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Scott’s legal team comes to defense of state worker drug testing bill
State Rep. Jimmie Smith isn’t an attorney, as House Democratic Leader Ron Saunders pointed out during an “I’m-a-lawyer-and-you’re-not” debate over Smith’s bill that would require random drug testing of...
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House passes random drug tests for state workers
State workers would have to agree to and submit to random, suspicionless drug tests under a measure approved along party lines by the GOP-dominated Florida House. The bill, a priority of Gov. Rick...
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State worker drug testing bill headed to Senate floor
Hours after the House signed off on a measure that would require state workers to submit to drug tests, the Senate Budget Committee sent an identical measure to the floor for a full vote. With Scott’s...
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Drug testing state workers soon to become law
State workers would have to submit to random drug tests after the Senate signed off on a bill pushed by Gov. Rick Scott, certain to sign it into law once it reaches his desk. The Senate overwhelmingly...
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Gov. Scott quietly signs state worker drug testing into law
In less than three months, the state’s 100,000-plus workforce will be subject to random, suspicionless drug testing making Florida the first in the nation to impose the policy. Gov. Rick Scott signed...
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Scott orders agency heads to implement drug-testing law
State agency heads will begin ordering the state’s 100,000-plus workforce to submit to random, suspicionless drug tests, Gov. Rick Scott said today, the day after he signed into law a measure allowing...
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UPDATE: Gov. Scott will hold off on state worker drug tests
Hours after Gov. Rick Scott said agencies under his control would begin drug-testing state workers, his administration issued a memo “clarifying” that the tests won’t begin until a legal battle is...
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Nancy Argenziano drops out of U.S. House race, plans to run for state House...
After failing to convince a judge to let her run in a Big Bend congressional race as a Democrat, former Public Service Commission Chairwoman Nancy Argenziano has switched gears and instead plans to...
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UPDATE: Gov. Scott’s state worker drug testing unconstitutional, federal...
UPDATE: Gov. Rick Scott said he will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that random, suspicionless drug testing of state workers is unconstitutional. “As I have repeatedly explained, I believe that drug...
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Scott takes drug testing of welfare recipients to Supreme Court
Gov. Rick Scott will appeal a federal court ruling upholding a ban on drug testing of Florida welfare recipients. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta found that Scott’s lawyers did not make...
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