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

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Speaker 1: And the immortal words a Batman from the television show
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Speaker 1: We Haven't a Moment to Lose. Third hour of the
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Speaker 1: Morning Show with Preston scottis Osea. I'm Preston. This is Salnozo,
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Speaker 1: executive director of Consumers Defense. He joins us on the
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Speaker 1: phone line today, sir, how are you.
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Speaker 2: I am good, A little bit cold, like everybody else
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Speaker 2: is today. I am calling in from the great state
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Speaker 2: of Utah, where it is currently seven with a windshow
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Speaker 2: of minus ten. So glad to be with you.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was cold.
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Speaker 2: I forget you're a green day guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sort of kind of. All right, let's get right
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Speaker 1: to it. Let's pick up what's going on on the
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Speaker 1: executive level.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so a couple of things. At the governor's level,
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Speaker 2: it's a little bit quiet. There's a lot more going
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Speaker 2: on elsewhere. But this past week the governor did, in
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Speaker 2: fact have in Tallahassee the German ambassador to the United States,
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Speaker 2: and they had a press conference. They assigned a letter
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Speaker 2: of intent to expand trade and investment opportunities. Just another
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Speaker 2: example of where the governor is taking kind of the
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Speaker 2: status of Florida and making it a national brand. You've
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Speaker 2: also got the Attorney General continuing to make a lot
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Speaker 2: of national news. Last week, we had talked about he
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Speaker 2: and his counterpart in Texas pushing to untie the American
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Speaker 2: Bar Association as the gatekeeper for regulating and licensing who
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Speaker 2: gets into law schools in the States. This week, once
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Speaker 2: again his actions probably bigger and more notable. He's just
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Speaker 2: issued opinions galore, the one this week asserting that many
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Speaker 2: DEI and affirmative action measures in both public and private
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Speaker 2: sectors constitute unlawful race based discrimination under federal and state law.
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Speaker 2: That's a big, big.
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Speaker 1: Deal, and he's right. It is discriminate nation. Anything that's
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Speaker 1: based on the color of one scan or ethnicity is
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Speaker 1: inherently discriminatory.
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Speaker 2: Well, and this also kind of pertains to a lot
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Speaker 2: of relevant case cases that are before the US Supreme Court,
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Speaker 2: some that they've heard and were expecting rulings on, and
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Speaker 2: others that are going to be coming down the pike
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Speaker 2: in this current term.
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Speaker 1: I believe if you were to broadly just kind of
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Speaker 1: give us an overview of the legislative week, how would
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Speaker 1: you describe it?
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Speaker 2: I would say, I mean, as far as the week
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Speaker 2: two goes, it was definitely one of the most seriously,
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Speaker 2: just one of the most jam packed ones I've seen
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Speaker 2: this early on. Now, when we kind of think about
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Speaker 2: the session almost like a horse race, You've got those
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Speaker 2: first two weeks and I would analogize those as kind
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Speaker 2: of the horses getting out of the gate, jockeying for
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Speaker 2: position heading into the first turn. But it's also typically
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Speaker 2: kind of a chess game between chambers. These are your
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Speaker 2: opening moves. What does one chamber push ahead on? What
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Speaker 2: are they signal priorities for? What do you think there
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Speaker 2: the other is going to horse trade on and do
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Speaker 2: you hold back or do you pull triggers on things?
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Speaker 2: This all unfolds with the choreography of the first two weeks,
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Speaker 2: But based on this past week, the committee work alone
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Speaker 2: was just I mean, it was enormous.
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Speaker 1: To try and track anything stand out.
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Speaker 2: A couple of things, one in particular on the budget
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Speaker 2: that I wanted to kind of highlight before maybe we
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Speaker 2: go into break and then pick up on kind of
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Speaker 2: the specific activity. Now we all know the budget is
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Speaker 2: a big things there one constitutional requirement. Florida does a
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Speaker 2: great job on this budget, But something very interesting that
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Speaker 2: was noted and it's been prepared for or at least
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Speaker 2: dialogues about and it's related to SNAP. That's the Supplemental
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Speaker 2: Nutrition Assistance program you used to call it food stamps.
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Speaker 2: Two parts of the one Beautiful Bill at performs to SNAP.
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Speaker 2: We're going to shift costs to the state and they'll
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Speaker 2: penalized states that have an error rate on SNAP that's
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Speaker 2: too high over six percent. Well, ours we just found
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Speaker 2: out for last year was fifteen percent, which if we
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Speaker 2: do not improvement, could improve upon, it could result in
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Speaker 2: up to a billion dollars in find that the state
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Speaker 2: would have.
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Speaker 1: To pay to the FED real quickly. Does the state
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Speaker 1: have any idea why their mistake rate was so high?
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Speaker 2: That's what they're looking into right now. But relatively speaking,
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Speaker 2: and this is sad, it's not something where Florida is
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Speaker 2: an outlier compared to other states. I've been doing a
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Speaker 2: lot of work on this in my current role, and
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Speaker 2: this is something where a whole host of states are
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Speaker 2: doing really poorly when it comes to managing SNAP funds
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Speaker 2: and being able to keep an error rate down low.
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Speaker 2: You talk about waste brought and abuse across the board,
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Speaker 2: that's just what happens Florida. They have a high error
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Speaker 2: rate relative to what we would want, but sadly it's
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Speaker 2: not as high relative to other states.
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Speaker 1: As you can imagine. There's a lot to cover, and
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Speaker 1: we try to focus on the things that impact you
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Speaker 1: the most. Sal Newzo from Consumer's Defense with a sal
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Speaker 1: What passed the House last week?
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Speaker 2: Actually nothing passed the House last week. I'd made an
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Speaker 2: exhausted look and I was wondering, and it turned out
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Speaker 2: they did not have a floor session last week. They
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Speaker 2: were something that agendaed on the calendar, but they didn't
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Speaker 2: do anything there. But the Senate did pass a couple
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Speaker 2: of notable bills that I think are worth mentioning and
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Speaker 2: diving into because they're also going to pretend what the
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Speaker 2: what the chambers do down the road in a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks. First off with Senate Bill three twenty. It's
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Speaker 2: actually Corey Simon's bill. Now, this was the big education
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Speaker 2: package for Florida, removing red tape in the public education system.
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Speaker 2: The bill itself is eighty six pages. Yes, I did
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Speaker 2: read it all. I'm not saying I understood every element
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Speaker 2: of it, but it's a beast. Now, the staff analysis
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Speaker 2: alone is thirty pages. Now, typically on a bill of
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Speaker 2: staff analysis is going to be a couple two three
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Speaker 2: four pages. Tons of reforms, like things to reforming the
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Speaker 2: Uniform Assessment Calendar, which is how they evaluate teachers and
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Speaker 2: schools in districts. You've got school Improvement plan changes, how
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Speaker 2: they administer the salary schedules for the districts. That's a
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Speaker 2: big deal for teachers. The teacher apprenticeship program that is
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Speaker 2: a huge need to improve upon and continue to grow
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Speaker 2: in the state. I did find it interesting the companion
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Speaker 2: bill in the House HB nine forty three. It's reference
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Speaker 2: to four committees. Now, normally you would look at something
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Speaker 2: like that and say that's not a good sign for
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Speaker 2: how the House feels about a particular idea. My guess
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Speaker 2: is they may get it through one committee House, use
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Speaker 2: the Senates bill, and then go back and forth on
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Speaker 2: the negotiations to pass it to the governor. The other
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Speaker 2: one that I'll pulling out is Senate Bill seven zero
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Speaker 2: one zero. This is a proposed committee bill a PCV.
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Speaker 2: It does allow for state employees to contribute to a
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Speaker 2: law IRA through their deferred compensation plan. This is really important.
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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of listeners that are in state government,
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Speaker 2: their employees. This would be a big boom to them.
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Speaker 2: It passed thirty six to zero. It's being sent over
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Speaker 2: to the House what they call in messages. My guess
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Speaker 2: is that this is one that's going to sail. It's
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Speaker 2: a really it's not going to cost the state anything.
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Speaker 2: It allows the employees to generate more investment returns over
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Speaker 2: the course of their time in service. They passed a
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Speaker 2: few other things, just kind of cleaning up outdated or
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Speaker 2: expired statutes to get them off the books officially, but
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Speaker 2: it was kind of a lighter week in terms of
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Speaker 2: what the chambers have passed then where they're going. But
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Speaker 2: that kind of begs the question, what are they going
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Speaker 2: to be doing in the coming weeks to get things
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Speaker 2: through the chambers.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's just we've got about a minute or so
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Speaker 1: left in this segment. Let's start with what is moving
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Speaker 1: And you point out House Joint Resolution two oh three.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the big one HJR. Two zero three. It's
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Speaker 2: the tax the property tax bill that would go on
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Speaker 2: the ballot. It's the one that eliminates all non school
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Speaker 2: property taxes for homesteaded properties. It passed the full House.
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Speaker 2: It has a ten year implementation phase. What it does
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Speaker 2: is it adds one hundred thousand dollars to the homestead
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Speaker 2: exemption each year for ten years, and effectively, over the
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Speaker 2: course of those ten years, you would be your property
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Speaker 2: tax build a nonschool portion would be reduced each time
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Speaker 2: until all of that goes away. It's got to pass
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Speaker 2: the Senate though, and the companion bill for that well,
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Speaker 2: we're still waiting to see it, so it's kind of
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Speaker 2: a little up in the air. And I've also read
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Speaker 2: some things really early this morning from sources that are
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Speaker 2: kind of questioning the status of it, and it's definitely
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Speaker 2: something we're going to have to dive into over the
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Speaker 2: course of the next couple of weeks to kind of
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Speaker 2: monitor the progress.
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Speaker 1: As we remind you, what happens in state government is
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Speaker 1: the most impactful to your life. Yes, the federal stuff
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Speaker 1: can help and hurt, but really it all comes down
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Speaker 1: to what happens in the state, and so we follow
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Speaker 1: that very closely. Sale NEWSA with us sal What else
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Speaker 1: is moving.
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Speaker 2: Oh, there's a ton. So one of the big pushes
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Speaker 2: in at least the Senate and from the Governor has
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Speaker 2: been identifying what are the artificial intelligency AI reforms or
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Speaker 2: regulations that need to be put in place to protect fulridians.
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Speaker 2: We know that the President and the One Big Beautiful
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Speaker 2: Bill Actor some back and forth on who would be
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Speaker 2: responsible for that, the Feds of the state. Right now,
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Speaker 2: it's a free for all, so it's kind of a
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Speaker 2: tight walk, the tightrope walk, because you know, Trump did
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Speaker 2: not want states doing it, but the One Big Beautiful
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Speaker 2: Bill Act allows for it. So far, You've got a
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Speaker 2: huge bill from Senator Tom Lee, Senate Bill for eighty
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Speaker 2: two that's moving in committee, was approved unanimously. There's a
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Speaker 2: ton of provisions in it, but mainly it's stuff like
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Speaker 2: protections for privacy and others, and some disclosure and transparency.
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Speaker 2: You've got provisions like the chat bots that we see.
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Speaker 2: Chatbot platforms would be required to post pop up warnings
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Speaker 2: and messages to appear so that people know that they're
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Speaker 2: not necessarily talking with a human. They would have to
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Speaker 2: be done every hour. Children would not be allowed to
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Speaker 2: communicate with chatbox without parental permission. Parents would have to
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Speaker 2: control what their childs are seeing, which you know we
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Speaker 2: would say is a pretty good idea. The bill would
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Speaker 2: also require miners to be reminded to take a break
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Speaker 2: at least once every hour. I thought about this as
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Speaker 2: like I get these in the rental cars, where I
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Speaker 2: get a notification like you might want to stop for
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Speaker 2: some coffee. I don't know how much I like this,
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Speaker 2: but with minors, I think it's a great idea. I
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Speaker 2: did mention unanimous, and this is something where I think
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Speaker 2: we may want to unpack this as it moves through committee.
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Speaker 2: It could be a really good lesson because Senator Leak
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Speaker 2: has been adamant about each committee stopped, He's going to
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Speaker 2: be tightening up the language to make this bill better
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Speaker 2: and better. And I think we want to kind of
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Speaker 2: keep an eye on this one to at the very
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Speaker 2: least educate listeners on how the committee process shapes and
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Speaker 2: improves legislation. You've also got related to that too, bills
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Speaker 2: from Senator Ovolis sen at Bill forty four and eleven eighteen,
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Speaker 2: which are on the data center issues, which are kind
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Speaker 2: of prevalent in almost every state this year. The bills
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Speaker 2: there would prohibit state and local agencies from signing non
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Speaker 2: disclosure agreements, It would require the Florida Public Service Commission
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Speaker 2: to hold existing ratepayers harmless for any added demand, and
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Speaker 2: it would establish a water permitting framework. For these large
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Speaker 2: scale ones because in order to generate the energy, they
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Speaker 2: need a ton of water. The other bill is a
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Speaker 2: public records exemption, and there's a little bit of back
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Speaker 2: and forth on that one, but it's right now only
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Speaker 2: a twelve month window for that, and we're going to
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Speaker 2: have to see how it goes as it moves along.
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Speaker 1: What other things do we need to pay attention to
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Speaker 1: before we take a break? We got about two minutes.
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Speaker 2: Alrighty, So six five seven from Ron callers Porus last
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Speaker 2: week you had asked a really good question about a
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Speaker 2: particular how what particular bill would apply when there are
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Speaker 2: HOA covenants. Well, he's been for several sessions. He has
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Speaker 2: been on HOA reform. So six five seven would create
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Speaker 2: a state funded court process to address condo and HOA disputes.
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Speaker 2: It would replace existing pre lawsuit mediation procedures. It's moving
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Speaker 2: in the House. We'll have to see on the Senate.
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Speaker 2: One that I think is great HB one twenty seven
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Speaker 2: restoring cursive writing to education. Maybeldorf has been doing this.
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Speaker 2: It's onto the full chamber.
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Speaker 1: That's wonderful. We're going to actually have kids learn to
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Speaker 1: write again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just it's one that he's been pushing for
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Speaker 2: a couple of years now. I think it's fantastic. Senate
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Speaker 2: version SB four forty four is making its way onto
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Speaker 2: the agenda, and that's one that I just think is
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Speaker 2: like little things that go a long way. So that's one.
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Speaker 2: You've also got seven forty three on the House side.
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Speaker 2: It would give the Attorney General more power to investigate
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Speaker 2: and sue healthcare practitioners who give puberty blockers, hormones, other
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Speaker 2: prescriptions to minors or performed surgical procedures. Now I know
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Speaker 2: the question is like, didn't we outlaw this previously, Well
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Speaker 2: we did, but this establishes penalties. It could bring up
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Speaker 2: to one hundred thousand dollars fine Setate Bill ten ten
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Speaker 2: from Senator Yarborough, I think I mentioned this one last
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Speaker 2: week has this provision in there as well. So it's
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Speaker 2: one that I think is just really one that's it's
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Speaker 2: it needs, it's a compliment to what they did last year.
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Speaker 1: Sadly necessary are the words that come to my mind.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a you know I always say, I often
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Speaker 2: say when I testify or speak, you know, it's a
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Speaker 2: shame that we actually have to pass the law for
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Speaker 2: this but we do. And here we.
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Speaker 1: Are thirty five minutes past the hour. We are trying
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Speaker 1: to be mindful of the clock so we can get
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Speaker 1: as much in with Sal Nuzzo. He is the executive
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Speaker 1: director of Consumers Defense. Sal. Let's pick up with what
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Speaker 1: is moving in the legislative session.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to try to run through and talk
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Speaker 2: as fast as I can because we do have a lot.
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Speaker 2: You got set a bill two sixteen from Stan McClain
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Speaker 2: Florida's employment compensation system. I know we had problems back
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Speaker 2: in COVID. They're continuing to tweak that it would disqualify
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Speaker 2: individuals claiming unemployment insurance benefits if they also find that
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Speaker 2: you failed to do the number of calls you need
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Speaker 2: to do each week to try to find jobs, to
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Speaker 2: appear for your interviews, and kind of return to employment
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Speaker 2: when you're recalled after a temporary layoff. The Senate versions
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Speaker 2: a little bit different, but that's also moving as well.
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Speaker 2: You've got regulations on e bites that's coming down the pike.
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Speaker 2: HB two forty three from a Venerations in her first
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Speaker 2: term as a new member. It establishes a task force
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Speaker 2: to see if the state should establish some set of
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of consistent regulations HB one oh five
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Speaker 2: from Robbie Brackett, making it easier for businesses to sue
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Speaker 2: local governments when the local government does not follow their
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Speaker 2: own rules regarding business regulations and the like. Stam McClain
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Speaker 2: has the companion. It moved in committee and the House
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Speaker 2: sixteen to zero. Last week we talked about the bill
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Speaker 2: on rounding to the nearest Nickel again one of those
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Speaker 2: examples where I can't believe we have to pass a
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Speaker 2: law for this. Senate Bill ten seventy four is now
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Speaker 2: moving in the Senate, so I expect they'll probably get
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Speaker 2: that through. Last year they passed a pretty innovative program
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Speaker 2: to provide swim lesson vouchers for low income families to
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Speaker 2: keep you know, to get kids swimming lessons when they're
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Speaker 2: real young. The Senate is moving a bill that would
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Speaker 2: expand that to kids up to seven years old, Senate
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Speaker 2: Bill nine eighty six. Senator Joe Gruders, you know, we
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Speaker 2: do know they are going to try to put another
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Speaker 2: recreational marijuana amendment on the ballot. He's trying to get
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Speaker 2: ahead of that. No smoking or vaping weed in public
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Speaker 2: spaces now that would apply even to medical marijuana. But
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Speaker 2: so that's there.
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Speaker 1: Hey, hang on a second, So is there any discussion
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Speaker 1: that you're aware of that expands that into subdivisions where
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Speaker 1: let's say the housing density as such, where you don't
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Speaker 1: have large acreage where someone could ostensibly smoke their weed
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Speaker 1: and not affect their neighbors. But you know, I think
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Speaker 1: that that's going to have to be addressed.
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Speaker 2: It is, and it's one that you've actually referenced a
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Speaker 2: couple of times in like last year when the amendment
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Speaker 2: was going through. It's one I'm not aware of any
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Speaker 2: direct discussions on that, but it is something that as
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Speaker 2: this moves it may be one where they're kind of
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Speaker 2: dialogue on it in committee and tighten it up or
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Speaker 2: expand it out, depending on how it proceeds. Okay, likely
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Speaker 2: on the things that are moving that I'm kind of
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Speaker 2: got on my list eight forty from Senator to Seglee
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Speaker 2: tweats to the rules and regulations governing local governments and
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Speaker 2: storm recover. It's a big issue for Florida. Ongoing conversations
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Speaker 2: every year on this feature. Passed Senate Bill one eighty
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Speaker 2: last year. The intent of that was to make it
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Speaker 2: as easy and painless and as possible to rebuild after
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Speaker 2: a natural disaster. This is doing more to that. The
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Speaker 2: House version is one four six y five watching that
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Speaker 2: as well.
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Speaker 1: Before we get to what's coming up, let's get to
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Speaker 1: some things that you are specifically watching.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what I thought would be interesting is last
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Speaker 2: week we talked about what each chamber had passed out
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Speaker 2: of their full chamber, and so I thought it'd be
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Speaker 2: interesting this week to highlight the bills that one chamber
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Speaker 2: had passed in week one and see what the status
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Speaker 2: of them was in the other chamber. As of yesterday,
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Speaker 2: there were only a few that have some early momentum.
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Speaker 2: Everything else is kind of stalled in the other chamber.
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Speaker 2: So on those HB two eighty nine from Sam Greco,
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Speaker 2: this is the bill that would allow parents to file
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Speaker 2: wrongful death civil suits when an unborn child is killed.
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Speaker 2: Senator Grahl has the companion bill in the Senate. It's moving,
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Speaker 2: and so I think this actually has some momentum behind it.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna get contentious as it gets closer to the
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Speaker 2: full chambers. Okay, one from Overdoor Nursing Education. That's the
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Speaker 2: one that they're going to try and tighten up the
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Speaker 2: regulations there. Gail Harrell has the companion in the Senate,
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Speaker 2: but the House bill was referenced to the Rules Committee,
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Speaker 2: which indicates to me they're going to pass that bill
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Speaker 2: in the Senate and send it right to the Governor.
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Speaker 2: And then you've got Senate our House Bill three fifty
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Speaker 2: five from Oliver minimum standards for providing pediatric emergency care
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Speaker 2: in the Brs. Again. Senator Harrel has the companion bill
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Speaker 2: and it's got a favorable hearing.
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Speaker 1: Precession fatally said at the beginning in a note to
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Speaker 1: me that if he got through all of this, he
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Speaker 1: deserves some kind of awards. Sal You've got the you've
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Speaker 1: got the light at the end of the tunnel, Bunny,
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Speaker 1: You're gonna do it. What's coming up today?
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Speaker 2: Nothing for the House. Senate's got a number of committee here.
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Speaker 2: The Criminal Justice Committee's got eleven bills on their agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's really packed. Government Oversight and Accountability has got ten bills,
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Speaker 2: including the Cybersecurity Bill six ninety two from Tom Leek.
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Speaker 2: Tuesday's the huge day for committee hearing on the Senate.
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Speaker 2: You've got a massive Rules Committee. They're the final datekeeper
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Speaker 2: for bills before it goes to the full chamber. They're
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Speaker 2: going to try and get twenty two bills through in
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Speaker 2: a two and a half hour committee hearing, and the
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Speaker 2: Senate does not allow you to extend you the time.
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Speaker 2: You've got the Housing bill from Don Gates forty eight.
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Speaker 2: In addition, you've got Judiciary, Environment, Natural Resources, Education, Community Affairs,
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Speaker 2: and that's just the Senate. The House only on Tuesdays
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Speaker 2: got Education and Employment, Judiciary, State Affairs, Commerce, Health and
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Speaker 2: Human Services, Ways and Means, Agriculture, Elder Affairs, Regulated Industries, Transportation,
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Speaker 2: and the Budget Committee.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: That's just that's it, Like you know, other than that,
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Speaker 2: how did you like the play, missus Lincoln? These guys
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Speaker 2: in gals are going to be running around crazy on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be hearing one of the other major
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Speaker 2: property tax proposals. This one's two thirteen. It would reform
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Speaker 2: the assessment process to once every three years instead of
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Speaker 2: every year, with a three percent cap for the three years,
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Speaker 2: not a three percent every year, which is what we
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Speaker 2: have now. There's so many bills up on Tuesday, it's
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Speaker 2: just I didn't want to kind of highlight some and
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Speaker 2: not highlight others. But I'm really looking forward to next week.
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Speaker 2: I'll be back in studio. We can really dive into
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Speaker 2: some of those that are picking up steam and see
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Speaker 2: where the House is landing versus the Senate where we
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Speaker 2: expect there to be some fireworks, versus where they're just
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Speaker 2: going to get stuff right to the governor. I got
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Speaker 2: to say I'm a little concerned that they're moving other
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Speaker 2: property tax proposals because, as the Governor mentioned, if there
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Speaker 2: are multiple ballot initiatives on property taxes out, really it's
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Speaker 2: gonna it's gonna result in voters being confused and nothing passing.
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Speaker 1: Tell me this, when you say the Senate has a
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Speaker 1: rule that does not allow them to extend, we're talking
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Speaker 1: about literally they allowed X amount of time and they
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Speaker 1: don't take a minute longer.
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Speaker 2: That is it. And in fact, later in the session
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Speaker 2: that they'll remind everybody who are coming up to give
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Speaker 2: kids to give remarks or testimony that you know, bills
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Speaker 2: are dying, We've got more on the calendar. Please give
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Speaker 2: your marks remarks, you know, please keep them brief because
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Speaker 2: they will gabble it out and if your bill is
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Speaker 2: not heard, it's it's you got to try and get
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Speaker 2: it on another committee. Agenda.
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Speaker 1: That's just stupid. Sal Uh.
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Speaker 2: It's a it's a rule that's different for the Senate
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Speaker 2: than it is for the House. Now there are procedures,
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Speaker 2: but it's got to go through the Senate President in
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Speaker 2: order to waive that rule to be able to extend
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Speaker 2: the time And historically the Senate presidents are not real
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Speaker 2: teen on extending the timeframe for committee hearings because they don't.
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Speaker 1: Want it to be a habit they meet once a year.
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Speaker 1: They need to get it right. And if it takes
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Speaker 1: a half hour forty five minutes to get it right,
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Speaker 1: take the time.
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Speaker 2: I get it. And it's something where I think their
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Speaker 2: thinking on this is if we if it's the slippery slope,
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Speaker 2: if we if we start doing that all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: we're allowing committee hearings to go you know, several hours.
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Speaker 2: Now later in the session there will be six seven
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Speaker 2: eight hour committee hearing agenda times because they've got to
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Speaker 2: get all of those fiscal items through, especially when it
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Speaker 2: comes to any bills that are going to have an
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Speaker 2: impact on the budget.
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Speaker 1: All right, friend, you'd be safe and stay warm and
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Speaker 1: we'll talk next week.
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Speaker 2: I will do my best to stay safe. Staying warm
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Speaker 2: is going to be questionable here in this climate.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much appreciate get it's out, always a
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Speaker 1: pleasure of my friend Salouzo. Consumers Defense legislative update only
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Speaker 1: found here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmmmm