Tallahassee — The Florida Senate this week approved Senate Resolution 1064, United States Department of State’s List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, by Senator Ileana Garcia (R-Miami). The resolution expresses the Florida Senate’s commitment to a stable and prosperous Colombia and opposition to the Biden Administration’s decision to remove the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) from […]

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Tallahassee — En colaboración con la cámara de comercio colombo-americana, la Senadora Annette Taddeo, invita a la comunidad colombo-estadounidense residente en la Florida y a sus amigos, a participar del DÍA DE COLOMBIA 2022 (COLOMBIA DAY 2022). Comenzaremos esta celebración con una recepción de bienvenida en el AC Hotel by Marriot el martes, día 1 de marzo a partir de […]

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the following bills:
CS/CS/HB 269 – Public Nuisances
CS/CS/HB 1297 – Capital Sexual Battery
CS/CS/HB 1359 – Offenses Involving Fentanyl or Fentanyl Analogs
CS/CS/HB 1627 – Pretrial Release and De…

Tallahassee — Yesterday, The Florida Senate unanimously passed SB 562, Military Occupational Licensure, by Senator Janet Cruz (D—Tampa), which takes aim at the problem of active duty military spouse unemployment.  Active duty military spouses face significantly more challenges to entering the Florida workforce than their civilian counterparts, due to the frequency of relocation and licensing requirements imposed […]

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This week, the Senate unanimously passed SB 692 Sexual Offenses, sponsored by Senator Linda Stewart (D – Orlando). The bill establishes consistency in the definition of female genitals in Florida statute.  “There is an issue in current statute where a woman’s genitals are defined only as vagina. By replacing the word with the defined term […]

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Legislature answers Governor’s call to action to combat government- and corporate-sanctioned activism and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement   JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed comprehensive legislation to protect Floridians from the corporatist environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) movement — a worldwide effort to inject woke political ideology across the financial sector, […]

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