Several colleagues, friends and even family members have inquired how lobbying occurs in the midst of a pandemic. I thought I would share some insights and stories about this now that we have passed the one-year anniversary since the World Health Organization officially identified COVID-19 as a pandemic. COVID-19 is ubiquitous to our whole lives Read more about Lobbying during COVID[…]
TEXTING AND DRIVING A bill passed by the Florida Legislature in 2019 allows law enforcement to pull over a driver for texting while driving. Records show that the law is rarely enforced. In 2020, more than 20 county sheriff’s departments did not report any issued tickets. Broward County reported only 18 tickets and there were Read more about Issues of Interest[…]
3,011 bills have been filed this session, with 1,060 being House appropriation bills. The House is the only chamber that assigns bill numbers to funding requests for projects. To date, the Legislature has passed 56 bills (14 in the House and 43 in the Senate), Governor DeSantis signed the COVID-19 liability bill on March 29th. Read more about Legislative Issues[…]
The Legislature began its 2021 sixty-day session on Tuesday, March 2nd. The first four weeks have been busy for the members as they consider bills in committee meetings; albeit, it has been strange with the general public having limited access to the Capitol Complex. Governor Ron DeSantis issued an Executive Order on March 15th to Read more about From the Capitol[…]
Appointments by Governor DeSantis: Florida Board of Dentistry Appointed were Bradley Cherry, Ponte Vedra Beach, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in St. Augustine; Thomas McCawley, Fort Lauderdale, president of McCawley Periodontics P.A. who previously served in the U.S. Army Dental Corps; Christine Bojaxhi, Neptune Beach, a dentist at the Mayo Clinic of Florida and Comfortable Read more about Movers and Shakers[…]