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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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GOVERNMENT

Is CAIR a Hamas front group?

CAIR has long positioned itself as the premier Muslim civil rights organization, but a new report from George Washington University traces the group's beginnings to a 1993 Hamas activist meeting in a Philadelphia hotel conference room.

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GOVERNMENT

Local legislators respond to House Resolution to cut ties with CAIR

“This is not the purview of the state government. It is the purview of the federal government.”

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LEGISLATION

Specialty license plate bills filed

Student scholarships and an addiction awareness program may see the benefits if bills for two new specialty license plates are passed.

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LEGISLATION

Thompson, Bracy Davis file bills to prevent tots dying in hot cars

Legislation would require the installation of vehicle alarm systems to alert caregivers if a baby is still in the backseat.

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