Hello and welcome to Tuesday.
Check the calendar It’s the start of hurricane season. It’s also likely the official start of Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried’s campaign for governor (unless this has been one drawn-out head fake.)
But let’s start with this Is Gov. Ron DeSantis about to come up with a carve out for cruise lines to get the industry back up and running in Florida?
What’s he has been saying DeSantis has been adamant for months that A) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules that shuttered the cruise industry were wrong, and B) Businesses should not be able to require proof of vaccination for their customers or patrons. Florida has sued to try to remove the current CDC rules that have prevented cruise lines from resuming operations in the United States. That case is now in mediation. (It was supposed to wrap up last week but court files show the mediation session will continue on Tuesday.)
Will repealing Florida s No Fault law raise insurance rates? Opinion is divided By Mitch Perry Florida
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What You Need To Know
A measure (SB 54) repeals the state’s “no fault” insurance laws
GOP state Sen. Jeff Brandes hopes that Gov. Ron DeSantis will veto it
Tampa attorney Dale Swope says that more than 80% of Florida motorists currently already have bodily liability insurance
That’s at least one thing that advocates and opponents of the recently passed legislation overhauling Florida’s auto insurance laws can agree on.
The measure (SB 54) repeals the state’s “no fault” insurance laws and the requirement that motorists must purchase personal injury protection (PIP) insurance, and instead now requires every motorist to carry bodily liability coverage of at least $25,000 – a provision that is already the law in 48 states.
Florida TaxWatch takes aim at state budget turkeys
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In a sign of how Florida’s economic outlook has changed over the past year, Florida TaxWatch isn’t emphatically calling for Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto all of the “turkeys” it has identified in a record spending plan passed by lawmakers.
With the surprisingly flush $101.5 billion budget proposal expected to formally go to DeSantis soon, TaxWatch President Dominic Calabro said Monday the 116 turkeys on his group’s annual list are “strong suggestions” for vetoes. The turkeys, a Tallahassee term for questionable spending items, total $157.5 million.
Last year, as the state’s economy was hammered by the COVID-19 pandemic, TaxWatch argued for the governor to cut everything on its list of 180 projects that made the budget. Generally, turkeys are projects put into the budget without proper public oversight or that exceed publicly proposed amounts.
/ Florida TaxWatch President Dominic Calabro said the 116 turkeys on his group’s annual list are “strong suggestions” for vetoes. The turkeys, a Tallahassee term for questionable spending items, total $157.5 million.
They include several in the greater Tampa Bay region, including $25 million for the Pasco-Hernando State College Center for Student Success and Community Engagement.
In a sign of how Florida’s economic outlook has changed over the past year, Florida TaxWatch isn’t emphatically calling for Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto all of the “turkeys” it has identified in a record spending plan passed by lawmakers.
With the surprisingly flush $101.5 billion budget proposal expected to formally go to DeSantis soon, TaxWatch President Dominic Calabro said Monday the 116 turkeys on his group’s annual list are “strong suggestions” for vetoes. The turkeys, a Tallahassee term for questionable spending items, total $157.5 million.
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