preemption

The Florida Senate could quickly pass a proposal that would require local governments to suspend enforcement of ordinances while lawsuits play out.

The bill, dubbed by critics as the "the preemption bill to end all preemption bills" would have allowed businesses to sue cities and counties if their profits plummeted by more than 15 percent because of actions taken by municipalities.

Backers say it would eliminate the need for the state government to enact any more preemption bills. This bill could cost local governments more than $900 million annually.

From the coronavirus pandemic, standardized testing schools and the environment, here are some issues that the legislature will take up this year.

If communities wanted new buildings to have electricity power them and not natural gas, clean-energy advocate Susan Glickman says Senate Bill 1128 would preempt that choice.

The systemic draining of local control is about politics — and it's about money.

How much say should local governments have in passing regulations? That’s been a battle going back years in the legislature. Now, lawmakers are again...

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office this week urged a circuit judge to dismiss a challenge to a law that imposes strict penalties on local governments...

Less than two months after a 19-year-old gunman shot dead 14 students and three faculty members at a Broward County high school, city and county...

This week on Florida Matters we visit the office of St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman to talk about his second term in office, which began about a month…

This week on Florida Matters we visit the office of St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman to talk about his second term in office, which began about a month…