Capitol Update – Nightly During Session – Thursday, May 02, 2019

Capitol Update is daily review of state government during the Legislative Session.

• The full Senate amended then approved the sanctuary cities bill, and the House took it up for consideration.
• State CFO Jimmy Patronis responded to a letter from the League of Cities calling on Governor DeSantis to veto the bill that would provide cancer benefits to firefighters.
• A panel of experts told the Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission that a mysterious disease and other factors have driven Florida’s Atlantic reef to the brink of functional extinction.