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We Get a Breakdown of New Laws Taking Effect on July, 1st

Roman Pohorecki
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Today marks the beginning of a new fiscal year in Florida government with a nearly $91 billion dollar budget. Today also marks the day when a number of new laws take effect that were passed by elected officials in this year’s annual legislative session. 

The new laws cover a broad spectrum of topics and will impact K-12 students and their families, motorists, patients immigrants and Florida’s agriculture community. We sit down withWGCU’s legislative analyst, John Davis, to get a breakdown of some of these other laws taking effect today, including alaw that makes Florida one of the last states in the nation to make texting while driving a primary offense.

 

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John Davis has been a full-time Reporter/Producer for WGCU since 2009. He is the local host for NPRââââ
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.