News Archive
Senator Siplin on Employment... 2/11/11
WatchSenator Siplin's on Agriculture and Oil... 2/7/11
Watch"Get sensitive to the census..." 1/15/11
WatchSenator Siplin on Florida's Budget... 1/16/2011
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Voter Rights
- "State Sen. Gary Siplin attended the meeting and said he would continue to make voting rights a priority, as he did from 2000 to 2007, when Gov. Charlie Crist cut the paperwork for rights restoration..."
Utility Security
- Senate Bill 1572: "Prohibits any utility from terminating a senior citizen's or low-income family's gas or electric service for nonpayment on any day, or on the following 2 calendar days..."
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Healthy Kids
- The "Healthy Schools for Healthy Lives Act, [is] a bill intended to expand school access to Florida's fresh fruits and vegetable by moving school nutrition programs to the Florida Department of Agriculture..."
Saggy Pants
- "Legislation that will prohibit students from wearing clothing that exposes their undergarments or that indecently exposes their body parts while at school could soon become the law in Florida."
Victories for our Community
From the funds in Specific Appropriation 434, $500,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is provided to the Health Care Center for the Homeless, Inc., to serve homeless and uninsured residents in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties.
From the funds provided in Specific Appropriation 2006 from the Employment Security Administration Trust Fund... $1,000,000 shall be used by each of the three regional workforce boards to provide competitively-procured contracts for the purpose of providing year-round youth services to eligible low-income youth from disadvantaged neighborhoods.
A portion of the funds in Specific Appropriation 2949 shall be allocated as follows: Town of Eatonville Historic Preservation... $100,000.