Lobbying and Ethics
Lobbying firms cashed in on the session
by Bill Cotterell - 2 days ago - +
Gov. Scott signs 2nd ethics law
by Bill Cotterell - 3 days ago - +
2013 Session Summary: Ethics and Elections
by LobbyTools - 1 week ago - +
Legislature adjourns 2013 session
by Bill Cotterell - 2 weeks ago - +
Scott signs election and ethics laws, vetoes alimony plan
by Bill Cotterell - 2 weeks ago - +
LobbyTools is seeking talent
by LobbyTools - 2 weeks ago - +
A star is born when the House bill auto-reader is switched on
by Bruce Ritchie - 2 weeks ago - +
Week in Review for April 26
by Florida Current Staff - 3 weeks ago - +
Ethics, campaign-finance bills move through legislature
by Bill Cotterell - 3 weeks ago - +
Late in session, Gov. Scott makes aggressive push for agenda
by Gray Rohrer - 3 weeks ago - +
The Week in Review for April 19
by Florida Current Staff - 4 weeks ago - +
FMA, HCA Florida team up in Tallahassee
by Florida Current Staff - 4 weeks ago - +
Latvala accuses Sachs of faking her voting address
by Bill Cotterell - 4 weeks ago - +
The Week in Review for April 5
by Florida Current Staff - 6 weeks ago - +
Paella for the masses
by Bill Cotterell - 6 weeks ago - +
Senate panel votes to relax gift ban
by Bill Cotterell - 6 weeks ago - +
The Week in Review for March 29
by Florida Current Staff - 2 months ago - +
Nelson shrugs off talk of governor's race
by Bill Cotterell - 2 months ago - +
Week in Review for March 18 to March 22
by Florida Current Staff - 2 months ago - +
Abrams, Rodriguez join Ballard Partners
by Bill Cotterell - 2 months ago - +
2013 Session Summaries
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Legislators wanted to fix last year's problems at the polls, improve their own ethical image. It took a while, but they got three big bills enacted.
Sixty days of debate, argument, agreement and compromise end with the drop of two handkerchiefs in the Capitol rotunda to signal the completion of the 2013 legislative session.
Integrity Florida says the two new laws are a big step forward. Meanwhile, Rep. Ritch Workman says he may ask the House to override the governor's veto of SB 718, which would have eliminated permanent alimony and imposed other changes.
@HouseAutoReader on Twitter engages legislators, reporters and staff as House procedural moves require bills to be read in full.
This week we learned that House Speaker Will Weatherford says if state employee pension changes aren't approved this year, they will come back again, and that Gov. Rick Scott is on the lookout for lawmakers' special projects as he advocates for his priorities.
A bit of gamesmanship could be at work to avoid Gov. Rick Scott's veto pen, a notion that Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford shrugged off during a news conference.
Gov. Rick Scott is making veiled veto threats of top House and Senate priorities such as ethics and elections bills as it looks increasingly unlikely that lawmakers will approve his top priorities of an across-the-board pay raise for teachers and a manufacturing tax cut.
"False swearing is a crime," Senate Ethics and Elections Committee Chairman Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, said Monday during a Senate confirmation committee meeting as he quizzed a friend of Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, about her living arrangements.