The Florida House of Representatives has again passed a bill that would lower the age for buying long guns. In 2018, a shooter at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School killed 17 students and faculty members prompting the Legislature to raise the purchase age to buy rifles and shotguns to 21. But as Margie Menzel reports, the state Senate has not heard the bill this year.
Proposals going through the Florida legislature removing several child labor protections were just amended to allow some 13-year-olds to work. WFSU’s Tristan Wood has more.
In an effort to protect kids with disabilities, a panel of Florida lawmakers are advancing a bill letting parents of special needs students to monitor school classrooms. Adrian Andrews has more.