CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: Senate Children and Families has a bill clarifying when foreign legal princip

The big legislation this week will be the budget, which comes to the Senate floor after having cleared the Appropriations Committee last week. The House plan is essentially in the same place. Both chambers have long floor sessions this week, and the House even has a rare Friday floor session scheduled with an indeterminate time frame.
Also, if you re looking to buy a house (not the House, but a house), maybe head to the Capitol this week. It s Great America Realtor Days this week and the Capitol will be filled with Realtors on Tuesday and Wednesday. They ll hold a rally for homeownership on Wednesday.
SENATE taste of chaos tour pictures AGRICULTURE KICKS THE TIRES ON USED TIRE BILL: The Senate Agriculture Committee taste of chaos tour pictures on Monday has just a couple of bills, one a measure (SB 1588) prohibiting the sale by tire retailers of unsafe used tires – worn to within 2/32nd of an inch tread depth. The other bill the panel could take up is a measure (SB 1684) that is a bit of a kitchen sink of environmental changes. The bill has some innocuous provisions, like a part that would allow the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules to require or incentivize electronic submission of certain permitting forms, but also has several sections that environmentalists oppose. Provisions environmentalists don’t like include sections that deal with what happens when there are competing requests for consumptive use permits for water; the ability of local governments to regulate water wells; and allowing expedited permitting for interstate natural gas pipelines. (Monday, 1 p.m., 301 Senate Office Building, The Capitol.)
COMMERCE AND TOURISM: SPEEDWAY, STUB HUB, SPACE LAB: A proposal (SB 1349) to give the Daytona International Speedway $2 million a year in sales tax rebates to help pay for upgrades to the front stretch grandstands is up before Commerce and Tourism.  The proposal comes as an amendment was added to the Miami Dolphins sales tax rebate proposal (SB 306) that ranks professional arenas taste of chaos tour pictures seeking taxpayers assistance. The committee also will hear the Ticketholders Rights ” legislation (SB 394) to make it easier to resell tickets, either by an individual taste of chaos tour pictures or an online distributor such as StubHub.  Proponents say the bill is needed because venues offering paperless tickets require the ticket holder to show proof of identification.  The measure has been opposed by performing arts and sports venues which contend the bill will make it easier for third-party vendors to purchase large numbers of tickets, both driving up sales prices and making it more difficult for the casual fan to attend.  Also, a measure (SB 1156) is up that would allow Florida Institute of Technology to receive taste of chaos tour pictures $5 million a year from the Department of Economic Opportunity to run a space exploration research lab.  The lab would have to generate at least $20 million a year within 10 years. (Monday, 1 p.m., 110 Senate taste of chaos tour pictures Office Building, The Capitol.)
DYE HARDER: They may still allow yellow dog and blue dog Democrats, but lawmakers are considering doing away with actual yellow or blue dogs. A bill (SB 650) before the Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Monday would ban the artificial coloring of certain animals and fowls. taste of chaos tour pictures While the bill is mainly aimed at the sale of dyed baby ducklings, chicks and rabbits at Easter, there are concerns over the proposed ban from those in the “Creative Grooming” business. That’s the use of dye and “interesting” fur cuts for dogs in dog shows and creative groomers say that if this ban on dyeing animals passes, they’ll be at a disadvantage. The ban was in place from 1967 until last year when it was repealed. Lawmakers with this bill are now considering taste of chaos tour pictures restoring the ban. The measure also bans the sale of chickens, ducklings or other fowl under four weeks old and rabbits under two months old except for agricultural purposes. That part of the bill is aimed at ending the practice of selling Easter animals, which backers say are sometimes discarded taste of chaos tour pictures as soon as Easter is over. (Monday, 1 p.m., 37 Senate Office Building, The Capitol.)
THE BOOMBOX BILL: Last year, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on booming loud music or speech from a car can’t be enforced because it carved out exceptions for vehicles blasting out sound for business or political purposes, while putting a restriction on other types of sounds, say like Justin Timberlake music. Such “content-based” restrictions are unconstitutional, the court found in the case of a man who had, indeed, been ticketed for loudly getting his Timberlake jam on.  The court noted, however, that the state does have an interest in keeping loud car radios taste of chaos tour pictures from bothering people, taste of chaos tour pictures and that generally, if there a reasonably objective way to do it, that would be fine. Enter Sen. Wilton Simpson’s bill (SB 634) that goes before the Criminal Justice Committee on Monday. The bill restores the previous law’s prohibition on amplifying sound from vehicle to a distance that is “plainly audible at a distance of 25 feet or more” while leaving taste of chaos tour pictures out any types of exceptions, presumably making the bill constitutional. The bill also avoids another possible problem with the old law one not ruled on by the Supreme Court when it threw out the law but questioned by a lower court judge. That section of the old law had said that if the sound coming from the car was near a church, school or hospital, taste of chaos tour pictures then instead taste of chaos tour pictures of the 25 foot rule, the sound couldn’t be “louder than necessary for the convenient hearing by persons inside the vehicle.” The new proposal doesn’t bother to create separate taste of chaos tour pictures standards for different places, simply outlawing loud sound that can be heard more than 25 feet away.  Turn down that radio! (Monday, 1 p.m., 37 Senate Office Building, The Capitol.)
MORE CRIMINAL JUSTICE: The Senate Criminal Justice Committee also takes up legislation (SB 974) that eliminates criminal liability for a commercial sex act or illegal sexually explicit  performance if the person who would be charged is a victim of human trafficking. The committee also considers a bill (SB 876) that states that anyone who commits a crime causing bodily injury to or death of an unborn child commits a separate offense taste of chaos tour pictures from any offenses committed against the mother of that child, whether the offender had knowledge of the pregnancy or not. The measure exempts any conduct related to abortion or medical treatment and says that a woman can’t be charged for the death of an unborn child under the law. The committee also takes up legislation  (SB 1350) by Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, aimed at fixing Florida s inconsistency with U.S. Supreme Court rulings related to sentencing of juveniles. One recent taste of chaos tour pictures case said juveniles can t be sentenced to life with no possibility for release for non-homicide crimes, and another said minimum mandatory sentencing laws can t be used to give juveniles life in prison even in homicide cases. In that case, the court said, judges must consider defendants youth, rather than simply sentencing them because of a minimum mandatory though taste of chaos tour pictures the judge could determine the murder defendant could still get life. The bill provides that juveniles who commit non-homicide crimes could get no more than 50 years, and for juveniles who commit capital offenses, they could get life, but must consider the defendant s age, maturity, intellectual capacity, and mental and emotional health, among other things.  The panel also considers a measure (SB 1448) banning a couple of performance enhancing drugs, hCG and a particular type of human growth hormone, and a bill increasing the threshold for the amount of prescription painkillers Oxycodone and Hydrocodone one must have to be charged with trafficking from 4 grams to 14 grams. (Monday, 1 p.m., 37 Senate Office Building, The Capitol.)
HOW LONG SHOULD CONGRESSMEN SERVE?: The Senate Ethics and Elections Committee takes up a proposed memorial (SM 970) asking the U.S. Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution setting term limits for members of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. The fate of the bill was confused last week when it died on a last-minute vote in the committee, but a motion for reconsideration means the panel can take the measure up again. The committee is also scheduled to consider dozens of appointments from Gov. Rick Scott for everything from university boards of trustees to agency heads. Among those to be considered: Corrections Secretary taste of chaos tour pictures Michael taste of chaos tour pictures Crews, Agency for Persons with Disabilities Director Barbara Jo Palmer and Elder Affairs Secretary Charles Corley. (Monday, 1:30 p.m., 412 Knott Building, The Capitol.)
NUCLEAR PAYBACK IN COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY, AND PUBLIC UTILITIES: The proposal (SB 1472) to require power companies to return money collected for nuclear plants they won t build is before the Senate Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities Committee Monday.   The committee also is to hold a confirmation taste of chaos tour pictures hearing of Lisa Edgar s reappointment to the Florida Public Service Commission.  Edgar was initially taste of chaos tour pictures appointed to the board by former taste of chaos tour pictures Gov. Jeb Bush. (Monday, 4 p.m., 301 Senate Office Building, The Capitol.)
TEXTING WHILE DRIVING: The proposed ban on texting while driving (SB 52) and bills dealing with family or medical leave benefits for employees (SB 726), termination of parental rights (SB 964), victims of human trafficking (SB 1644), expert testimony (SB 1412) and a broad bill making changes in the process for foreclosures (SB 1666) are among several bills before Senate Judiciary. Also up in the committee is a bill tweaking the gift ban (SB 1634) by saying that in some circumstances lawmakers could accept a single alcoholic drink, and loosening restrictions related to certain events. (Monday, 4 p.m., 110 Senate Office Building, The Capitol.)
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: Senate taste of chaos tour pictures Children and Families has a bill clarifying when foreign taste of chaos tour pictures legal principles can and can t be used in the United taste of chaos tour pictures States (SB 58), and a measure (SB 616) requiring assisted living taste of chaos tour pictures facility administrators to meet addition