti-abortion bill “sooner rather than later,” and that the public pressure his office has received to sign the bill was outweighed by the advice he’s been getting from people first-hand. “I have concerns about it,” Crist told reporters Tuesday morning. “The notion that there would be a forced ultrasound, if you will, that would have to be paid for by the woman involved, those are things that seem to me to…

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