Incoming House Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, released a plan Friday that will make changes in committees and subcommittees, including creating an Infrastructure Strategies Committee overseeing issues such as transportation, water quality and flood resilience.
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The plan came as lawmakers prepare to meet Tuesday in an organization session that will include Renner formally becoming speaker. The plan will make a series of changes in subcommittees, such as creating the Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee and the Local Administration, Federal Affairs & Special Districts Subcommittee.
The 2022-24 Florida House committee structure has been designed to carefully vet legislation as it works its way through the process. Each of these committees will play an important role in shaping Florida's future. https://t.co/VAKNNcKWsR
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Incoming House Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, released a plan Friday that will make changes in committees and subcommittees.https://t.co/woznAPrI08
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Disney can speak as much as it wants since it has that right. However they don't have a right to special districts within Florida.
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"Why should Disney be able to govern itself and when their competitors do not. I'm not only in favor of free speech, I'm also in favor of free markets," says Florida State Republican Representative Randy Fine. pic.twitter.com/bBLAeICT5b
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While the House has had a similarly named Local Administration & Veterans Affairs Subcommittee the past two years, the addition of special districts to the name comes after lawmakers decided in April to dissolve the Reedy Creek Improvement District in the Orlando area and five other special districts.
Reedy Creek was created in the 1960s for Walt Disney World and has provided many traditional functions of government. Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed to dissolve Reedy Creek after Walt Disney Co. opposed a controversial education measure that was a DeSantis priority. The dissolution, however, is not scheduled to take effect until June 2023, which means lawmakers in the coming months could decide to re-establish the district or look at alternatives.
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