This edition’s Bill Watch will close out the 2025 legislative session reports on bills that would change public policy. On Friday, May 2, legislators in both chambers had finally agreed on …
This was supposed to be the last week of session for the Florida Legislature but House and Senate leaders late last Thursday announced they’re still far apart on a …
Classes resume this morning (April 21) at Florida State University here in Tallahassee following last Thursday’s mass shooting by a student who in a span of less than 5 …
Last week was a slow week in the Florida Legislature for insurance and related bills, as both the House and Senate turned their attention to the only bill they …
Given the increasing momentum of pro-litigation measures in the Florida Legislature, we are adding HB 881 and HB 947 to this week’s Bill Watch. Despite the fact there are …
We’re entering the halfway point of the nine-week Florida legislative session. Amid competing tax cut proposals and multi-billion-dollar differences between the House and Senate state budget plans, comes some …
Despite repeated news stories – and now the year-end 2024 report by insurance regulators that net homeowners insurance rates have declined across the Florida market – some state lawmakers …
By week’s end, we’ll be a third of the way through the Florida Legislature’s nine-week session. Given that the pre-session committees heard very few bills, lawmakers are rushing to …
The slow and interrupted pace of the past two months of Florida legislative committee meetings yielded an avalanche of bills in the last two weeks prior to this past Friday’s filing deadline, including several shocking bills that …
As the old expression goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In the case of flooding and other natural disasters, both FEMA and the IBHS tell us that a dollar of effective mitigation …
