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Florida's Legislative Session ... Week 1 · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do the third hour of what has
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  Speaker 1: been a very eventful morning for me here on the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scalva. We're not talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: We are talking about the legislative session. And joining me
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  Speaker 1: the executive director of Consumer's Defense and our resident expert
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  Speaker 1: on all things legislative, Sal news O, Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be with you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: If I were to ask you years of mis experience
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  Speaker 1: watching the way these sessions unfold, how would you grade
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  Speaker 1: the first week they.
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  Speaker 3: Came out the gate strong? I will say, especially on
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  Speaker 3: the House. They passed eight bills just out of the
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  Speaker 3: full chamber, just on Thursday. It was the first day
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  Speaker 3: of full session that they were passing things, and so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, quicker than I had anticipated. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a it's a series of sixty sprints that
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  Speaker 3: make up a sixty day marathon.
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  Speaker 1: So the governor stay the state. What was the reaction
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  Speaker 1: to it by lawmakers and what was your reaction to him?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the big thing that got mentioned was
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  Speaker 3: in the media, and if you're paying attention to kind
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  Speaker 3: of the bubble of the drama, was quote unquote the
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  Speaker 3: snug the fact that the governor shook Senate President Ben
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  Speaker 3: Alberton's hand, did not shake the House Speaker's hand, gave
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  Speaker 3: the state of the state, and kind of what we
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  Speaker 3: would have expected, the laundry list of priorities that they've accomplished.
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  Speaker 3: What he's hoping to leave is his legacy, which we
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  Speaker 3: all know to be kind of the reform or elimination
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  Speaker 3: of property taxes in the state. But there definitely was
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  Speaker 3: one thing because a lot was mentioned about the fact that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what was the governor thinking when he didn't
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  Speaker 3: shake Speaker Perez's hand. It is a very tense There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of water that's gone under that bridge, there is,
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  Speaker 3: and the Speaker is not immune from falling into this
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  Speaker 3: as well. Many will remember if you pay attention to
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  Speaker 3: the process. Last year, the House the Speaker's office released
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  Speaker 3: a very wonderfully produced video about twenty five years of
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  Speaker 3: House speakers in the state of Florida and kind of
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  Speaker 3: celebrating their leadership, and they named each one, but they
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  Speaker 3: conveniently skipped over Josea Leva, who the Speaker and he
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  Speaker 3: are not on good terms and so and yet he's
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  Speaker 3: an ally the governor. And so there's all of this,
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  Speaker 3: and it does happen. It's just kind of like the
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  Speaker 3: media paid attention to it. I think because it was
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  Speaker 3: the governor's State of the State address.
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  Speaker 1: What if anything beyond that was notable last week relating
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  Speaker 1: to the governor.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean the governor's office. The LG finally announced
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  Speaker 3: that he is in fact running for the main seat.
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  Speaker 1: So Jay Collins is in.
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  Speaker 3: J Collins is in it. It was a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a rough kind of launch. Someone noted there was
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  Speaker 3: a spelling error in the press release, and notably the
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  Speaker 3: governor did not come out and endorse them. Not sure
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  Speaker 3: it really would be speculating at this point. Apart from that,
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  Speaker 3: what we do know is Paul Renner is in fact
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  Speaker 3: posting some really good fundraising numbers. I would you suggest
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  Speaker 3: probably Byron Donalds. It's still his race to lose. He's
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  Speaker 3: still in the hen.
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  Speaker 1: It's the quietness from mister Donalds.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I am not a campaign strategist at all,
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  Speaker 3: but my guess is that as drama's unfolding and they're
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  Speaker 3: doing their thing, he can kind of keep himself insulated,
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  Speaker 3: kind of point to his own agenda and let his
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  Speaker 3: future opponents or perspective opponents kind of battle it out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Governor DeSantis will endorse one of the
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  Speaker 1: candidates at some point or just let it see its
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  Speaker 1: way to the end and then join in whoever the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans pick in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really good quest question, and the answer is,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, because it's a really kind of delicate
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  Speaker 3: political calculus.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got.
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  Speaker 3: Folks who have really, really been loyal to you, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Speaker, Paul Renner passed every single one of the
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  Speaker 3: governor's priorities, and they were his priorities too. You also
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  Speaker 3: have your lieutenant governor. But then you've got the you know,
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred pound gorilla of the Trump endorsement with Byron
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  Speaker 3: Donald's and I get why he is hesitant at this
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  Speaker 3: point to kind of come off the fence and make a,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a formal endorsement. With that being said, I
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  Speaker 3: don't see how he It would be a challenge for
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  Speaker 3: me to be in that seat and try to navigate that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see how he might actually lay one down
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  Speaker 3: before the primary.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly wouldn't do it till the session's over.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you won't hear a peep from him before before
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  Speaker 3: even the specials.
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  Speaker 1: Are absolutely week one is technically it's week one in
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  Speaker 1: the rearview mirror, week two ahead. Budget wise, it's obviously
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  Speaker 1: the constitutional mandated thing they've got to do, so obviously
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be something kind of kicked around early.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and normally we would not necessarily hear much about
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  Speaker 3: the budget this early in the process, particularly in the
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  Speaker 3: first week. However, you did have both of the Chambers
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  Speaker 3: budget leaders making some public statements, and to me, that's
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  Speaker 3: an indicator one they do not want twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 3: to be a repeat of twenty twenty five, at least
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  Speaker 3: in that respect.
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  Speaker 2: All of the.
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  Speaker 3: Main drama for the overtime last year was because of
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  Speaker 3: the budget, and you know, this is one where I
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  Speaker 3: was a little bit surprised, not just by that part,
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  Speaker 3: but the fact that they're actually also talking about potentially
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  Speaker 3: having another actual dollar cut in the final budget number
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  Speaker 3: compared to the current year. I thought, based on where
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  Speaker 3: they landed in twenty twenty five, we had reached the
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  Speaker 3: floor of what you could realistically run a state of
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  Speaker 3: our size and whatnot on I'm going to be intrigued
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  Speaker 3: to see where they're seeing less money coming from now.
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  Speaker 3: It could be all federal pass through dollars, in which
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  Speaker 3: case that would make sense. If that money is going away,
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  Speaker 3: you do not want to necessarily backfill it with Florida
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  Speaker 3: tax payer dollars. But I'm paying attention now given that
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  Speaker 3: they've come out so early.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the House being busy in the first week
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  Speaker 1: with passing some bills.
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  Speaker 3: What passed, Yeah, you had, and they weren't just kind
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  Speaker 3: of minor bills. You had some pretty substantive things coming
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  Speaker 3: out of the full chamber. First off, HB one sixty
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  Speaker 3: seven governing the civil litigation protocols on phosphate mining and
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  Speaker 3: Florida is a major phosphate mining area in central Florida.
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  Speaker 3: There is a lot of a lot of policy action
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  Speaker 3: going on there. Every session. One for five was increasing
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  Speaker 3: the cap on suing governentities. They've been tackling this over
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  Speaker 3: a period of years. They passed bumping it to five
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  Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars per person and a million per incident.
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  Speaker 3: On the Senate side, Darryl Russon has it. Fiona McFarlane
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  Speaker 3: passed it out of the House two eighty nine from
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  Speaker 3: Sam Greco, allowing parents to file wrongful death civil suits
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  Speaker 3: when a fetus is killed. This is one that we
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  Speaker 3: should be paying attention to. Aaron Grahl has a companion
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  Speaker 3: and it's moving in the Senate. Six thousand and three
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  Speaker 3: from Trebalsi. This is one in particular because it was
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  Speaker 3: passed last year and the governor vetoed it. It's the
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  Speaker 3: free kill repeal. It would allow the parents of or
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  Speaker 3: the surviving parents of adult children to sue for medical negligence.
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  Speaker 3: Now the governor vetoed, claiming it would open the floodgates
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  Speaker 3: for litigation. I'm not sure that there's that much there,
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  Speaker 3: but definitely monitoring this one to see where they go
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  Speaker 3: and if they're considering potentially trying to override another veto.
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  Speaker 3: Then We've got one point thirty three from Tyler Serroy
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  Speaker 3: lowering the gun purchase back to eighteen. Senate does not
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  Speaker 3: have a companion. That's an important sign. Yeah, it is
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  Speaker 3: one from Overdoor for nursing education.
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  Speaker 2: I found this out.
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  Speaker 3: We have the lowest passing rates for nursing exams in
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  Speaker 3: the country and rep Overdoor if is kind of shifting
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  Speaker 3: the look to what are the nursing education programs in
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  Speaker 3: the state doing and what are their standards and do
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  Speaker 3: we need to have a better sense of their regulatory
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  Speaker 3: levels on the nursing education programs in the state, stricter
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  Speaker 3: oversight to get exam rates back up. You've got three
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  Speaker 3: point fifty five from Oliver minimum standards for providing pediatric
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  Speaker 3: emergency care for ers. Apparently we've gotten some instances where
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  Speaker 3: ers and some rural areas or kind of lower layer
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  Speaker 3: or lower level ers or claiming they can do pediatric
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  Speaker 3: care they do not have the right and with for it.
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  Speaker 3: So going there. And then something you've talked about for
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  Speaker 3: a while, one ninety seven from Jock ez E Verify
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  Speaker 3: for all Florida employers, regardless of size, that passed the
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  Speaker 3: full House. Jonathan Martin has a Senate companion. It's notable.
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  Speaker 3: He's a big ally of the governor. So we'll have
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  Speaker 3: to see where it goes on the Senate side. You
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  Speaker 3: did have two bills thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Two bills.
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  Speaker 3: First is two fifty from Corey Simon, the Rural Communities
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  Speaker 3: Bill that's basically the Senate President's priority, a ton of
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  Speaker 3: items for rural counties of the state. And then the
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  Speaker 3: big school choice tweak from Don Gates Senate bill. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's like three oh what did I miss?
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  Speaker 2: Three?
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  Speaker 3: Shoot, I already three eighteen. Senator Don Gates fixes to
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  Speaker 3: the school choice program to kind of increase accountability and
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  Speaker 3: transparency and make sure that dollars are following the parents.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are chronicling what's going on in the
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  Speaker 1: legislative session. SALNWZO, paying attention, taking notes. So we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about things that happened in the first week, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a busy It was a substantial first week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it was jam packed, a ton of
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  Speaker 3: committee action. Like I said, on Thursday, the full House
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  Speaker 3: passed eight bills. There were two really substantive ones out
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  Speaker 3: of the Senate that the full chamber passed. Now those
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  Speaker 3: bills will go to those other chambers and they'll kind
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  Speaker 3: of move them or not, depending on what they want
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  Speaker 3: to do. But lots of action beneath that in committees
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  Speaker 3: and in things moving, and a ton of a ton
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  Speaker 3: of stuff to chronicle.
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  Speaker 1: Is it too early to say a bill's dying?
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  Speaker 3: This is a good question. I think it depends on
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  Speaker 3: the bill. I think for something like the bill about
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  Speaker 3: eighteen year olds or lowering the gun age, the fact
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  Speaker 3: that a Senate companion does not exist yet, I would be.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you could say as an indication that that
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  Speaker 3: bill is uh maybe got a bad die and.
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  Speaker 1: It continues to be where gun legislation that is smart
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  Speaker 1: goes to.
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  Speaker 2: Die well, and you know it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: We've chronicled this for quite a while, but that would
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  Speaker 3: be the case there. Apart from that, I as long
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  Speaker 3: as you're on an agenda, you're you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 3: in poker. We used to call it a chip in
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  Speaker 3: a chair. You got a chip in a chair and
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  Speaker 3: you're good. So yeah, what's moving? What's moving? You got
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  Speaker 3: a lot some things that I thought would be important
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  Speaker 3: to mention here.
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  Speaker 2: Two thousand hj r.
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  Speaker 3: Two zero three the elimination of all non school property
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  Speaker 3: taxes for homesteaded properties. Of all of the proposals that
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  Speaker 3: the House came up with, that's the one that's started
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  Speaker 3: to move through committee there. Okay, two to eight from McLain.
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  Speaker 3: This is a Senate bill land use and impact fees.
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  Speaker 3: When we talk about affordability, this is really the tough
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  Speaker 3: work of addressing it. You got to get in the weed,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta you know, you're talking about making sure that
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  Speaker 3: locals are basing their impact fees they're permitting costs on
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  Speaker 3: something like what it actually costs to perform the function,
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  Speaker 3: rather than just arbitrarily go figure three seventy two from Trumbull.
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  Speaker 3: Also on the Senate tuition and fee waivers for state
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  Speaker 3: universities for sheriff's office employees. Yeah, six hours a month
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  Speaker 3: or six hours a semester that you can take. Three
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  Speaker 3: point fifty four also from McClain. The Blue Ribbon Projects
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  Speaker 3: piece of the Senate President's Rule Renaissance Package. This would
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  Speaker 3: create a framework kind of like for streamline development processes
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  Speaker 3: on large scale mixed use development. So trying to get
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  Speaker 3: those kicks started and make them, get them up and
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  Speaker 3: running and get supply out there. Seven to twenty from
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  Speaker 3: Osgood State tuition cannot be revoked solely on the basis
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  Speaker 3: of being jailed or in prison or being a felon.
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  Speaker 3: Notable because she's a Democrat. It's more of a social bill.
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  Speaker 3: But it is moving, it's getting some traction and committee
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  Speaker 3: and can't see you can understand why. Eight oh six
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  Speaker 3: from True Now on the Senate side, Right to Repair.
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  Speaker 3: This is the one that you've talked about. On the
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  Speaker 3: John Deere side, it also has a whole lot of
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  Speaker 3: applicability with Apple and the phones. There, it moved ten
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  Speaker 3: zero portable wireless devices and agriculture equipment, So it's tackling
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  Speaker 3: both of those. Center Bill forty eight from Gates on
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  Speaker 3: the Housing side, it would.
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  Speaker 1: Allow you can ask you on the right to repair. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: does it just cover electric devices and agriculture or is
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  Speaker 1: it one of those bills written in such way that
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  Speaker 1: it could technically expand into other areas.
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  Speaker 3: It's all going to be contingent on the definitions of
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  Speaker 3: those two terms, portable wireless devices and agriculture equipment.
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  Speaker 2: Right now.
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  Speaker 3: On the portable wireless devices, the nets pretty wide for phones, iPads, computers,
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  Speaker 3: those types of things. On the agriculture equipment, it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: cast the net on tractors, combines, those types of things.
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  Speaker 3: They can always go back and expand out definitions there,
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  Speaker 3: and they will do that on you know, on occasion
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  Speaker 3: as things go on they call them glitch bills, they'll
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  Speaker 3: fix them there, all right. Senator Gates has got SB
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  Speaker 3: forty eight. It's the housing bill also a tenno committee
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  Speaker 3: vote allowing for accessory dwelling units. Now, what this does
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  Speaker 3: is preempts local governments for saying you cannot put a
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  Speaker 3: mother in law suite out there, okay. And then three
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  Speaker 3: oh one and three seventy five from chaf and Gel Lombardo.
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  Speaker 3: These are the two bills on the Speaker's agenda to
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  Speaker 3: expand healthcare access. It expands scope for advanced practice registered
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  Speaker 3: nurses to do some additional functions as well as a
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  Speaker 3: nurse anetatists which is the hardest word in the English
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  Speaker 3: language to pronounce, one of them, so they can practice autonomously.
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  Speaker 3: Those are some things that have passed through committee in
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  Speaker 3: the first week.
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  Speaker 1: These are the parts of the segments I probably enjoy MO.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like, if you remember the old days
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  Speaker 1: of Paul Harvey.
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  Speaker 3: Just when I'm like rambling off bills, hold.
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  Speaker 1: On, hold on, hold on, Paul Harvey used to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what the news is. Now, it's time for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story. You've told us what's happening
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  Speaker 1: in the in the legislature. You told us the bills
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  Speaker 1: that are moving, what's teed up? Now I want to
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  Speaker 1: know the rest of the story. Okay, See, I see
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  Speaker 1: where I went there.
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  Speaker 2: I see what you did there. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we kind of left off talking about one of
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  Speaker 3: the bills. I kind of brushed over it from Don
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  Speaker 3: Gates on the housing side with accessory dwelling units, and
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  Speaker 3: this is really one of the things that I'm watching.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm going to point to House Built three thirteen
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  Speaker 3: from Denny Nicks. The most important distinction in legislative language,
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  Speaker 3: the difference between the words may and shall. It is
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  Speaker 3: a gulf of policy, you know. And so this is
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  Speaker 3: one of the bills that I'm watching because it would,
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  Speaker 3: as I mentioned in the last segment, it would require
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  Speaker 3: local governments to approve an increase in supply to housing units.
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  Speaker 3: That's the kind of the takeaway from this, and that
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, housing is an economic commodity.
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  Speaker 3: It is governed by the laws of supply and demand.
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  Speaker 3: When supply is low, price goes up. When you know,
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  Speaker 3: when supply is high, price as downward pressure. Allowing for
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  Speaker 3: individuals on their homes to put accessory dwelling units gives
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  Speaker 3: a lower cost alternative for individuals who might be in
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  Speaker 3: the market to either buy a town home or a
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  Speaker 3: condo or something. And when you are increasing the supply,
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  Speaker 3: you're putting downward pressure. And so this bill is something
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  Speaker 3: that I'm paying a whole lot of attention.
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  Speaker 1: To because it allows a property owner that might have
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  Speaker 1: a house to a rental unit on.
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  Speaker 3: That property, or a rental unit, a short term rental,
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  Speaker 3: a long term rental, a mother in law suite. It
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  Speaker 3: provides for a remedy where we're telling local governments, look,
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  Speaker 3: we're all in this together. We have this challenge that
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  Speaker 3: we've got to address. And when you place restrictions on
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  Speaker 3: individuals building a supply of dwelling units, I mean a home,
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  Speaker 3: a house, an apartment, whatever it is a dwelling unit.
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  Speaker 3: When you restrict that supply, you are not helping put
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  Speaker 3: downward pressure on costs.
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  Speaker 1: What does that do in h for hoas well?
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's really going to be a function of
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  Speaker 3: how that builds language, and as it moves through the process,
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  Speaker 3: it's a very good question. Do they exempt out homeowners
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  Speaker 3: associations who have a particular.
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  Speaker 2: What do you call it?
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  Speaker 3: A covenant restriction? And so we have to take a
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  Speaker 3: look through there. But as this bill moves and the
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  Speaker 3: Gates Bill moves, this is going to be one of
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  Speaker 3: those ones where it's a bell weather for how the
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  Speaker 3: state looks to address this issue.
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  Speaker 1: What else are you paying attention to a few.
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  Speaker 3: Odds and ends here thirteen to ten from Anna Maria
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  Speaker 3: Rodriguez railroad Safety. We champion Brightline because it was the
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  Speaker 3: private alternative to the high speed railed boondoggles. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of issues with deaths in South Florida. So she's putting
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  Speaker 3: forward this bill. Gille Lombardo's got six thirty five cybersecurity.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to require local governments to have a
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  Speaker 3: certain specific level of cybersecurity compliance, also with an incentive,
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  Speaker 3: so if you're abiding by those by those rules, you
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  Speaker 3: are immune from liability for breaches. Okay, here's an intriguing one.
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  Speaker 3: Thirteen eighty jocks has got it. It's a CFO initiative.
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  Speaker 3: It would prohibit commercial drivers license instruction and testing in
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  Speaker 3: any language other than English, remove illegal immigrants as covered
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  Speaker 3: employees under workers compensation rules, require companies to use Everify
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  Speaker 3: when they submit a claim on workers' comp and it
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  Speaker 3: would also require insurance companies, and this is an important
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  Speaker 3: one to accept fault if an illegal immigrant they ensure
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  Speaker 3: is involved in a car accident. This is a way
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  Speaker 3: that we've talked about the fact that grandfathered employees.
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  Speaker 2: In on e Verify.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a problem.
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  Speaker 3: This is a way that that addresses that problem without
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  Speaker 3: passing a law that forces you to apply it retroactively.
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  Speaker 1: Final segment here, this is where the creative editing on
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  Speaker 1: his notepad comes into play.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: More that you're watching.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of notes here. So yeah, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of more that I'm watching that I think are fairly
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  Speaker 3: important for Floridians. One is data centers from Brian Avola
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  Speaker 3: for eighty four. Require to ensure that the public are
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  Speaker 3: one not shielded from the information on the development of these.
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  Speaker 3: They also want to make sure that existing rate payers,
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  Speaker 3: so you and me, that we are not subject to
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  Speaker 3: increased rates because data centers are having these big buildouts
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  Speaker 3: and they're using a ton more energy and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: So some additional REGs on the PSC, the Public Service Commission.
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  Speaker 3: This is part of the Governor's AI Bill of Rights.
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  Speaker 3: But really there's one more big bill that I'll talk
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  Speaker 3: about in a moment that's more of the front facing piece.
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  Speaker 3: You've got eleven ninety seven from Miller on State IT operations,
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  Speaker 3: potentially reorganizing the Florida Digital Service again, and then nursing
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  Speaker 3: and health services workforce shortages from Davis twelve forty six.
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  Speaker 3: It would align individuals in this career in technical education
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  Speaker 3: programs in specific fields with other post secondary programs. So
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  Speaker 3: think about if you're going and taking a nursing certificate
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  Speaker 3: program or a radiology that you have the availability to
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  Speaker 3: access certain grants and things that are available only for
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  Speaker 3: post secondary program So it's innovative and I kind of
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  Speaker 3: liked it, so I'm kind of paying attention to it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what's coming up?
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  Speaker 3: What's coming up? We got a very busy week. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of the bills that I've discussed, both of the
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  Speaker 3: ones I'm monitoring as well as the ones that have
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  Speaker 3: already moved or getting into their next committee stops.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 3: House Criminal Justice has got HB seven forty three, authorizing
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the ag to investigate and provide criminal penalties for healthcare
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: practitioners that either wilthily or actively aid or a bet
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: in performing child gender mutilation. So what they try to
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: call they're all police themselves. Then that's fine. Senate version
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: is up in committee at the exact same time, so
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: both bills are moving. You've got the Senate Judiciary Committee today.
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  Speaker 3: Regulated Industries on that bill about data centers are going
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  Speaker 3: to be tackling that today Wednesday. Healthcare, you've got House
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  Speaker 3: Bill three oh one on expanding the scope of practice
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  Speaker 3: for nurses and three seventy five for the anesthesiologists. Commerce
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  Speaker 3: and Tourism four eighty two, Tom leaks AI Bill of
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  Speaker 3: Rights for the Governor. It has its first hearing there
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  Speaker 3: along with a fun one ten seventy four Rounding to
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  Speaker 3: the nearest nickel. Apparently we're not making pennies anymore.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's signs popping up in businesses all over.
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  Speaker 3: So this is just going to provide a consistent approach
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  Speaker 3: for when you round and how you round and all
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  Speaker 3: of that. Apparently we need a lot of governments, So.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me this on the U on the AI Bill
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  Speaker 1: of Rights. Yes, is there discussion on what the president's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: doing with regard to his executive order and are they
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  Speaker 1: worried about it running a foul of what's going on federally.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's definitely consideration, and so what they're having to
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  Speaker 3: do is discern an executive order does not carry the
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  Speaker 3: exact same weight of statute. Ever, there are rules and
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: regulations that govern the agencies at the federal government that
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: are that they have to follow. In the EO that
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: our bills would have to align with So they're going
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: to do a lot of that. It's going to be
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: a little bit different because it's it's it's a eo
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: versus a federal law. Okay, you've got a number of
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: other things. You've got some of the Senate appropriation subcommittees
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: that are beginning to meet. Another good sign that they're
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: going to get the budget work done or they're going
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: to try to get the budget work done on time
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: and get out in sixty days. Thursday, you'll have the
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: full chamber sessions, a few committees, but because of the
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: forty eight hour rule, not a whole lot on the
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: agendas coming out yet, but we'll see more of that tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Any word on what kind of temperature there is in
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  Speaker 1: the House and the Senate for the two special sessions
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  Speaker 1: the Governor wants to call, well, I.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Would be paying more attention to what the temperature is
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: on the Senate side as well, because you haven't seen
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: the Senate really say anything with respect to the efforts
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: on redistricting or the property tax pis. It's been very
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: sporadic and only a little bit here and there. The
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: House is the one that's moving it. I think the
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: House is trying to move something that the Senate will
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: accept and then send it to the governor, hoping to
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: avoid the special And that's why they may have ditched
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: the other proposals, because the governor was adamant that putting
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: too much on the ballot just confuses voters and nothing passes.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: It seems like the governors accepted that he might not
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: get all of what he wants done done, and that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: incremental change is better than no change.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: And then the question is what is the level at
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: which that he gets what he wants done. Where does
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: it fall into the Okay, I won't call a special
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: session for more verses. All this is not enough, Come
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: back and give me more.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Right, yep, all right, We'll see you next Monday.
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  Speaker 2: See you next Monday.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Sal Nouzo from Consumers Defense, my guest, he's the executive
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: director there, but he is our legislative guru. Here on
• 25:11
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