Appellate court allows Florida to enforce gender-affirming care ban
WEBAug 26, 2024 · Florida can enforce its law banning gender-affirming care for minors and restrictions on adults pending appeal of a federal court ruling that the ban is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit sided with Florida in allowing the state’s ban on hormone replacement therapy for …
Appellate court rules the state can continue to enforce 15-week ...
WEBJul 21, 2022 · A split state appeals court has refused to reinstate a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban, meaning Florida’s 15-week abortion ban remains in effect. In a ruling handed down after 5 p.m. on Thursday, the First District Court of Appeal also rejected the state’s request to send the dispute ...
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WEBSep 23, 2024 · Florida faces $40M in fines for failing to submit Medicaid reports. BY: Christine Sexton and Jackie Llanos - September 20, 2024. Florida could be forced to pay $40 million in fines to the federal government over its handling of the state’s Medicaid program. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Director of State …
Amendment 5 would lower taxes on homeowners, but others …
WEBMay 17, 2024 · Florida provides an exemption from property taxes for the first $25,000 of the assessed value of a homestead, meaning a building where the taxpayer lives. There’s a second exemption of $25,000 of assessed value over $50,000, except for school taxes — in other words, on values between $50,000 and $75,000.
On Medicare’s 59th birthday, FL-Dems again hit Rick Scott on the …
WEBJul 30, 2024 · The Florida Democratic Party held a zoom conference call on Tuesday to slam GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s 2022 declaration that he intended to “sunset” all federal programs every five years, including Medicare — even though the Florida Republican reversed that stance more than a year ago. Marking the 59th anniversary of the day …
Some foreign-trained physicians could skip residency to practice ...
WEBJan 12, 2024 · One of the ways the Florida Senate’s ‘Live Healthy’ initiative could increase the supply of doctors is by creating another licensure pathway for physicians trained outside of the U.S. As lawmakers started looking into the state of Florida’s healthcare workforce ahead of this year’s legislative session, it became apparent that physicians would not be …
FL Senate key primary results: House reps win nominations to the …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Republican state Rep. Tom Leek via Florida House. State Rep. Tom Leek won the Republican primary for northeast Florida Senate District 7 with 47.36% of the votes as of the time of publishing, defeating Trump-backed former St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar and conservative activist Gerry James. This open seat garnered attention during …
After a scathing report on sexual abuse at FL's female prison in …
WEBTwo years after a Dec. 22, 2020 report revealed “notorious acts of sexual abuse, including rape, against prisoners” at the state’s largest and oldest women’s prison, federal officials made a return visit last week at Florida’s Lowell Correctional Institution to see if conditions have improved.. The answer was no, according to prisoner rights advocates and …
Lawmakers hear report that says path of Florida’s prison system is ...
WEBNov 15, 2023 · Florida lawmakers in recent years have increased the starting salaries of corrections officers as a way of retaining them, going from a base salary of $33,500 in 2020 to $45,760 as of this past July. The staff turnover rate in the corrections system is 26.3%, according to the report. The very first slide presented by the KPMG staff to the ...