Tallahassee, FL - Florida lawmakers have a slew of bills up for discussion in Tallahassee, including legislation for smoking bans, nursing home staff, net metering, and more. Smoking Ban On the Senate floor, lawmakers will discuss a companion bill to H.
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Democratic lawmakers are pushing back against a proposal to permanently reallocate dollars away from affordable housing programs, they say need to be fully funded.
The Florida Legislature has passed a measure meant to permanently reallocate funds from the state s affordable housing programs to help pay for the governor s environmental initiatives. But a compromise will cap future sweeps of the affordable housing fund.
An initial proposal would have taken about two-thirds of the dollars typically allocated for state and local government housing projects and reallocated the money for environmental spending. A new plan returns some of those affordable housing funds leaving the programs with a minimum of $200 million rather than the initially proposed $141 million. Sen. Ben Albritton (R-Bartow) sponsored the change.