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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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Fla. Gov. Scott’s interest in tuition crosses the line, some say
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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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Gov. Rick Scott signs 4 bills, vetoes 3 others
Gov. Rick Scott signed four more bills into law this week and vetoed three others.
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FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
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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STATE
Fla. Gov. signs abortion measure and bong ban
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is backing a proposed bong ban and an abortion measure.
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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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STATE
Gov. Scott vetoes immigrant driver license bill
Florida Gov. Rick Scott vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed some young immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to apply for a temporary driver's license.
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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.


