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So, Just What Did (and Didn't) Happen in Florida's Session? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: We are here. The third hour, affectually known as common Sense,
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  Speaker 1: amplified the Morning Show with Preston Scotti's Oaseia and Preston,
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  Speaker 1: Hi there. Good to be back with you. We took
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  Speaker 1: a week off. We let you know, no panic. We
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  Speaker 1: weren't suspended. I wasn't taken off the air. I was
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  Speaker 1: taking a break. It's a little vacation. And so we
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  Speaker 1: are back and please to add back with us in
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  Speaker 1: studio for the first time. And as the kids like
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  Speaker 1: to say, in a minute, yeah, it's been a hot minute. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: hot minute. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard my daughter say that once or twice.
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  Speaker 1: I had to have someone to find it for me
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  Speaker 1: the first time I heard it. What are we talking
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  Speaker 1: about here? Sal Muzo with Consumer's Defense, Sal pays attention.
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  Speaker 1: He's our guru on all things Florida legislature and that
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  Speaker 1: has not changed. But now the session's over. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: literally at the last final moment, they got the budget
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  Speaker 1: across the finish line. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we had talked in and I think it
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  Speaker 2: was June or late May whenever we were in last
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  Speaker 2: and they had a cutoff for getting the budget to
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  Speaker 2: the governor to have it enacted by July one, and
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  Speaker 2: they got right up to that deadline, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and five days, longest session in my career
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  Speaker 2: in Florida policy, and definitely one of the more unique ones,
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  Speaker 2: not for all of the best reasons, but they got
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  Speaker 2: it done. And now they're, you know, already beginning to
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  Speaker 2: think about prep for twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to what did and what didn't get done,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure that in the months to come we'll
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  Speaker 1: maybe notably focus on the things that didn't get done
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  Speaker 1: that might get teed up next time. But let's focus
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  Speaker 1: on the constitutional mandated requirement of getting a budget done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, as you mentioned, the one constitutional requirement
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  Speaker 2: that they have. They took quite a long time to
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  Speaker 2: get it done this year. The governor signed it. Final
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  Speaker 2: figure was one hundred and seventeen point four billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: The budget that passed was one hundred and seventeen point
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  Speaker 2: nine line item veto's a shade under six hundred million.
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  Speaker 2: Two consecutive years of actual reductions in state spending, which
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  Speaker 2: is a boon and a tale to be told to
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  Speaker 2: every other state as well as the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think is most notable about that.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I really kind of paid
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  Speaker 2: a lot of attention to, is anybody who's in the
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  Speaker 2: process did, was the battle between the House, the governor
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  Speaker 2: the tax package. The notable piece of this was that
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  Speaker 2: it was basically a stalemate. Neither side got what I
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  Speaker 2: would consider a win on that. And we can kind
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  Speaker 2: of talk a little bit about kind of some of
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  Speaker 2: the tax cuts that passed, but the base tax rate
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  Speaker 2: reduction that the Speaker was pushing didn't go. The reduction
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  Speaker 2: or elimination of property taxes that the governor wanted didn't go.
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  Speaker 2: And in fact, interestingly enough, one of the line items
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  Speaker 2: that the governor did veto was an appropriation for a
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  Speaker 2: study on how to best do that property tax elimination.
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  Speaker 2: He vetoed that and said, no, we should know how.
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  Speaker 1: To do it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need a study, we don't need a committee,
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  Speaker 2: just get it done. I think that is it's telling,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's going to be part of what
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  Speaker 2: his positioning is in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the budget and you look at
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we've it's a stunningly successful budget by
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  Speaker 1: in terms of a national comparison, Right, Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: the big comparison is always with New York New York.
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 2: New York has got three million fewer residents and a
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  Speaker 2: state budget that is more than twice what Florida is.
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  Speaker 1: When it's all said and done, I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: property tax elimination, you know, I've been advocating it for
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  Speaker 1: twenty three years. That said, I think it needed a
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  Speaker 1: little more time to percolate, to just throw it out
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  Speaker 1: there without a little more study. And I kind of
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  Speaker 1: think that maybe there does need to be some study.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm sort of with you. I'm not of
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  Speaker 2: the position that it well, let me back up. I
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  Speaker 2: think for folks that are playing a role in policy
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  Speaker 2: and moving policy across the finish line, they will often
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  Speaker 2: articulate that most things that are a little bit contentious
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  Speaker 2: or controversial or have a big price tag, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to expect a two to three in some cases for
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  Speaker 2: cycle process for it to actually get done. And so
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  Speaker 2: I think we may be in year two of that now.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily think the brass ring is unattainable.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that, like you said, there may need
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  Speaker 2: to be just a little bit more math done because
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that local governments are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: rely on the tax revenues for the things that they do.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the part that I mean, the consideration of, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what will the governments likely do in response to this
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  Speaker 1: to raise their revenues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so there may need to be other bills
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  Speaker 2: that go along with this, what we would call the
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  Speaker 2: Truth and Taxation Bill, things that the state may want
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  Speaker 2: to pre emp them on how much local option they
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  Speaker 2: could do. Things like that where at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, local governments will need to provide services that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to need revenue. It's just a question of how
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  Speaker 2: they're going to get it. And that's why, like in
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  Speaker 2: any other case, with something like this, it may just take.
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  Speaker 1: Two or three cycles on the House Speaker's proposal that
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  Speaker 1: to me was just not worth considering. But that's just
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  Speaker 1: my personal viewpoint. I just I think it was a
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  Speaker 1: foolish idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think politically the narrative was in his favor.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's easy to message. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, far too much of the sales tax
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  Speaker 2: revenue is paid by tourists visitors, and there are far
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  Speaker 2: too many carve outs, loopholes, exemptions in the sales tax
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  Speaker 2: to make it something that would have mattered more than
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  Speaker 2: a few bucks a month.
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  Speaker 1: let's go through some highlights.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, So fifteen point seven billion in reserves added eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million. And I thought this was notable
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  Speaker 2: because of the juxtaposition with the FEDS eight hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty million in funding for Florida's Accelerated Debt repayment program.
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  Speaker 2: So the state's actually going to pay off about half
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  Speaker 2: of the debt accrued since we became a state in
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  Speaker 2: eighteen forty five. Now compare that to Washington, DC, and
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  Speaker 2: Florida does this without a state income tax. We do
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  Speaker 2: it by having a great business climate, by having a
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  Speaker 2: regulatory system that encourages investment, encourages business to start open
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  Speaker 2: and grow in the state, and we broaden the base
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  Speaker 2: of economic development in a way that makes this all possible.
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  Speaker 2: The contrast to Washington could not be more stark. On
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  Speaker 2: the state balance sheet, what are the debts? What's the total?
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I would have to go back and figure
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  Speaker 2: it out, because I know that they've taken it down
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  Speaker 2: a bunch since Rick Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rick Scott's been noted for doing that.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe debt occurs when like they need to
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  Speaker 2: issue bonds for certain things and down periods and whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: and so it accumulates and we're paying interest and so,
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  Speaker 2: but it is still debt and it's on the balance well.
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  Speaker 1: And but that now starts to be offset by reserves
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  Speaker 1: and the rainy day fund and all of these things,
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  Speaker 1: so we might not be relying on having to do
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  Speaker 1: that in the.
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  Speaker 2: Future, right exactly. That is the salient point that as
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  Speaker 2: we're building up reserves, as we're adding to those rainy
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  Speaker 2: day funds, we're making it more likely that we will
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  Speaker 2: not have to issue dead in the future, which again
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  Speaker 2: is something I wish Washington would take note of. Imagine
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  Speaker 2: if the state of Florida called in to Dave Ramsey, right,
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  Speaker 2: called into the Dave Ramsey Show, and the State of
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  Speaker 2: Florida said freedom, We're debt free. Did the we're debt free?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're not quite there, no, but but the
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  Speaker 1: fact is it can be. The state can be debt free.
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  Speaker 1: And what a statement that would make.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely again a contrast to Washington, DC, A beacon to
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  Speaker 2: every other state out there that you can in fact
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  Speaker 2: operate a state government in an efficient and effective manner.
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  Speaker 2: Pay raises for state employees, Yeah, raises two percent. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably around what a cola would be at this point,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't really get it all the inflation we
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  Speaker 2: had under the Biden administration. No, However, there are some
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  Speaker 2: ten and fifteen percent increases coming for public safety employees
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  Speaker 2: with more than five years in this in the job,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's a number of ways at which we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to continue to bolster the state workforce.
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  Speaker 1: There. We always hear about sales tax holidays. Yep, what
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  Speaker 1: happened there.
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  Speaker 2: So, but first we I want to go to there,
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  Speaker 2: but I do want to highlight the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: business rent tax has been eliminated completely. We were the
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  Speaker 2: only state in the country that levied a sales tax
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  Speaker 2: on a commercial lease. So if you own a business
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  Speaker 2: and you rent your space your office, you had to
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  Speaker 2: pay a sales tax on that. That will that's going
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  Speaker 2: away completely.
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  Speaker 1: July one, Did it go away? Does it go away
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  Speaker 1: in the fall? I believe July one? So it's done. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's done.
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  Speaker 2: Nice on the sales tax holidays, permanent back to School
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  Speaker 2: sales tax holiday every August for clothing under one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: school supplies under fifty learning aids, personal computers under fifteen hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Permanent sales tax exemption on event tickets, state park admissions,
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  Speaker 2: life jacket, sunscreen, bike helmets, insect repellent. You know, all
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  Speaker 2: of this stuff are outside disaster preparedness items. Also permanent
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  Speaker 2: exemptions there, batteries, generators, tarps, all of that stuff year round.
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  Speaker 2: Second Amendment sales tax holiday September eighth to December thirty
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  Speaker 2: first on purchases of firearms, bows, ammunition, tents, sleeping bags, stoves,
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  Speaker 2: fishing rods, all of that stuff. Now, in theory, you know, great,
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  Speaker 2: the libertarian or the free marketer in me is more
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  Speaker 2: of a all right, you're really just shifting purchases and
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  Speaker 2: it makes it a little bit more challenging for retailers
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  Speaker 2: to manage inventory. But with that said, I mean we've
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  Speaker 2: become accustomed to and with the tourism the way it is,
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  Speaker 2: I understand why they go about it this way versus
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  Speaker 2: the rate reduction on the whole.
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  Speaker 1: More to come with sound notes news. Oh, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. We're going to get into
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  Speaker 1: some of the funding silos before we talk about some
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  Speaker 1: Salnuzo with me consumers. Defense funding silos describe a silo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so just categories of the budget sometimes are called allocations.
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  Speaker 2: For example, education a share shade under about sixteen billion
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  Speaker 2: in the K twelve arena. The funding per student is
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  Speaker 2: ninety one hundred and thirty dollars, up about one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty some dollars per student one point four billion
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  Speaker 2: for teacher pay increases another six seven billion dollars in
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  Speaker 2: higher education.
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  Speaker 1: How much of that, you know, teacher pay increase goes
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  Speaker 1: to the people that have been there a while as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to incentivizing.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe the majority of this is to get
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  Speaker 2: out of the salary compression problems from a few years back.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's meant to address some of that.
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  Speaker 2: Transportation fifteen billion, everglades protection one point four billion. You've
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  Speaker 2: got just notable. You've got huge chunks of the budget
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  Speaker 2: that aren't a part of the discretionary general fund pool.
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  Speaker 2: For example, thirty percent of Florida's total budget. So thirty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the one hundred and seventeen billion is money
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  Speaker 2: coming from the federal government taxpayers, but from the feds
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  Speaker 2: just for the federal portion of medicaid other things are
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  Speaker 2: other parts of the budget are somewhat similar, none that
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  Speaker 2: are quite as large, But that's kind of we're getting
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  Speaker 2: some of our money back. Yeah, But that's also why
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  Speaker 2: when you look at some of these silos, some of
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  Speaker 2: them are mixes of federal and state money. Some of
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  Speaker 2: them are just state. But that's I just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that was mentioned and on the line on
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  Speaker 2: in veto's, so the governor has line on a veto authority.
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  Speaker 2: There was not as much acts as in years prior.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at it, and I did look
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  Speaker 2: at how much he vetoed relative to what other states do,
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  Speaker 2: it would it would look it looks massive. I also
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  Speaker 2: took a look to see, all right, was there a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of political retribution in there? I didn't see much,
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  Speaker 2: And you know, there was a part of me that
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  Speaker 2: was wonder, with all of the drama back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: would that be the case. However, one item did stand out,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll point to it on bikes Pensacola. It was
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  Speaker 2: a small sixty two, five hundred dollars appropriation. It got tossed.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably not a coincidence that the one of their
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  Speaker 2: vice presidents is Representative Alexandrotti, who is the chair of
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  Speaker 2: the committee that probed Hope Florida, the charity for the
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  Speaker 2: First Lady that she was running. That had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of back and forth there so, but there wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of you know, kind of oh the governor
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  Speaker 2: went after me, or anything along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: So we got about a minute left in the segment
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  Speaker 1: to leave enough time on the back side of the break.
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  Speaker 1: What is most important about what the governor signed?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so two hundred and forty seven bills signed. He
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  Speaker 2: vetoed eleven, which is more than he has in his
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  Speaker 2: entire administration.
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  Speaker 1: And those eleven bills have any commonality.
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  Speaker 2: Not really. There were just a little bit all over
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  Speaker 2: the map, and for different reasons too. He did allow
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  Speaker 2: three bills to become law without signature, which again they
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  Speaker 2: were all over the map. One was a relief bill
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  Speaker 2: for someone who had been incarcerated who was innocent. One
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  Speaker 2: was for.
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  Speaker 1: Which, by the way, I don't think was enough. It
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  Speaker 1: was not.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know that there's any number I know,
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  Speaker 2: but I talked about that story. Yeah, yeah, I'm with
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  Speaker 2: you there. One on nursing education where he was he
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  Speaker 2: viewed it as too much bureaucratic red tape in conjunction
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  Speaker 2: with programs that already exist, and there was just not
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of rhyme or reason, which makes sense
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  Speaker 2: if you're looking at it, you know, comprehensively.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, We've got more to talk about with regard to
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  Speaker 8: I'm jose Ken you c A Leon County judge says
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  Speaker 8: it's too early to decide whether Donna Adelson's murder trial
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  Speaker 8: should be moved. Adolson is accused in the twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 8: murder for hire of her former son in law FSU
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  Speaker 8: law professor Dan Markel. Her trial is set for August nineteenth,
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: and the judge emphasized both sides must be ready by
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: that date. A twenty year old Leon County man is
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: dead after an ATV crash on the Tallahassees Saint Mark's
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: Historic Railroad State Trail. Florida Highway Patrol states he veered
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: off the trail, hit a tree, and was ejected. His
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: mother and stepfather found his body just after eight a m. Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: He was pronounced dead at the scene.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: A thirty four year old man is facing attempted murder
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: charges after allegedly attacking someone with a machete. Willie Simms
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: was arrested Thursday, more than twelve hours after deputies found
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: a man seriously injured near Fairbanks Ferry Road. Simms also
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: faces charges for battery on law enforcement and resisting arrest.
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  Speaker 8: On Tuesday, the Leon County Commission voted four to three
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  Speaker 8: to approve a five percent across the board pay increase
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  Speaker 8: for all Leon County government and constitutional officer employees in
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  Speaker 8: the fiscal year twenty twenty six budget and in FSU sports,
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  Speaker 8: Florida State star pitcher Jamie Arnold was selected by the
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Athletics as the eleventh overall pick in last night's draft.
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  Speaker 1: Also, Florida State's golf star Lottie.
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• 28:44
  Speaker 8: a five time First Team All American, is the first
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  Speaker 1: This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Two segments
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  Speaker 1: left with Salnuzzo of Consumers Defense. Time flies when you're
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: talking about the state of Florida and the legislative session
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  Speaker 1: that was. Yes, indeed, so let's talk about bills that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: got done and those that did not got vetoed.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, so I went through and try to figure out
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: what are some of the ones that kind of apply
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: to the listening audience the most potentially. So first and
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: foremost is the condo Regulation Bill House Built nine thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and three ninety three. I think it's helpful to dive
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: into this one because you've got a lot of listeners
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: in Bay County. Leon County residents have condos over the coast.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: It's a big deal. So over the last ten years,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: you've got a large number of these Skyrise buildings did
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: not have these extensive engineering expenses or inspections. Right, you've
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: got a twenty story building on the beach, their sand
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: erosion things happen. This is a result of a law
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: passed under the Charlie Christ administration that allowed those buildings
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: to forego those inspections if the board wanted to surfside happened.
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  Speaker 2: The collapse a few years ago, and then everybody said, WHOA,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: We've got to figure this out. Over the past three sessions,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the legislator has been fine tuning those regulations to balance
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: the need for you want to have buildings safe and
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: protect against a collapse. But you've got financial realities impacting
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: those condo owners. So these two bills allow for an
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: extended time period to get inspections done, the condo association
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: can access financing channels for the repairs and renovation work.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: It creates more transparency requirements on the association and management
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: companies and so forth. And then there's this other part
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: that provides a connecting point between the condos and the
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: MACE Florida program, which would also open up some other
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: channel for granting to get some of those things done.
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  Speaker 1: Ultimately, the responsibility for the safety of a building falls where.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it depends on who you ask. If you ask
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: the management company, they would say the board and the
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: residence they vote on what it is. The residents would say, well,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the management company's job is to give us the information
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: that we need, and the board they want to be
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: inoculated from everything in order to know that they're not
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: going to get sued if something happens.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Does the State of Florida step in and take any
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: responsibility for that based on inspections?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know yet. I don't believe that's the case.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: And these are all privately owned buildings. So I think
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: that's kind of maybe a bridge too far at this point.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Right along those lines, you've also got Senate Bill sixteen
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: twenty two repealed the twenty eighteen law on beach access.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: So in eighteen they passed a law that allowed condos
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: and homes on the beach to declare the beach in
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: front of the building to the mean high tideline private.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, if you own a condo or a
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: big home on the beach. It created all kinds of
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: problems and like, so people would be walking on the
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: beach and someone would call the sheriff's office or they'd
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: plan a chair there. A deputy we'd come over and
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: say you've got to move your chair down a bit,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: and they're like why, and it's this law. It was
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: a train wreck. An interesting note was it was passed
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: because the current ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, former governor
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: of Arkansas, owned a house on the beach, and like
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Destin or Fort Walton or somewhere, he didn't like people
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: walking in front of his house, and so it just
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: kind of a weird confluence of things there. Okay, Yeah,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: two eighty nine Lucy's Law reckless voting. If you leave
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: the scene of an accident where someone's hurt but it's
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: not a serious bodily injury, you can now be charged
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: with a third degree felony if it's a serious injury,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: second degree felony. Accident involving a death will be punishable
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: as first degree felony, So those are all increased. Senate
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Bill one thirty the Clean Hands Repeal. If you're wrongly
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: convicted of a crime in Florida and you spend time
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: in prison, you would now be eligible for compensation even
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: if you have a prior felony conviction prior to July one.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: If you had a prior felony, you were considered you
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: did not have clean hands, so you were not eligible,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: and so this law repeals that. Senate Bill oneh eight
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: The Florida Doge Effort mandates a comprehensive five year review
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: cycle for every single agency rule. Imposes stricter timelines on
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: publication requirements for agencies crafting new REGs. It's basically what
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: we would call the RAINS Act, the Regulations from the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Executive in Need of Review Act at the state level
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: eliminates red tape licensing delays and all of that are
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: en compass there.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: All right when we come back, Vetos and what didn't
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  Speaker 1: Consumers Defense? What got veto so a few that I
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: thought were notable. Fourteen forty five prohibited any agency staff
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: from doing political work, along with a requirement that all
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: appointments to boards be floor to resident residents full time.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: There were some issues with that occurring. The legislature said
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: we wanted to rein that in and the governor said no.
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  Speaker 1: Two ninety five would have required a new statewide waste
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  Speaker 1: reduction and recycling plan. Fifteen seventy four would have required
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  Speaker 1: the Public Service Commission to create a new experimental rate
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: mechanism to permit utilities to build rate payers for capital
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: investments and renewable natural gas, which aligns with the Governor's
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  Speaker 1: take on renewable energy and kind of pushing away from
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: some of the left agenda on ESG. House Bill one
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: It passed unanimously by the Senate, and the House would
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: have compelled the Florida Commission on a Fender Review to
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: consider how an inmate worked on improvement while being imprisoned
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: through vocational training, substance abuse treatment, educational programs, other self
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: help programs when deciding on early parole.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: This one vexed me. I don't know why, but the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: fact that it was passed unanimously means it's likely going
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: to get pushed right back through.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I would love to see this one come back. And
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: if there were some language in the bill that gave
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: him pause, maybe they can tweak it somehow and tighten
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: it's They've done that before with him in prior years,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: so we'll have to see there.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: But I mean, they can override his veto. They can.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: My guess is they would have enough votes in the House.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure on the Senate.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Even though it was past unanimously.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's also I mean, you're also making a statement
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: with a veto override, so the vote is a little
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: bit more seriously considered, I think, and I often wonder
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: in the makeup of the Senate whether or not the
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: votes to override would be there. The free kill repeals
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: sixty seventeen, so when an adult individual dies from medical
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: negligence and they don't have a spouse or children, immediate family,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: parents and grandparents are not allowed to sue. The legislature
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: wanted to allow this, the governor said no. He claimed
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: it would be another avenue to trial layers exactly the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: boogeyman there. I don't know. I can understand the cases
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: on both sides of this one. I don't think it's
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: going to be as big of an issue with respect
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: to litigation as other things, but I get the governor
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: wanted to have a consistent stance there. And then the
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: nursing education program, he indicated too much bureaucratic red tape
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: in the program didn't align with existing funding streams that
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: had something called the pipeline and line where I think
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: they're going to focus on those things as well.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: When we look at the session, I called it in
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: many regards of failed session for a lot of reasons,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: infighting between a super majority in the House and a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: super majority in the Senate. But from your chair, what
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: didn't get done a lot.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: And we've talked about this over the course of this
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: entire year. There was a whole lot that got left
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: on the field that shouldn't have been in my opinion.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: And you've got closing the loopholes on a verify, you've
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: got the training wage, the minimum wage carve outs, HEMP
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: regulations on the companies that are not doing the actual
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: medical marijuana. But this other stuff, all of the tech
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: bills that had been pushed forward, term limits for municipal officials,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: they're probably going to come back to put that on
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: the ballot. I think reversing the tort reforms, now, this
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: is something that they were wanting to do and didn't
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: get done. But I'm glad it didn't get done. One
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I wish that would have gone through. The speed limit increase,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I it's a personal preference. There enhance penalties for killing
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: a law enforcement officer passed the Senate, didn't get through
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: the House. The Senate President's priority, the program called the
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Rule Renaissance Program. It was one bill in the Senate.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: It got broken up into three bills in the House.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I think there was a part of it that may
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: have gotten on the veto list of the governor in
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: the line items, but that didn't make it through. There
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: was a lot that I think a super super majority
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: conservative legislature would have tackled a lot more of these,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: especially in a non election year session. But we will
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: see what happens in the coming year.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: What about the coming session with the leadership in its
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: final year.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if listeners are unfamiliar, you've got one more
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: year of the current Speaker and Senate President than they
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: term out, and you've got a new Senate President and
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: new speaker coming in and the session starts early. The
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: session starts early because of the fact that it's an
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: election year. They go January February into early March. It's
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: also the governor's last year in office. You've got the
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: mid terms, the cabinet election, so the pre session committee
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: weeks actually begin in October of this year. And I
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: would I'm going to make a prediction, I would be
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: shocked to see a repeat of what transpired this past session.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: With that being said, like I was shocked at how
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: bad it got this year. So who knows, but it
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: is never dull in the great state of Florida.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: We could be New York. We could be New York.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: We're not.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Thankfully we are not. Someone told me a while back
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: how great a state is it when the legislature and
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: governor are arguing over which massive tax cut is the
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: better one to do. So I'm going to try and
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: look at, you know, the optimistic silver lining there, but
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: I'm really hoping that cooler heads prevail in terms of
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: the internal dynamics in the drama.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Always a pleasure to be with you,
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