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Former Jaguars executive Amit Patel's legal problems aren't over, even after pleading guilty to federal charges.
1hon MSN
For the first time during his tenure, Gov. Ron DeSantis allowed three bills to become law without his signature.
Gov. Ron DeSantis last month signed the law (HB 907), which was unanimously passed by the Legislature in April and is dubbed the Sunshine Genetics Act.
A federal judge upheld most of a new Florida law toughening regulations for petition gathering, but ordered that state officials couldn't enforce a provision for some petition groups that prohibited nonresident and noncitizen volunteers from gathering signatures.
A federal judge has blocked a key part of a new law that imposed additional restrictions on the state’s ballot-initiative process, saying a ban on non-Florida residents and non-U.S. citizens collecting and delivering petitions “imposes a severe burden on political expression that the state has failed to justify.
To comply with the law, which is designed to save lives and help avoid crashes, drivers in Florida must do what they’ve been doing for emergency or public service vehicles for nearly 25 years.
2don MSN
More than 150 new Florida laws went into effect on July 1 following a surprisingly contentious legislative session. So far. DeSantis has vetoed 11 bills: HB 11, which would have resolved a local Miami utility rate disputeHB 181,