After debating whether county school board members should be paid, and if ending salaries would threaten diversity on the boards, a House panel took a first step Friday toward letting voters decide the issue in 2022.
Capitol Watch for Friday, March 12 Florida lawmakers began a 60-day session March 2. (Source: News Service of Florida) By ABC7 Staff | March 12, 2021 at 6:29 AM EST - Updated March 12 at 6:29 AM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WWSB) - Florida Senate and House committees will be taking up the following bills on Friday, March 12:
FIREFIGHTER PROTECTIONS SOUGHT: The House Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee will take up a bill (HB 313), filed by Rep. Demi Busatta Cabrera, R-Coral Gables, and Rep. Joe Casello, D-Boynton Beach, that would extend what is known as the Firefighters’ Bill of Rights to help protect firefighters during informal inquiries into alleged misconduct. (9:30 a.m., 404 House Office Building, the Capitol.)
The Republican-controlled House Secondary Education & Career Development Subcommittee, in an 11-6 party-line vote, approved a measure (HJR 1461) that would place a proposed constitutional amendment on next year’s ballot about whether to continue paying school board members.
“Florida’s system of compensating school board members with salaries and benefits, to the extent that we do, is a national outlier,” said Rep. Sam Garrison.