Florida lawmakers are facing criticism for various legislative moves, including attempts to erase climate change concerns, lift a ban on beef imports from Paraguay, potentially ban CBD, scale back child-labor measures, and relax child labor laws. The bills have sparked bipartisan backlash and concern over worker protections.
Senate committee amends and passes Florida bill relaxing child labor laws https://t.co/Ccy2tKfP3v
Miami-Dade County rejected heat protections for outdoor workers in November. Today, the Florida legislature made sure no local government in the state can create those protections. https://t.co/F0sCVWzjkb
The Biden Administration's attempt to resume beef imports from Paraguay is bad news, plain and simple—so I introduced a bipartisan measure with @SenatorRounds to protect MT producers and consumers and overturn this rule that gives our ranchers a raw deal. Listen for the stakes: https://t.co/uF84OMGyU5
#Florida Senate panel scales back hotly debated child-labor measure https://t.co/NNHk9Rb71Y
BREAKING: Florida House of Representatives’ Infrastructure Strategies Committee has passed a bill to ban “lab-grown meat” products from being sold in the state.
I'm filing a CRA with @SenatorTester that would overturn the Biden administration’s recent decision to lift a long-standing ban on beef imports from Paraguay: https://t.co/yEjoWIp86g
Florida bill revamping child labor laws changes in Senate committee, set for chamber vote Filed by Rep. Linda Chaney https://t.co/Ccy2tKfP3v
Reminder that this is happening because already existing worker shortages in Florida were exacerbated by an anti-immigrant bill passed last year. Now lawmakers are attempting to roll back child labor protections instead of just paying better wages to attract actual adult workers. https://t.co/SuHkaoKL7U
Local governments in Florida were considering enacting heat stress protections for outdoor workers. State lawmakers doing the bidding of corporate special interest groups are now pushing legislation to preempt these life saving protections from being enacted. https://t.co/tMTYgfmmAh
A Florida Senate committee has approved a bill that would allow bosses to schedule 16-year-olds 7 days in a row and up to 8 hours when there's school the next day. There are 80k working 16 and 17-year-olds in FL and just seven state workers who police child labor violations. https://t.co/CvIffSynhj
Biden admin faces bipartisan backlash for allowing beef imports from Paraguay: ‘Cutting corners’ https://t.co/6zgROmaZgK
Florida Senate panel scales back hotly debated child-labor measure https://t.co/w9EirwQy6y https://t.co/iVdJdX4lWn
CBD could be banned in Florida if hemp bill passes, advocates warn https://t.co/3CHWzXAKg7 https://t.co/Y07206SBfH
NEWS—I just introduced my bipartisan CRA resolution with @SenatorRounds to overturn the Biden Administration's attempt to lift a long-standing ban on beef imports from Paraguay. This change is bad news for MT producers & consumers—and I won't let it stand. https://t.co/I5LoBSaMds
Florida must take climate change seriously. Instead, lawmakers want to erase it | Opinion https://t.co/gfFfa837kt