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Bipartisan effort blocks ‘omnibus anti-choice’ bill from moving to Senate floor

By | 03.05.12 | 4:13 pm

Today, a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats in the Florida Senate blocked an effort to take a controversial anti-abortion bill out of committee for a final vote in that chamber.

State Senate committee passes bill to reduce minimum wage for tipped workers

By | 02.16.12 | 10:35 am

The state Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee passed a bill Thursday that would allow employers to pay tipped workers, waiters and waitresses, a lower minimum wage than what is currently authorized in Florida.

Bill to allow student fee increase catches senators off guard

By | 02.10.12 | 9:03 am

A bill that would allow universities to increase building fees was temporarily postponed in the state Senate Higher Education Committeee Thursday when state Sens. Gary Siplin, D-Orlando, and Evelyn Lynn, R-Daytona Beach, expressed concern.

Florida Senate approves resolution celebrating crisis pregnancy centers

By | 01.18.12 | 11:59 am

The Florida Senate yesterday adopted a resolution sponsored by state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, that makes January 2012 ”Pregnancy Resource Center Month.”

Bipartisan bill to impose regulation on Florida CPCs filed

By | 01.06.12 | 1:07 pm

Two state lawmakers — one Democrat, one Republican — have come together to file legislation that would require pregnancy resource centers, or crisis pregnancy centers, to protect the private medical information of women who visit them.

GOP lawmaker introduces bill protecting women’s access to contraception

By | 12.02.11 | 9:22 am

State Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, has introduced a bill for the upcoming legislative session that would protect a woman’s access to birth control in Florida, stopping any insurance provider from levying steep co-payments for contraception or creating any waiting periods for services.

State senator: GOP-led Legislature wants to regulate women’s bodies, again

By | 12.01.11 | 2:26 pm

In an op-ed for South Florida Sun Sentinel, state Sen. Nan Rich, D-Sunrise, writes that the GOP-led Legislature is yet again focusing on curbing women’s rights, instead of easing the pain of the state’s economic woes.

New bill would charge bottled water companies that pump from Florida springs

By | 11.30.11 | 8:02 am

State Rep. Franklin Sands, D-Weston, has filed a bill to “collect a modest fee from bottled water companies that derive extravagant profits for the privilege of pumping millions of gallons of water daily from Florida’s springs and other water bodies.” Sands’ filing of House Bill 781 comes after public criticism over water bottling giants’ current ability to extract — without charge — water for commercial purposes.

Florida legislators earn high marks from American Conservative Union

By | 11.16.11 | 3:35 pm

Not surprisingly, most of Florida’s GOP-led Legislature received high marks this week from the American Conservative Union, one of the oldest and most influential conservative groups.

One GOP lawmaker’s push for a moratorium on commercial water permits

By | 10.03.11 | 1:11 pm

While intense community organizing and outreach effectively curbed the ability of private entities to withdraw water from the Wacissa River, a state bill filed last month would move to further protect an already strained Florida aquifer from corporate interests.

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