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Capital Report: 03-28-2019

Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:28:58
Publish Date: 2019-03-28 17:07:54
Description: Legislators want to close a loophole they say bad actors are exploiting, ultimately leading to insurance rates increasing across the state. A bill heading to the House floor would address the issue. Blaise Gainey reports, lawmakers and the Chief Financial Officer of Florida are now focused on stopping those so-called bad actors. A panel of Florida lawmakers has passed a bill intended to make sure the people behind citizen initiatives to amend the state constitution are Florida citizens. But as Regan McCarthy reports opponents say the measure infringes on free speech and democracy. A committee bill in the Florida house looking to make sweeping changes to the state’s election laws has cleared a key committee stop. Ryan Dailey reports a number of them would modify the state’s vote-by-mail procedure, which sparked a partisan debate about voter access. Florida lawmakers approved a series of new laws last year cracking down on telemarketers. Those laws went into effect last summer, and
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