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At their assembly at present, Leon County Commissioners authorized the 2020 Florida Legislative Session Final Report. In addition they prolonged the County’s state and federal lobbying contracts.
The 2020 Florida Legislative Session ran from Jan. 14 to March 19. The Legislative Session Final Report particulars laws which will affect Leon County’s price range.
The report contains appropriation requests submitted by Leon County earlier than the 2020 session. Initially, two of the County’s priorities had been added to the Legislature’s adopted price range: $325,000 in funding for the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Community and $100,000 in funding for the Leon Works Expo and Junior Apprenticeship. The governor later vetoed the Leon Works request.
The report additionally contains laws handed throughout the 2020 session that pertains to Leon County’s coverage priorities.
Home Invoice 5001, “Safety of the State Workforce,” features a 3% pay increase for state staff and was one of many County Fee’s high priorities for 2020.
Senate Invoice 1050 will increase the variety of state staff who can take volunteer depart throughout a catastrophe by increasing the Florida Catastrophe Volunteer Go away Act to incorporate any tax-exempt nonprofit group reasonably than the American Pink Cross solely.
Home Invoice 1005 permits unbiased computerized tabulating tools for use throughout vote recounts. Workers reviews that the invoice will velocity up guide recounts by permitting for counting both the bodily paper ballots or digital photographs of the ballots.
Home Invoice 733 and Senate Invoice 802 extinguish “discriminatory restrictions” from recorded title transactions like deeds.
Senate Invoice 810, which has not but been signed by the governor, would require vape outlets to get “restricted” tobacco retail permits.
The Commissioners additionally authorized extending two present lobbying contracts.
“The County’s present state lobbying contract with Capitol Alliance Group is for $70,000 yearly and is about to run out on September 30, 2020. On the federal stage, the County’s present lobbying contract with Squire Patton Boggs is for $100,000 and is about to run out on December 31, 2020,” workers reviews.
The County Administrator can lengthen each contracts for another 12 months.
A workshop on 2021 State and Federal Legislative Priorities is scheduled for Oct. 27, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.
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