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Florida's Session Week Three · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: It's the third hour of the Morning Show with Preston
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  Speaker 2: Scott and Preston he is Jose and so we begin
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  Speaker 2: it's good to be with you in the month of February.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe it is groundhog Day. And of course
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get the comical forecast from Punk Satani Phil,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm sure has already happened, because the sun has
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  Speaker 2: come up, the crowd's dispersing, and six more weeks of winter,
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  Speaker 2: which means we probably won't have six more weeks of
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  Speaker 2: winter because it's wrong more than it's right. It's negative
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  Speaker 2: two degrees up there. Yeah, I thought he'd stay indoors.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Phil would even come out. I don't
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  Speaker 2: blame the dude. Yeah, anyway, we are welcome meing you
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  Speaker 2: to these third hour. I don't know quite how that
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  Speaker 2: came out that way, but anyway, Salnuzo joins us from
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  Speaker 2: Consumers Defense. And the third week is in the books
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  Speaker 2: from the executive where we at.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the third week of the sessions. In the books,
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  Speaker 1: we do not see a whole lot of interaction between
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  Speaker 1: the governor and the legislature. The Governor's out doing a
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  Speaker 1: whole host of other things right now, a big announcement
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  Speaker 1: the state is going to opt into the provisions of
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  Speaker 1: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that allow for parents
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  Speaker 1: to get an extra seventeen hundred dollars in tax credits
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  Speaker 1: if they're utilizing a school choice option. So it was
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  Speaker 1: buried in the bill. It was a provision that kind
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  Speaker 1: of puts a federal incentive into opting into school choice
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  Speaker 1: within your states. But the state has to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and we are the twenty sixth or twenty seventh state
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  Speaker 1: to announce that we're going to opt in.
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  Speaker 2: That is that smart to incentivize people leaving the school
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to, Hey, if you leave, you've got, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the money that follows you. That's enough.
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  Speaker 1: I think the point that those who put the provision
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  Speaker 1: in the bill we're thinking is that in the same
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  Speaker 1: way that you tax dollars statewide that then funnel into
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  Speaker 1: your local municipal government that then get distributed out, the
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  Speaker 1: same holds with federal tax dollars that go into the
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  Speaker 1: US Department of Education that eventually come down to the states.
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  Speaker 1: And so there is a case to be made now
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  Speaker 1: in the context of thirty eight trillion dollars in debt.
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  Speaker 1: Is this what we want to be doing? I get
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  Speaker 1: that argument, but I got to think there are far
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  Speaker 1: bigger fish to fry in this in that realm than
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  Speaker 1: this considering it's a tax credit that goes to families
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  Speaker 1: who were using a school choice option.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what's next?
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  Speaker 1: A report got issued and it didn't get a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of fanfare, but I did find it. It's from
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  Speaker 1: the Governor's DOZE office outlining in detail more than a
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  Speaker 1: dozen municipal governments that have just been on this insane
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  Speaker 1: spending binge.
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  Speaker 2: Now remind listeners who may not know DOGE what is that?
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  Speaker 1: The Department of Operational and Governmental Efficiency. And it was
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  Speaker 1: mirrored after the federal effort that Elon Musk took on
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  Speaker 1: the state, and a number of states kind of enacted
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  Speaker 1: their own offices. This is different than what the CFO
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  Speaker 1: is doing. This is out of the Governor's office, but
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  Speaker 1: they issued a report that kind of compliments what the
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  Speaker 1: CFO is doing on that front. And then this other
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  Speaker 1: note that I had in my head about the recreational
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  Speaker 1: marijuana petition because the deadline was yesterday and there was
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  Speaker 1: an announcement that they were likely going to investigate an
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  Speaker 1: additional batch of petitions signatures in Broward County. But then
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  Speaker 1: this morning, just this morning, was an announcement that all
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  Speaker 1: twenty two of the constitutional provisions that were being gathering
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  Speaker 1: signatures none of them met the threshold, and so none
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  Speaker 1: are going to appear on the ballot. This is intriguing
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  Speaker 1: to me because I did not remember it happening this
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  Speaker 1: early in past cycles. And sure enough, it does look
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  Speaker 1: like smart say Florida truly, whoever's behind them are going
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  Speaker 1: to sue because there is a batch of signatures that's left.
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  Speaker 1: They're about one hundred thousand short of the eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and some thousand more to come on this. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as the state is concerned, there will not be
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  Speaker 1: a recreational marijuana initiative on the ballot.
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  Speaker 2: What's interesting to me is, and I think you and
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  Speaker 2: I have talked about it at least at some point
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  Speaker 2: or another, I did not observe them following the law
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  Speaker 2: and collecting signatures on more than three occasions.
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  Speaker 1: And to that, about two weeks ago there was a
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  Speaker 1: challenge to about twenty or thirty thousand of those petition signatures.
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  Speaker 1: Now and it was in Broward a judge tossed about
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand of them if I remember correctly. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: still a much bigger gap. They've got one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: to make up. But to your point, they are actively
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  Speaker 1: pursuing those where they do have credible and hard evidence
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  Speaker 1: that they can go after them and get them tossed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Here in Leon County, I watched three to four
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  Speaker 2: different occasions where they were collecting signature and we're not
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  Speaker 2: asking for a driver's license or the last four of
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  Speaker 2: a social security numbers.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's definitely a problem they are on it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a question of where they can actually
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  Speaker 1: get enough hard evidence to go after and file the
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  Speaker 1: challenge that actually results in them getting tossed.
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  Speaker 2: Can't they just look at the signature and see if
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  Speaker 2: it's got the information that's attached to it and if
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  Speaker 2: it matches.
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  Speaker 1: I think, well, there was a provision passed in one
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  Speaker 1: of the prior packages a couple of years back that
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  Speaker 1: dealt with wet signatures versus matching, and I have to
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  Speaker 1: go back and look to see what the specifics are there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we've touched on the executive, What about the legislative?
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  Speaker 2: What happened last week?
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  Speaker 1: First, off. I think it's important to acknowledge the Senate
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  Speaker 1: president out a couple of days in the er and
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a scare. Found a blood clot in
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  Speaker 1: his lung and apparently he has a history of them.
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  Speaker 1: A discovered a potential heart issue. They went through some
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  Speaker 1: testsed TMA. They sent him over to Shan's and then
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  Speaker 1: back home. He was out of commission for a few days.
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  Speaker 1: Reports are and he has issued a public statement. He
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  Speaker 1: is cleared. He is going to be back in the saddle.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all all thanks to you know above for
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  Speaker 1: speedy recovery and everything going on there. So best wishes
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  Speaker 1: to President Albritton there. As you mentioned February meet of
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  Speaker 1: the Session, I kind of mentioned last week kind of
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  Speaker 1: analogizing this to a horse race. We're now out of
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  Speaker 1: turn two. We're heading toward that like big back straight away.
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  Speaker 1: I think probably this week, in the next two maybe
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  Speaker 1: three mondays, we're going to see this laundry list of
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  Speaker 1: bills moving things are moving forward, some stuff's falling back.
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  Speaker 1: What's coming up out of the rear of the pack.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see some surprises and so we're in
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  Speaker 1: that fun time.
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  Speaker 2: What determines whether it's something that's not really getting much
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  Speaker 2: attention suddenly finds a place.
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  Speaker 1: Could be a whole host of things. It could be
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  Speaker 1: a specific incident in the public sphere that brings something
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  Speaker 1: more to light. It could very well be some quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote strategory between chambers where they hold back on one
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  Speaker 1: bill because they know it might be a priority of
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  Speaker 1: the other chamber, and then they'll move it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit to try and signal something and get something out
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  Speaker 1: of the other chamber. It could be anything along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: It could be that the choreography is such where they
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  Speaker 1: did not want to move a particular bill until mid
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  Speaker 1: session because they wanted to line up other things number
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  Speaker 1: of different reasons.
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  Speaker 2: What's past A couple of.
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  Speaker 1: Things in particular that I thought were worth mentioning, both
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  Speaker 1: out of the Senate. One is one p. Fifty six
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  Speaker 1: from Tom Leak, the Officer Reyner Act. The Senate passed
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  Speaker 1: it last year. It got tied up in the chamber
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  Speaker 1: between the drama and everything that was going on. It
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  Speaker 1: increases the sentencing levels for tougher penalties on violent acts
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  Speaker 1: against officers, and it also expands a definition who qualifies
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  Speaker 1: as a protected officer. So now it would be correctional
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  Speaker 1: lot officers, probation auxiliary officers, raises the offensi verity for crimes.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean this is really a pro public safety measure, sure,
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  Speaker 1: Senate Bill two ninety six from Lori Burman, Democrat. But
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  Speaker 1: it's moving, and that'll happen a lot in the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: I'm paying attention to see if it moves in the
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  Speaker 1: house dating and domestic violence. What it's doing is tying
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  Speaker 1: them closer together. What I didn't realize, but it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Dating violence is not categorized or defined the same as
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence because you're not married. So what the definition
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  Speaker 1: will do is tie it to domestic violence if you're
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  Speaker 1: living in the same home. It creates potentially or it
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  Speaker 1: will potentially go down the road of creating a separate
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  Speaker 1: nine one one style alert system specifically for domestic or
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  Speaker 1: dating violence. And it would allow individuals who are the
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  Speaker 1: victims of dating violence the same identity protections that domestic
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  Speaker 1: violence victims get.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that strikes me as something similar to hate crimes.
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  Speaker 2: It's a crime we don't need to It's like domestic
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  Speaker 2: or dating. It doesn't matter. It's it's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in the bill, I think it does that. In
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  Speaker 1: the bill, it says, look, we've been treating dating violence differently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like okay, good, well, so we're going to define
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  Speaker 1: it like domestic violence if you're in the scene. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: so it kind of evens the field for that. But
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  Speaker 1: is it even should it even be limited to in
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  Speaker 1: the same home. Let me look at the bill and
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  Speaker 1: see it is possible that it expands it out further
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  Speaker 1: than that. I read and I saw that the piece
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  Speaker 1: of mind in the same home. I am certain if
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  Speaker 1: there is someone out there that knows, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: get a text momentarily and we can clarify that.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what's passed. We're going to talk about what's
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  Speaker 2: moving next. Back with Salnuzoh. He's the executive director of
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  Speaker 2: Consumer's Defense. So we're talking about what's passed. Now, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about what moving.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, once moving, And the answer, the short answer is
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  Speaker 1: an absolute ton. I think last week we teed up
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  Speaker 1: like marathon days of committee hearings, and they came to
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  Speaker 1: they came to move. But first there's some fireworks that
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to monitor. And this was last week. The
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  Speaker 1: big ag agency bill, they call it the Farm Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Every agency puts forward one the Department of Agricultures one
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  Speaker 1: is arguably one of the biggest, if not the biggest.
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  Speaker 1: It was up before the Rules Committee in its final
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  Speaker 1: stop before the full Senate. I'm not sure what specifically
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  Speaker 1: was behind all of this, but the committee chair, Senator
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  Speaker 1: Kathleen Pasadoma, who was the Senate president before the current one,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Albritton, temporarily postponed the bill. Now that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: So this prompted then the Agriculture Commissioner, who was the
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  Speaker 1: Senate president right before Kathleen Pasadoma, he publicly called it
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  Speaker 1: out and it was a he said, it was a
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  Speaker 1: personal swipe. He tried to tie the tactics to the
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  Speaker 1: ag commissioner before him, who is Nicky Freed. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's underlying some of this. There was some
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  Speaker 1: talk about specific provisions and protecting farmers that were they
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  Speaker 1: were uncomfortable with. But I'm beginning to pay a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more attention to this one.
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  Speaker 2: There might be more to the internal drama than maybe
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  Speaker 2: we thought.
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  Speaker 1: I think we could take the words might be out
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so there's drama here. There's drama, and it
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  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the validity of the bill.
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  Speaker 2: It's just personal nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's the thing. There could be some
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  Speaker 1: disagreement on a particular provision that's kind of bubbled up.
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  Speaker 2: And they're using that perhaps as the lever potentially.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, few others eleven seventy eight wide raging bill going
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  Speaker 1: after foreign influence, and we've talked about this in prior shows.
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  Speaker 1: It does a lot. It tightens up the rules on
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  Speaker 1: political activity tied to foreign governments, registration requirements for foreign
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  Speaker 1: supported organizations, some additional ethics training. A piece of the
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  Speaker 1: bill I'm paying a lot of attention to in the
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  Speaker 1: contracting section. It's buried. It would prohibit state and local
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  Speaker 1: governments from entering into or renewing it contracts with companies
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  Speaker 1: that are owned or partially owned by countries that are
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  Speaker 1: listed on the Foreign Countries of Concern China, Venezuela, Cuba,
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  Speaker 1: all of those. And this is one where a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the technology that we've got is tied into a
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  Speaker 1: CCP owned Huawei.
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  Speaker 2: Or one of these persons. Yeah, and this I.
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  Speaker 1: Am checking this out because one, I do like the
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  Speaker 1: provisions because we need to get at this. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: curious as to how this unfolds.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, this really intersects not just
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  Speaker 2: with your paying attention what's going on in Florida, but
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  Speaker 2: with your work with consumers Defense.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely everything on that we work on protecting consumers from
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  Speaker 1: foreign interference by the CCP or other bad foreign actors.
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  Speaker 1: If you think about just the routers and the modems
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  Speaker 1: that are being used by state agencies, all of these
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  Speaker 1: are up in the air.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what about the anti DEI in public d.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, from Data TRABALCI ten seventy one would prohibit school
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  Speaker 1: districts from using state or federal funds to support DEI
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  Speaker 1: programs or political or social activism. Now, student led groups
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  Speaker 1: would not be affected. There are a ton of provisions
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  Speaker 1: related and that kind of drew a lot of opposition.
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  Speaker 1: One thing in particular that they're kind of pinpointing here
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  Speaker 1: is requiring sex said to include detailed lessons on human
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  Speaker 1: embryo fetal development, those kinds of things. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: think what we're gonna talk through as we get on
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  Speaker 1: in shows is how the committee process shapes these types
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  Speaker 1: of bills as we go through. Okay, four point thirty
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  Speaker 1: four from leak Ensuring homeowners aren't punished for win mitigation.
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  Speaker 1: That one's starting to move. So if you make an
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  Speaker 1: improvement to your home, the property assessor can't add that
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  Speaker 1: value onto your taxable value. Seven five seven from Saltsman.
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  Speaker 1: Now this one flew even under my radar. Would expand
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  Speaker 1: the Guardian program to universities. It passed the House Judiciary
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  Speaker 1: Committee unanimously. Now this would allow trained university staff to
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  Speaker 1: carry firearms if they have a concealed permit. Still not enough,
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  Speaker 1: I get that steps along the way. Now, Senate companion
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  Speaker 1: is referenced no agenda so far seventeen fifty six from Yarborough.
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  Speaker 1: This one is gonna be contentions where prohibit state health
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  Speaker 1: officers from mandating vaccines during public health emergencies. But it
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  Speaker 1: also expands religious and conscious based exemptions for school entries.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not banning vaccines, it's allowing for greater use
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  Speaker 1: of religious exemptions to parents who do not want their
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  Speaker 1: kids to receive them, but still want them to attend
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  Speaker 1: public schools.
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  Speaker 2: And we are back four pages of notes from Salnuzoh.
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  Speaker 2: I thought to myself, he's emboldened by last week's performance.
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  Speaker 1: Go, you know it's funny because I came away from
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  Speaker 1: that last week going, I just I can't do call
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  Speaker 1: in anymore. I just got I gotta be in studio
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  Speaker 1: because yeah, but you did it. Yeah, we did it.
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  Speaker 1: We made it through, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So what else is moving? We're talking about the legislative session?
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  Speaker 2: What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: A ton thirteen thirty two from Jonathan Martin require people
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  Speaker 1: designated as career offenders with violent felonies to register in
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  Speaker 1: person with the local sheriff's office with a designation on
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  Speaker 1: their driver's license. And there's a very specific definition for
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  Speaker 1: how many felonies and the type of violent felonies. So
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  Speaker 1: similar to this sexual offender registry.
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised at passed unanimously? Yes, Yeah, very much so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I am too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it just says it's common sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in which case I'm I'm not giving some people
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  Speaker 1: enough credit for what they do. And that's on me.
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  Speaker 2: Ok.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nine to eighty from Alexis KALATATEUD Regulations on vaping
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  Speaker 1: on non federally authorized e cigarettes and nicotine vapes looking
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  Speaker 1: to protect miners, advertising promotion, displaying regulations and stores to
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  Speaker 1: keep miners away from the bad stuff. Good luck eighty
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  Speaker 1: six from Don Gates. Steep penalties for trucking companies and
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  Speaker 1: drivers to prevent undocumented immigrants from operating commercial motor vehicles
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  Speaker 1: in Florida. This is a direct result of what happened
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  Speaker 1: here around the turnpike. Yeah, last year finds up to
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars per enough, but they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: levied on the companies. So this is a method where
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  Speaker 1: a bill that's designed to get companies to start self polizing.
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  Speaker 1: Two forty three from Bene Roche. I mentioned this last week.
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  Speaker 1: It's moving e bike regulations. It's sailing through committee unanimously.
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  Speaker 1: The Senate companion is moving as well. Ninety three from
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rodondo. Pay attention to MICRODNDO, who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: Speaker of the House after Jennifer Kennedy in twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years or however long they line them up. Medicaid work requirements,
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  Speaker 1: the snap reforms. They need to get the AIRR rate
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  Speaker 1: down to below six percent or we get a big
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  Speaker 1: fine from the Feds. I did find out we have
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  Speaker 1: an extra year because our ERRA rate is above thirteen percent.
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  Speaker 1: We have one extra year to get it in line. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: fourteen seventy one from Hillary Cassell a statewide domestic terrorism
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  Speaker 1: list something and this is a surprise for me, for me,
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  Speaker 1: something not even the federal government has at present a database.
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  Speaker 1: They rely on groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of other nonprofits that they should do that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven ninety six from Ralph Mizzoulo News Senator had been
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  Speaker 1: in the House recognizing Judea in Samaria officially instead of
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  Speaker 1: the West Bank and Gaza. The House committees through and
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  Speaker 1: it's ready for the House floor. This is a example
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  Speaker 1: of what I would call a statement bill. They're trying
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  Speaker 1: to project a statement that we are not aligned with
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  Speaker 1: all of the violence is being put on Israel. Nine
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  Speaker 1: five from Danny Alvarez creation of a state level counter
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  Speaker 1: terrorism unit with an FDL. Senator Jonathan Martin's got the
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  Speaker 1: companion I'm waiting to see. I think this has got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to move one thirty two Democrat bills on
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  Speaker 1: tightening up the transparency on ex offenders seeking to get
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  Speaker 1: their voting rights restored seven eight and one thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: or the two bills they are moving, and if they're
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  Speaker 1: moving in the Senate, I think this may be one
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  Speaker 1: where they horse trade to get something else through.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any talk of just overhauling the whole clemency
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  Speaker 2: process and the restoration of rights process.
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  Speaker 1: I have not heard any discussion on it, although I
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  Speaker 1: think if an administration or a cabinet together were to
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  Speaker 1: come and decide to do that, it would absolutely be
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  Speaker 1: a worthwhile adventure. I agree with you. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is something where we're hitting at the margins when we
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  Speaker 1: should be looking wholesale at the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just too big of a process for a
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  Speaker 2: handful of people to organize and legislate.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely my list. As you would know, we did
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  Speaker 1: not even get to the majority. Like there's a ton more.
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  Speaker 1: They're just kind of we're hitting as much as we
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  Speaker 1: can in the timeframe allotted. One other one that I
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  Speaker 1: think is worth mentioning before we go into some other stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and that's eleven nineteen from Banks, and it would expand
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  Speaker 1: out the types of instructural materials defined as harmful to
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  Speaker 1: minors and which need to be removed from classroom instructions.
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  Speaker 1: It's through its last committee, the Senate companion has not
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  Speaker 1: made it to a first stop, and I think procedurally
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  Speaker 1: this is something we can unpack if this bill continues
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  Speaker 1: to move. But it's definitely one that groups and organizations.
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  Speaker 1: And we've highlighted this in prior years, how the legislature's
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  Speaker 1: taken an active role in what is distributed to kids
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  Speaker 1: in the classroom.
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  Speaker 2: What are the bills that you are particularly watching.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I pay attention to some which I think
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  Speaker 1: are very important, and then others that I just think
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  Speaker 1: are like wow, or really fun or something along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: One that I think is kind of fun because it
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  Speaker 1: allows us to unpack the future. Ten thirty eight from
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  Speaker 1: Joe Gruder's the Florida Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve Authorizing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: actually dictating we have to do this, but it authorizes
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  Speaker 1: the creation of a reserve for the state to invest
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  Speaker 1: in cryptocurrencies. I know, I know you're an old fid
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  Speaker 1: I know you're an old stode And yeah, exactly, get
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  Speaker 1: the kids off your lawn, Dissilver. This is actually a direction.
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  Speaker 1: I am glad to see the state actually moving into
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  Speaker 1: taking away money.
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  Speaker 2: It away. We're burning it. Why don't you just take
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  Speaker 2: a blowcharge to it, set it a blaze.
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  Speaker 1: You you put money under your mattress, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'll put it in the safe.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Another one eight forty one from Tom Fabrizio. I
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  Speaker 1: love him because he he will take on these and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, yes, thank you. Doing away with the yellow
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  Speaker 1: sticker on license plates. We have methods to determine if
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  Speaker 1: your registration is active. It's called the World Wide Web.
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  Speaker 1: Officers have it in their laptops, on their in their cars.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy. This one's passing unanimous. I expect this one
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  Speaker 1: just as ol.
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  Speaker 2: So what do we do at the corner of that
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  Speaker 2: license plate? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you want?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, smiley face yellows.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly all right. Two twenty one from Ryan Chamberlain. This
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  Speaker 1: is a revisit of a bill that was filed last
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  Speaker 1: year to establish a training wage. It would be below
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  Speaker 1: the state's minimum wage. I mentioned it because it's gaining
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  Speaker 1: some steam in House. I actually like this bill, but
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  Speaker 1: I do share the concern of the Senate President, and
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  Speaker 1: he's publicly said he questions the constitutionality of the bill
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  Speaker 1: because the constitutional ballot initiative passed and there is no
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  Speaker 1: there is no ability to think otherwise. So his position
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  Speaker 1: is I may even agree with the end result, but
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  Speaker 1: it needs to be put before the voters because otherwise
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  Speaker 1: it's going to get litigated and tossed out. Ye. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it would, but I do share his concern.
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  Speaker 1: Another one from Senate bill from Kristen Errington, Senate Bill
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight one year requirement for party affiliation. Now this
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  Speaker 1: gets at we've had some instances where individuals have flipped
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  Speaker 1: parties afterward it gets a candidates currently running. The reason
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  Speaker 1: I'm paying attention to this is I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: it tackles what we have seen, which is people flipping
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  Speaker 1: post election. The provision is you have to in the
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  Speaker 1: bill would be you have to be a member of
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  Speaker 1: the party in good standing for like three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty four days or more than that, so one year.
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  Speaker 1: The next election for anybody who flips would be more
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  Speaker 1: than one year. So I'm paying attention. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: an important bill that we've got to decipher a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more.
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  Speaker 2: What's coming up? We got a minute left.
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  Speaker 1: All right light for the House today. They pick up
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow with a lot of action on many of the
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  Speaker 1: bills we just discussed, as well as some that were
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  Speaker 1: in prior weeks. They have a full chamber session on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The Senate, they're getting right to it today. A few
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  Speaker 1: notes in Health Policy Senate Bill seventeen fifty eight. This
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: is the companion bill to the one we mentioned about
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  Speaker 1: reforming Medicaid to align it with new law. It's up
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  Speaker 1: for the first stop one that is up. I could
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  Speaker 1: have mentioned this a moment ago, and what I'm paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to ten ninety three aimed at establishing a framework
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  Speaker 1: forget this. Vertiports be the word not of this year,
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  Speaker 1: but of next year. Straight out of the Jetsons. It's
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: an uber taxi, but it's not a car. It's a
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  Speaker 1: human transport drone. If you think this is sci fi,
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  Speaker 1: I actually saw a demonstration of it about two years
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  Speaker 1: ago from.
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  Speaker 2: I put videos on my blog page on this stuff
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  Speaker 2: all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So we would be the first state to establish this.
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  Speaker 1: And then a bunch of healthcare bills in the House
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  Speaker 1: are added to the full chamber roster for Wednesday. Cursive
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  Speaker 1: writing added to the full Chamber to establish that as
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a requirement. And then some other things like the housing
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: bill and some stuff on insurance are up up for
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  Speaker 1: full votes.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait. It's going to be interesting session to see
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  Speaker 2: what makes it.
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  Speaker 1: It's turning out a lot different than I anticipated thus far. Now,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: we've got a long ways to go.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, but I'm so far the drama has been very minimal,
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  Speaker 2: almost none, almost none, and it hasn't been from the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: parties that we've seen in the past.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll have to see how it turns out. Sal
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, always a pleasure.
• 25:03
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