10 Things Gov. Ron DeSantis Wants From 2022 Legislative Session

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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) — Gov. Ron DeSantis precocious released a $99.7 cardinal fund blueprint for the 2022 legislative league and has touted a bid of different proposals. Here are 10 of DeSantis’ priorities — large and tiny — for the session, which volition commencement Jan. 11:

— CRYPTOCURRENCY: DeSantis has requested $700,000 for cryptocurrency projects astatine the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the Agency for Health Care Administration and the Department of Financial Services. For example, a aviator programme would let radical to wage for motor-vehicle rubric certificates done Blockchain exertion astatine the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

— ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT: DeSantis is seeking $5.7 cardinal for a 52-person Office of Election Crimes and Security wrong the Department of State to analyse and prosecute election-related crimes.

— FLORIDA STATE GUARD: DeSantis has requested $5.4 cardinal to re-establish a 200-member Florida State Guard, which was a defence unit acceptable up during World War II to regenerate Florida National Guard members who were deployed abroad. It would beryllium utilized to assistance the National Guard during emergencies.

— FREEDOM TOWER: DeSantis has requested $25 cardinal to reconstruct Miami’s Freedom Tower, which was utilized successful the past to process Cuban refugees. Legislative proposals person already been filed for the enactment connected the astir 100-year-old building.

— GAS TAX CUT: DeSantis wants to suspend the state’s 25-cent-a-gallon taxation connected gasoline for 5 months, starting July 1. The authorities would usage $1 cardinal successful national stimulus wealth to marque up for the mislaid money, arsenic state taxes spell toward proscription projects.

— HIRING AND KEEPING COPS: DeSantis wants summation wage for officers astatine the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, supply a 2nd circular of $1,000 bonuses for archetypal responders and supply $5,000 bonuses to assistance enlistee law-enforcement officers to Florida.

— IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN: DeSantis has requested $8 cardinal to transport undocumented immigrants retired of state, portion calling connected legislators to grow a 2019 instrumentality targeting alleged “sanctuary cities” and a 2020 instrumentality that requires each authorities employers and immoderate contractors to usage a national physics strategy known arsenic E-Verify to cheque the migration presumption of caller workers.

— SNAKE HUNT: DeSantis wants $3 cardinal arsenic portion of the state’s efforts to region invasive Burmese pythons, which endanger wildlife and ecosystems successful the Everglades.

— TEACHER BONUSES: DeSantis wants to usage $238 cardinal successful national stimulus wealth to springiness a 2nd circular of $1,000 bonuses to teachers and principals successful an effort to clasp educators amid an ongoing teacher shortage.

— TESTING OVERHAUL: DeSantis wants to walk $15.5 cardinal to transportation retired a program that would regenerate the statewide standardized tests known arsenic the Florida Standards Assessments with a progress-monitoring system.

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