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Gov. Rick Scott signs 4 bills, vetoes 3 others
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Fla. gets final OK for Medicaid privatization
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Fla. Gov. Scott signs bill to enforce federal cell phone ban for interstate truckers, bus drivers
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office quiet as report names top educator as lieutenant governor candidate
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Hundreds of Florida state prison staffers owed comp time, back pay
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Fla. legislative leaders hit the road again
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Poll: Florida voters not happy with Tallahassee, give Gov. Rick Scott and Legislature low marks
Whatever the reason, the latest Quinnipiac University poll sends the signal that Florida voters are not happy with Tallahassee these days -- not that they really ever are.
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Critics: Gov. Scott tuition battle crosses line
Gov. Rick Scott is trying to get colleges and universities to give up their 1.7 percenjt tuition increase but it's a slow go fraught with the answer no.
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Florida receives final permission to privatize Medicaid
It's just a formality since the deal was announced months ago, but today Florida officially received the waiver it needs to privatize Medicaid.
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Fla. Gov. Scott’s interest in tuition crosses the line, some say
Seeking to offset an automatic 1.7 percent tuition increase, Gov. Rick Scott is meeting with university leaders one by one and lobbying them to cut tuition rates by an equal amount next year.
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Gov. Scott trades up on new jet
Gov. Rick Scott buys a new multimillion-dollar jet.
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FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
Florida Gov. Scott to decide on signing, vetoing bills affecting consumers
Gov. Rick Scott, who often cites his concern for middle-class families, must soon decide whether to sign several bills that consumer activists say would make things worse for working people in Florida.
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FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
Gov. Scott calls federal health law a disaster
It sounds like Republican Gov. Rick Scott is reverting back to his old talking points criticizing the federal health law, after he told a Pensacola radio station Wednesday the law is a "disaster." His comments come a month after the state Legislative session ended without expanding Medicaid - a ...
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FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
New laws on human trafficking will aide Manatee-Sarasota agencies as they form task force
Gov. Rick Scott signed two bills into law to aide in protecting victims of human trafficking.
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FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
State pension squeeze to hit all 67 counties hard
A bill passed in the waning moments of the 2013 legislative session with little discussion and signed two weeks later by Gov. Rick Scott will cost state and local governments almost $900 million in additional expenses next year, hitting county governments especially hard as they struggle to emerge...
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BUSINESS
Fla. Gov. Scott signs Citizens Insurance reform bill, blasts company in sharp-tongued letter
Gov. Rick Scott wasted no time signing a bill to reform Citizens Property Insurance Corp., which has seen a whirlwind of criticism since it approved a special $52 million deal for an upstart company with ties to top politicians last week.
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FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
Rick Scott signs texting-while-driving ban, but does it have teeth?
Gov. Rick Scott just made Florida the 40th state to ban texting while driving by signing SB 52.
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SPORTS
Concerns raised about Florida baseball spring training free-for-all
Florida has a new fiscal game plan to keep its spring training lineup of baseball teams from jumping to the Cactus League in Arizona.
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ELECTIONS
Gov. Rick Scott signs elections bill to fix long voter lines
Gov. Rick Scott has finished the fix of the flawed election law that relegated Florida to a late-night joke in 2012 by signing an elections clean-up bill passed on the final day of the legislative session.
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