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

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  Speaker 1: Mort of friends. It is the third hour of the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Great to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Show fifty three thirty two, that is Jose, I'm Preston
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  Speaker 1: and joining us as sal Newzo with Consumers Defense.
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  Speaker 2: We have no time to waste.
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  Speaker 1: The governor teed it up last week with the state
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  Speaker 1: of the State, and then the.
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  Speaker 3: Replies, Yeah, so you had the governor delivering the state
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  Speaker 3: of the state to the joint Session. Just prior to that,
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  Speaker 3: you had the Speaker and the Senate President giving their
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  Speaker 3: own intros and kind of starter a session addresses, and
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  Speaker 3: we can kind of unpack those a little bit. But
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  Speaker 3: I thought it'd probably be a bit valuable to spend
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of time kind of unpacking the governor
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  Speaker 3: speaks and contrasting it to some of the things that
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  Speaker 3: were contained, particularly in the in the House Speaker. So
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  Speaker 3: when the governor, you had about thirty minutes, good amount
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  Speaker 3: of red meat, a lot of the rundown of successes.
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  Speaker 3: He spent some time kind of unpacking and tracking where
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  Speaker 3: his prior policies stood in positioning Florida. He did discuss
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  Speaker 3: the special session, but he did not mention any of
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  Speaker 3: the drama he played it very close, talked about coming together. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: very much so, which if that was all you were
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  Speaker 3: paying attention to the state of the state, you would
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  Speaker 3: have thought, all right, that you know, and kind of
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  Speaker 3: moved on. There was absolutely no mention of kind of
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  Speaker 3: the dust up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He highlighted our number one rankings on business development and climate.
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  Speaker 3: The economics piece a little bit of a of a
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  Speaker 3: shout out and shade thrown at Canada on the boycott
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  Speaker 3: about Stanley Cup winning hockey team.
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  Speaker 2: He did mention.
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  Speaker 3: Insurance and this is important because it's going to tee
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  Speaker 3: up some of the things we discussed in a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: auto rates scheduled to come down. We have had some
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  Speaker 3: challenges there, although it's not as been it has not
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  Speaker 3: been as pronounced as the issues we've had on when
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  Speaker 3: you say scheduled by who, you kind of see some
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  Speaker 3: forecasting from the industry and where rates are stabilizing and
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  Speaker 3: things along those lines. But he did mention eleven new
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  Speaker 3: property insurance companies have kind of opened up shop in
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  Speaker 3: the state in the last year, and that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be important when you compare this to some of the
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  Speaker 3: remarks from Speaker Perez. He did mention. He wants more funding,
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  Speaker 3: more money in the mice, say Florida waiting list for
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  Speaker 3: people who are already approved but are waiting on those grants,
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  Speaker 3: so that they can perform some of the improvements and
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  Speaker 3: renovations to kind of storm harden their homes. On the
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  Speaker 3: fiscal side, I said, you know, they're spending less in
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  Speaker 3: the current fiscal year than they were in the prior
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  Speaker 3: and Andie championed this kind of the small size of
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  Speaker 3: state government's workforce. You mentioned this in a prior segment.
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  Speaker 3: We are the lowest per capita in the United States
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  Speaker 3: when you look at the number of state government employees
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  Speaker 3: per capita. We have a lean and mean operation. And
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  Speaker 3: yet he's still focusing on where is the waste, Where
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  Speaker 3: can we cut a little bit further, because ultimately, any
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  Speaker 3: government spending is something that is kind of butting up
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  Speaker 3: against economic activity. On the tax front, this is huge.
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  Speaker 3: He wants the business rent tax completely gone. It was
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  Speaker 3: scheduled to glide path over several years, and there are
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  Speaker 3: proposals that would either increase the homestead property exemption or
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  Speaker 3: eliminate property taxes in their entirety, which is his preferred approach.
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  Speaker 3: He's pointed out something that you said.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years.
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  Speaker 3: If you own a home, you're basically, as he put it,
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  Speaker 3: renting it from the government, because if you do not
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  Speaker 3: pay property taxes, they will put a lien on your home.
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  Speaker 3: There are some proposals out there to kind of figure
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  Speaker 3: out how they can go about that with how you
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  Speaker 3: find local government, yeah, and how you do that without
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  Speaker 3: raising the sales tax rate, which is kind of what
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  Speaker 3: the left is trying to come at them with on that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, championed the K.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve policies as well as their further work in eliminating
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  Speaker 3: DEI not just in the higher ed space, but in
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  Speaker 3: a few others. I gave Casey a shout out for
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  Speaker 3: the Hope Florida program, which, knowing where the dynamic is
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  Speaker 3: going in terms of the governor's race, we'll have to
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  Speaker 3: see how that folds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've talked about that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's I don't think the first Lady
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  Speaker 1: and the governor have been told the truth of what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the inner workings of Hope.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I know there had been some challenges in the past,
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  Speaker 3: and in fairness, I have not paid a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: of attention to it as it's unfolded. In the last
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  Speaker 3: several months, he's talked about getting a block grant for
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  Speaker 3: environmental spending from the FEDS to help pick up the
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  Speaker 3: pace on what's going on in the state with respect
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  Speaker 3: to the Everglades or the ee A reservoir, Conda regulations,
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  Speaker 3: gun rights, a whole host of things. Any he closed
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  Speaker 3: it with the man in the Arena, which yeah, he
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  Speaker 3: went Teddy Roosevelt on yeah, which is one of my
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  Speaker 3: favorite quotes of all time from a political figure. And
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  Speaker 3: so even if it was a quasi socialist, even if,
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  Speaker 3: but I do love the quote. Nonetheless, so Speaker Danny
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  Speaker 3: pereesk yees. So he preceded all of this. Yes, So
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  Speaker 3: prior to the governor, do.
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  Speaker 1: You have a copy of the remarks the governor was
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  Speaker 1: going to make?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a great question. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's entirely possible, and I wouldn't be shocked at all.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, But I do want to juxtapose what
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  Speaker 3: the governor said about insurance and the need to if
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  Speaker 3: you read between the lines, the need to read the
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  Speaker 3: market and understand that what they did in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: three helped stabilize the market. We're beginning to see improvements,
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  Speaker 3: and yes, is it slower than we want. Absolutely, we
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  Speaker 3: want more relief. But at the same time, we've done
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  Speaker 3: the right thing. Now here's what the speaker said, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to quote it. The insurance matters to the
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  Speaker 3: people of Florida. A couple of years ago, the insurance
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  Speaker 3: industry came to the legislature and said without sweeping reforms,
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  Speaker 3: companies could not compete. We've since learned of reports in
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  Speaker 3: existence at the time but not disclosed to the legislature
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  Speaker 3: that may suggest some insurance companies we're using accounting tricks
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  Speaker 3: to hide substantial profits while telling us they were in
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  Speaker 3: a crisis. I've asked the Insurance and Banking Subcommittee to
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  Speaker 3: conduct hearings, and they will have access to the full
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  Speaker 3: range of tools, including issuing subpoenas, putting witnesses under oath,
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  Speaker 3: and hiring outside experts. That is something that I have
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  Speaker 3: not heard from a chamber, especially a chamber presiding officer,
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  Speaker 3: and I can't remember if at all. It is a
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  Speaker 3: shot across the bow at insurance companies, and it contrasts
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  Speaker 3: to the philosophy that I think you see coming out
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  Speaker 3: of the Governor's office, out of the Office of Insurance Regulation,
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  Speaker 3: and quite frankly, even some folks on the Senate side
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  Speaker 3: that I have spoken to who are well placed in
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  Speaker 3: the industry, who say, look, it's not perfect, but it
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  Speaker 3: is on the right track. And if you upset this
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  Speaker 3: kind of track, you have the capacity to do a
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  Speaker 3: whole lot more damage and throw the arena or industry
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  Speaker 3: into another cycle of really bad things.
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  Speaker 1: Well, doesn't it boil down to you cannot force someone
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  Speaker 1: to do business.
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  Speaker 3: Here exactly now if and we'll get to when we
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  Speaker 3: unpack some of the legislation that's moving and how it's
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  Speaker 3: moving and the posture, but the market matters, and ultimately
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  Speaker 3: you want a functioning marketplace that's private industry ensuring property owners.
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  Speaker 3: Now that is going to involve some you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of transition pains, but it's on the right track, as
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  Speaker 3: the Governor, and I would suggest many in the Senate
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  Speaker 3: or suggesting, and there are somewhere they're just gonna they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna want to train their fire on and someone some industry.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think this is one where as the
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  Speaker 3: session unfolds and unpacks, it's going to be one to
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  Speaker 3: pay a whole lot of attention to because it matters
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  Speaker 3: to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: The Speaker also drew distinctions between how he's conducting things
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  Speaker 1: and previous speakers in that there's no House Bill number
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  Speaker 1: one and number two and so forth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the point that he was making, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be very intrigued to see how it actually
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  Speaker 3: plays out over the sixty days or fifty five days,
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  Speaker 3: whatever we've got left, is that he wants the committee
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  Speaker 3: structure to function in a way that is devoid of leadership,
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  Speaker 3: hard tactics. He doesn't want a series of priority bills
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  Speaker 3: that are kind of from the House Speaker that they're
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  Speaker 3: going to tee up and move quickly and get onto
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  Speaker 3: the governor. He also stressed the difference between what he
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  Speaker 3: viewed as maybe an acquiescence to the governor's agenda by
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  Speaker 3: prior speakers over the last four or six years and
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  Speaker 3: where they would just kind of ram through whatever the
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  Speaker 3: governor wanted, and he wanted to assert their kind of
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  Speaker 3: coequalness as a branch of government. Again, as legislation moves,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be very intriguing to see the posture
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  Speaker 3: that he takes where he may disagree with the governor
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  Speaker 3: or the other chamber, and that's going to be the
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  Speaker 3: dynamic to pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: To what's gain speed early on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it'd be helpful for us to unpack
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  Speaker 3: the insurance bills that have been kind of in various
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  Speaker 3: stages of movement, because there's a number of them and
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  Speaker 3: because they impact everybody in the state, and both both
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  Speaker 3: the chambers and the governor have highlighted them.
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  Speaker 1: Are they picking up where they left off? Are they
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  Speaker 1: continuing the path that you know, Governor Desanas said was
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  Speaker 1: gaining us some results, or is this new direction.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit of the former.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit of picking up where they left off,
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  Speaker 3: picking up some sticks that they had dropped and maybe
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  Speaker 3: want to send back over. So, first off, you have
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  Speaker 3: Hillary Cassel. She had a large, large bill that would
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  Speaker 3: have allowed citizens Property Insurance Court to offer windstorm only
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  Speaker 3: coverage for anyone in the states. So where we have
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  Speaker 3: seen the windstorm piece of property insurance be one of
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  Speaker 3: the big problems. It was workshopped prior to the session.
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  Speaker 3: It looked like the math just wasn't going to work
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  Speaker 3: on it, so they withdrew that bill, and it looks
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  Speaker 3: like they may allocate some money to study it further.
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  Speaker 3: But this kind of points to the dilemma that I
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  Speaker 3: spoke about in the prior segment. So you've got this
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  Speaker 3: challenge that really boils down to different political philosophies, even
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  Speaker 3: within Republicans, on how we should treat the insurance market.
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  Speaker 3: So would offering windstorm coverage by citizens potentially lower rates
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  Speaker 3: in the short term, Yes, there's a case to be
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  Speaker 3: made for that, but you have to ask the follow
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  Speaker 3: up question, what does that do to the overall insurance
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  Speaker 3: market in the state. Well, if you're a private insurer
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  Speaker 3: and you have a state run provider that's offering lower
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  Speaker 3: rates than you can offer, and you can't stay solvent
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  Speaker 3: offering those rates, what are you going to do? You're
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  Speaker 3: likely going to exit the market, and that's going to
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  Speaker 3: put us back in a bad place.
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  Speaker 1: Does that is that offering lower rates on just that
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  Speaker 1: portion wind? Or is it all it's.
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  Speaker 3: Just that portion wind? But you've got to recognize that
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  Speaker 3: they're putting those things into their entire business plan.
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  Speaker 1: And so if but if they're indemnified by not offering
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  Speaker 1: wind and they don't have to offer it, and someone
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  Speaker 1: else is taking that and they're covering the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't that help you?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that the math is working in that
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  Speaker 3: respect when it comes to private markets and what they
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  Speaker 3: charge for you know, kind of the non windstorm part
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  Speaker 3: of the property insurance premium versus that it kind of
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  Speaker 3: it puts the market into further turmoil, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: a it's a challenge that is going to continue to
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  Speaker 3: rear its head as long as we're in this kind
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  Speaker 3: of debate back and forth. Another one, but on the
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  Speaker 3: auto insurance side. So for a number of years we've
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  Speaker 3: had this attempt to repeal our no fault auto system.
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  Speaker 3: The governor did veto the measure that passed a session
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  Speaker 3: or two back that would have repealed it. This year,
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  Speaker 3: you've got a bill from Senator Aaron Grahl and Representative
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  Speaker 3: Danny Alvarez twelve fifty six and eleven eighty one. It
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  Speaker 3: would eliminate the requirement for drivers to carry PIP personal
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  Speaker 3: injury protection, but instead require them to carry twenty five
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  Speaker 3: thousand in bodily injury coverage for one and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 3: for two or more per and some property liability PIPS.
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  Speaker 3: The coverage that kicks in regardless of who's at fault
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  Speaker 3: at an accident. So because of the no fault law,
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  Speaker 3: you cannot sue someone for pain and suffering what they
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  Speaker 3: call non economic damages. Now, the trial attorneys would love
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  Speaker 3: to have that repealed because they could then flood the
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  Speaker 3: market with pain and suffering lawsuits. We need to probably
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  Speaker 3: see another couple of years of data on premiums before
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  Speaker 3: considering another big change. The governor opposes anything that would
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  Speaker 3: not reduce rates or at least keep the rates on
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  Speaker 3: the same track that they're at. And as it stands
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  Speaker 3: as I read that bill, the repeal would raise rates
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  Speaker 3: unless it's paired with some other tort reform measures that
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  Speaker 3: would kind of stem that lawsuit potential. One last in
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  Speaker 3: the insurance bucket, and then we'll move on medical malpractice.
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  Speaker 3: It's one I've been paying attention to because it goes
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  Speaker 3: the other way from previous years. Now in the Senate,
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  Speaker 3: you've got a couple of proposals as well as the House,
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  Speaker 3: that would actually expand the cases in which patients or
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  Speaker 3: survivors could successfully sue for medmol now kind of stemming
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  Speaker 3: it out to adults in their and parents of adult children.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the rub. We have the second highest med male
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  Speaker 3: premiums in the US. We have a shortage of doctors.
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  Speaker 3: The House bill did pass its first stop unanimously. The
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  Speaker 3: Senate version only had two votes and its stop. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm concerned that this bill could have a negative impact
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  Speaker 3: on some of the challenges in the healthcare arena that
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: I just remember the case of the doctor that had
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  Speaker 1: someone die on the table in Pensacola. I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was and that doctor did not have to disclose that
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  Speaker 1: there had been a settlement on a similar case years before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you completely on that. This bill, I do believe,
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  Speaker 3: is something It's tweaked a little bit different, or it
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  Speaker 3: approaches a different part of that equation.
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  Speaker 2: It's on who has.
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  Speaker 3: Eligibility to sue, and so I have some concerns on this,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm trying to unpack it a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they they don't need to tell you what was settled.
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  Speaker 1: They need to tell you there was one's that's the
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  Speaker 1: issue here. Patients have to know that a doctor had
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  Speaker 1: been sued and settled.
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  Speaker 2: They have to know.
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  Speaker 4: That sounds like a seventies or eighties man action action
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  Speaker 4: TV show, but it's just sal Nowzo and me, Preston Scott,
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  Speaker 4: it was a.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently apparently I define seventies action man, you.
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  Speaker 1: And me both, buddy, All right, let's pick up with
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  Speaker 1: laws that are bills that are making their way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So Jenna Person's Malica on the House side presented twelve
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  Speaker 3: oh five in its first committee stop. So this one
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  Speaker 3: would tighten up the citizens' initiative process for constitutional amendments,
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  Speaker 3: things like requiring a one million dollar bond require everyone
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  Speaker 3: signing a petitional list either their driver's license number or
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  Speaker 3: last four or their social shortened the deadlines for submitting signatures.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask, yep, is this window dressing or are
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  Speaker 1: these signatures literally then run and matched?
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  Speaker 3: Oh gosh, these are the reasons why they're doing that,
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  Speaker 3: because they've had these issues on that very thing in
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  Speaker 3: prior initiative processes.
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  Speaker 2: I understand, but are they going to my point is,
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  Speaker 2: are they going to do it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they would happen because the one million.
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  Speaker 1: Dollar bond is nothing because these outside groups that are
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  Speaker 1: trying to get for example, we passed in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: They got all the money in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and to an extent, you're not going to financially
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  Speaker 3: impact a group like that that wants to come in.
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  Speaker 3: You could set that ball as high as you want
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  Speaker 3: and they'd be able to get the bonde. So what
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  Speaker 3: they're doing is trying to say, Okay, well, we're also
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  Speaker 3: going to make sure that it is as as deliberate
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  Speaker 3: as possible for you to get those signatures, and we're
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  Speaker 3: going to make sure that they're verified immediately, within a
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  Speaker 3: far shorter time window than you.
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  Speaker 1: Might have had to doctor or someone's going to have
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  Speaker 1: to pull out that information at the clipboard when someone's
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  Speaker 1: approaching them. Exactly, yeah, and so all of this is
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  Speaker 1: meant to go with that, Yeah, exactly and so. And
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  Speaker 1: the governor is absolutely behind this kind of attempt to
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  Speaker 1: make it more challenging.
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  Speaker 3: Because the Constitution is our governing document. It should be
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  Speaker 3: the hardest thing possible to amend, not in Florida, and
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  Speaker 3: that is the case. You are absolutely right. Senator Jen
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  Speaker 3: Bradley and Rep. Tracy Coster Senate Bill one thirty and
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  Speaker 3: HB fifty nine repeal the Clean Hands Provision and making
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  Speaker 3: it easier for individuals wrongly incarcerated to receive compensation for
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  Speaker 3: the years they've lost. Now, it's one that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a little bit less impactful than some.
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  Speaker 2: Of the other bills we'll go through.
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  Speaker 3: But the clean Hands provision is a particular mention because
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  Speaker 3: we're the only state that actually has a statute, and
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  Speaker 3: what it states is if you're wrongly convicted of a
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  Speaker 3: crime and you spend years in prison, but you have
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  Speaker 3: a prior felony, you cannot get compensated for that time
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  Speaker 3: you've lost. I think this is one where, regardless of
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  Speaker 3: the level of impact, it's maybe the right thing to do,
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  Speaker 3: And so they're moving that set it Bill two thirty
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  Speaker 3: four HB One seventy five from Tom Leak and Jessica
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  Speaker 3: Baker increasing the penalty for an individual who kills a
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement officer while resisting. So, we had a case
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  Speaker 3: where a person resisted in the struggle, they pulled the
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  Speaker 3: officer's firearm and shot him in the head, murdered him.
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  Speaker 3: It only resulted in a man slaughter conviction. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: would tighten that up, it would make it a first
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  Speaker 3: degree murder.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We've talked about some legislation that is in
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  Speaker 1: the pipeline.
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  Speaker 2: What's coming this week?
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  Speaker 3: All right, We've got today number of committee hearings, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of activity Senate Commerce and Tourism. Two tech related
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  Speaker 3: bills coming up that I'm paying attention to eleven thirty two,
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  Speaker 3: which is the Digital Right to Repair, which means if
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  Speaker 3: you have, for example, an iPhone and you need to
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: get it repaired, you have to take it to an
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Apple licensed repair shop. This would change that, as well
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  Speaker 3: as seven oh two on the Artificial Intelligence Digital Provedance.
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  Speaker 3: And this one is one where it's flying under the radar,
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  Speaker 3: but I expect it's going to get some hefty debate
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  Speaker 3: because I don't know that the tech companies are on
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  Speaker 3: board with this interesting development. Also on the Citizens' initiative
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  Speaker 3: process we talked about in the last segment, Blazing Golia
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  Speaker 3: filed a bill that was more comprehensive than the one
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  Speaker 3: that was heard in committee on Friday. The Senate side
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  Speaker 3: on the Ethics and Election Committee, which chaired by Senator
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Don Gates, they filed up what's called a PCB, a
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: proposed committee bill. It mirrors twelve oh five. Now it
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  Speaker 3: could be something else entirely, but it's got me wondering
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: on the dynamic with Senator and Golia having been one
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  Speaker 3: of the Governor's loudest supporters in the special Sessions are
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: they shifting it around to try and you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of get it set a little bit better posture. Moving
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  Speaker 3: on four forty eight from Senator Burgess, It's got a
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  Speaker 3: wonky title administrative procedures, but it's a really big deal.
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  Speaker 3: At the federal level, you had a Supreme Court case
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  Speaker 3: that repealed what's called the Chevron doctrine. It was a
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  Speaker 3: thing where the Court would have to defer to the
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  Speaker 3: quote expertise of an agency in ruling on a particular regulation.
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  Speaker 3: This bill would align with that Supreme Court reversal of that,
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  Speaker 3: so it would lower the threshold for a regulation. It
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  Speaker 3: prohibits an agency from adopting a rule or guidance unless
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  Speaker 3: it's granted explicit statutory authority. They'd have to prepare detailed
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  Speaker 3: statements of regulatory costs. So really getting at the regulatory
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  Speaker 3: state in the state to minimize it as much as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Representative Esposito has the House companion, and I would suggest
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  Speaker 3: this bill has the potential for being a model bill
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  Speaker 3: for other states. You may hear the term Rains Act
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  Speaker 3: at the federal or state level. This would be even
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  Speaker 3: better than just a basic Rains Act, one that I
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  Speaker 3: think could be your Favorite Bill of twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 3: nine nine from Representative Demi Bisada.
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  Speaker 2: It would, among a few other.
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  Speaker 3: Provisions, extend the ban on student use of wireless devices
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  Speaker 3: to the entire school day, as opposed to just instructional time.
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  Speaker 3: Only two stops in the House, it's up on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: The Senate version in from Danny Burgess, has a pilot
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  Speaker 3: program instead of full adoption. But I'm paying attention to
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  Speaker 3: how this unfolds.
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  Speaker 1: Does Senator Burgess not know that we have tried it
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  Speaker 1: in a few school districts with great success, and that's
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  Speaker 1: your pilot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to speak for for Senator Burgess, but
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  Speaker 3: there are differing ways of approaching in the different chambers,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm paying attention to how this one's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Uh okay okay. On Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Also, you've got two ninety six from Jennifer Bradley repealing
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  Speaker 3: the mandatory later school start times. It's up in its
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  Speaker 3: first stop. The first stop. Also for the Senate's Big
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Housing package one eighty four from Don Gates is up
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  Speaker 3: in its first committee. UH one seventy six from Senator
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Di Sege An interesting builded states, if you improve your
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: home for storm resilience. The added value cannot count against
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: you at assessment time when the tax collector does this.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: It's basically a way to try and an incentive homeowners,
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  Speaker 3: especially on the coastal areas, to figure out how to
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  Speaker 3: make their homes more stormhearted. You've got nine to fifty
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  Speaker 3: two repealing restrictions on purchasing firearms or related materials during
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  Speaker 3: an emergency. That's up in CJ Committee on Tuesday. You
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  Speaker 3: also have Criminal Justice, sorry about that. You also have
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: from Senator and Golia on Tuesday the term limits for
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: school board members and county commissioners, and that's going to
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: be up thirteen to twenty five on the House. So
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: this one's interesting. It would go on the ballot in
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. Up in its first committee, it will
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  Speaker 3: repeal and eliminate the office of Lieutenant Governor.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just ask you right there, you like that idea?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know yet. I'm on the fence on it,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and I and I'm hedging because I'm really trying to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: unpack the reasoning behind this and I'm not necessarily seeing
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  Speaker 1: what others are as they propose it, and so I'm
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  Speaker 1: on the fence. But not one oh on that part
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It would abolish the Government Efficiency Task Force, which I
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: happened to serve on, but it only meets every five years.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: And it would create a new office of the Commissioner
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: of Government Efficiency as a cabinet officer and basically create
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  Speaker 3: a Florida DOGE system that operates in perpetuity. And so
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: that's a really intriguing one. But it would go on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot for next election cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, you did it.
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  Speaker 2: I did it.
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  Speaker 1: Four pages woof of notes, of notes in five segments.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't type. I don't type with a big type.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: This is this is a this was a bear this week.
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  Speaker 1: But use my magnifying glass. Thanks buddy, Always a pleasure.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: My friend sunder Zoh with Consumers Defense. He's executive director
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Consumers Defense dot com if you want to learn more
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: about that organization. We'll be back next week with another
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: legislative update here in the Morning Show.