Jim Saunders - News Service of Florida
Jim Saunders is the Executive Editor of The News Service Of Florida.
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Plaintiffs are challenging a rule from the state Agency for Health Care Administration that prevents Medicaid reimbursements to health providers who render gender dysphoria care.
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A coalition of groups wants to pass a constitutional amendment ensuring abortion rights in Florida.
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HB 1521 is aimed at requiring people to use bathrooms that line up with their sex assigned at birth. Rep. Cyndi Stevenson, R-St. Johns, voted against it.
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Attorneys for abortion clinics and a doctor filed a brief urging the state's high court to block a 2022 law that prevented abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. A new six-week ban depends on the ruling.
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Lawmakers hope the bill will ultimately lead to the U.S. Supreme Court reversing a 2008 decision that barred the death penalty for people who rape children.
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State insurance regulators last week signed off on a plan that will lead to policyholders throughout Florida paying extra on their bills because of property-insurer insolvencies.
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The Legislature gave final approval to a bill that would eliminate a requirement for unanimous jury recommendations before judges can impose death sentences.
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Moving quickly on what supporters call the “Heartbeat Protection Act,” Gov. Ron DeSantis late Thursday signed a bill that would prevent abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
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Louis Gaskin became the 101st person executed in Florida since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. He had been sentenced to death for the murder of a north Florida couple in 1989.
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Republican Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona, compared transgender people to "mutants" as the Florida House prepares to take up a bill that would prevent transgender men and women from using bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth,