Veto | WGCU PBS & NPR for Southwest Florida

This week, two bills didn't make the cut.

Nick Evans

The second week of June marked the end of the road for more than a hundred bills passed by state lawmakers. Nearly all of them became law, but two were...

Gay Adoption Ban Stricken from Florida Laws After 4 Decades

Associated Press

A nearly four-decade-old law banning gays from adopting children, which hasn't been enforced in five years, will come off Florida's books July 1, but...

Hurricane Andrew in 1992 prompted the creation of Citizens Insurance to fill the gap left when private insurers left much of the state.

Gov. Scott Vetoes Unanimous Citizens Insurance Bill

Nick Evans

Gov. Rick Scott brought out the veto pen Tuesday, rejecting a measure that gained unanimous approval in both chambers of the Florida Legislature. The...

Scott said one measure (HB 755) would force convenience stores to add "potentially costly security." The second bill (HB 1087), he said, "undermines progress" in shifting policies into the private insurance market from the state-backed Citizens.

Scott Vetoes Bills On Convenience Stores, Citizens Insurance

Jim Turner

Gov. Rick Scott vetoed bills Tuesday that were intended to increase convenience-store security and to give policyholders more options as the state seeks...

Opponents Of Abortion Waiting Period Bill Urge Gov. Scott To Use Veto Pen

Sascha Cordner

There’s a campaign underway urging Governor Rick Scott to veto a controversial abortion bill now delivered to his desk requiring a woman wait 24 hours...