Dara Kam - News Service of Florida
Dara Kam is the Senior Reporter of .
-
A legislative package, rolled out by Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo and two key lieutenants, calls for spending nearly $900 million to, among other things, shift patients away from emergency rooms, offset hospitals’ training costs and help doctors pay off debt.
-
A 2018 constitutional amendment designed to bolster victims' rights "does not explicitly" shield the identities of police officers --- or any other people --- from disclosure, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in a major decision on Thursday.
-
In flying 50 migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, DeSantis said: "It’s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you, to be able to go to greener pastures.”
-
Wrote the plaintiffs: “Throughout Florida, schools are taking extraordinary measures to purge any trace of LGBT people from schools, and teachers are afraid to show any support for LGBT students.”
-
The caps came nearly six years after voters approved a constitutional amendment broadly legalizing medical marijuana and more than three years after the Legislature authorized smokable marijuana.
-
It allows authorities to take guns from people found to pose a “significant danger” to themselves or others. Critics say it gives the government too much power and doesn’t do enough to safeguard due-process rights.
-
The decision will almost certainly keep in place for this year’s elections the controversial 2021 law that created additional hurdles for voters to cast ballots by mail.
-
It follows a ruling last year that the law violated the First Amendment.
-
The governor signed two Disney-related measures passed during a special session on congressional redistricting, prompting credit-rating agency Fitch Ratings to place a “rating watch negative” on about $1 billion in outstanding debt.
-
Critics say it poses a threat to thousands of migrants in the state whose temporary visas have expired or whose applications for asylum already are in the pipeline.