Florida Legislature is down to deal-making days of session
Republican leaders are employing the politics of leverage, trading one leadership priority for another to get their pet projects across the finish line.
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The Capitol in Tallahassee is seen following Opening Day of the Florida Legislature on March 3. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ]
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TALLAHASSEE For more than eight hours on April 9, the Senate Appropriations Committee met to discuss a single piece of legislation and was prepared to extend the meeting into the next day, a Saturday, if needed.
It was the Senateâs turn to take up House Bill 1, the most controversial bill of the 2021 legislative session and a top priority of both Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Chris Sprowls.
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On Tuesday, April 6, the Florida Senate Rules Committee substantively amended Senate Bill 1734, which would create the “Florida Privacy Protection Act.” This is the Senate version of the dueling Florida House and Senate measures to bring California-like consumer data privacy protection to Florida. The Florida Privacy Protection Act would grant Florida consumers the ability to share personal information as they wish, including opting out of a business’s sale of their personal information. Both the House and Senate versions would require companies to notify consumers of their privacy rights, and to enact internal controls that would permit those companies to delete or correct personal information collected upon a consumer’s request.
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TALLAHASSEE â In an attempt to âput consumers in the driverâs seatâ of their data privacy, Florida legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers and sell it to data brokers.
Modeled after a California law that last year became the strongest data privacy law in the country, SB 1734 creates the Florida Privacy Protection Act and requires businesses to tell consumers what information theyâve collected and how theyâre going to use it. The bill requires any company that collects and sells consumer information to establish a button on its website to allow consumers to opt out of allowing the company to sell the information
California-style data privacy law gets bipartisan support in Florida Legislature Mary Ellen Klas, The Miami Herald
Apr. 7 TALLAHASSEE In an attempt to put consumers in the driver s seat of their data privacy, Florida legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers and sell it to data brokers.
Modeled after a California law that last year became the strongest data privacy law in the country, SB 1734 creates the Florida Privacy Protection Act and requires businesses to tell consumers what information they ve collected and how they re going to use it. The bill requires any company that collects and sells consumer information to establish a button on its website to allow consumers to opt out of allowing the company to sell the information it has collected about them.
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