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After the FSU shooting, Barbie Harden Hall talks about “common sense” gun safety

The daughter of a career law enforcement officer and a candidate for Congress, Hall gets real about the horrible déjà vu of another Florida mass shooting and the legislation she wants to enact to change that.

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2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Bankson “tag flipping” bill heads to House floor vote

Obscuring license plates would become second-degree misdemeanor.

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2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Bipartisan bill to add fentanyl to standard hospital toxicology screening headed for House floor vote

Legislation would mandate emergency rooms test for and confirm fentanyl in suspected drug overdose cases.

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2025 STATE LEGISLATURE

House transportation bill that promotes workforce development, advanced technologies, targets FDOT program for disadvantaged small businesses

Republicans say bill would still consider women- and minority-owned businesses; Democrats say otherwise.

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2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Two bills to help at-risk youth avoid the criminal justice system moving forward in the House

One aims to reduce truancy, the other gun violence.

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2025 STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Several Bankson bills continue to advance through House committees

Legislation includes establishing an Office of Faith and Community.

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VOTING RIGHTS

Civil rights organizations rally at Capitol to demand passage of Florida Voting Rights Act

NAACP Legal Defense Fund: “Our country is stronger when everyone has an equal opportunity to vote.”

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2025 STATE LEGISLATURE

Bankson bill cracking down on xylazine advances to House Judiciary Committee

Used to cut other street drugs, overdose deaths associated with this vet tranquilizer are on the rise.

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2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Here's what your legislators are working on in Tallahassee

Banning classic books, fluoride and plant foods labeled "milk" or "meat" together with curbing teen violence, regulating drone use, instituting tax breaks for veterans and lowering the age for organ donation — these are just some of the bills local lawmakers will be working on during the 60-day legislative session that starts Tuesday.

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GOVERNMENT

Florida municipal leaders get Form 6 filing reprieve

Federal District Court judge grants preliminary injunction to block “highly intrusive” financial disclosure requirements.

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