Florida News That Impacts You – April 14th, 2025

Your daily recap of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you throughout the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast.    

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
From West Palm Beach to Tallahassee.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is Florida's news that impacts you on the Brian Mudshow. Yeah,
Brian Buddy and Joe Malkin with you. And one of
the stories that started to pop up about mid last
week and has gained some momentum entering this week is this.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Florida Governor Rohm de Santas says there was nothing wrong
with the state's Agency for Healthcare Administration donating ten million
dollars to the charity Hope Florida, which is an initiative
founded by his wife, Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis. The
funds come from a nearly seventy million dollars settlement between
the state agency and Senteen Corporation involving overpayments to pharmacy

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benefit managers, part of the state's effort to clean up
healthcare costs.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
So what's going on. You have the allegation out there
by some that about ten million dollars was misappropriated from
Hope Florida, redirected for political causes, and really donations that
were brought to Hope Florida under the strong arm of
the DeSantis administration. The cloud here is also said to

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be part of the reason that maybe Casey DeSantis has
not announced a bit for governor. That's speculation. You have
House Speaker Daniel Prez that is saying that they want
a full investigation and that could include subpoenas and everything else.
Daniel Prez. Of course, Bennet odds with Governor d Santis
ever since becoming Florida House Speaker. By the way, Matt
Gates is also in the middle of this as well.

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He is an interest, it looks like in running for
Attorney General, and people are wondering, Okay, what skates can
to move going to be It's like ag is the
race that he's going to be targeting. So we shallsey.
As for a SAT legislative session moves into its final
three weeks, six bills have cleared the Florida Legislature and
our on Governor de Santis' desk for consideration. The six
bills are peer Support for First Responders, which would expand

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the definition of first responders to include correctional officers, Electronic
transmittal of court orders which would require courts and with
related risk protection orders, the Baker Act Marchman Act to
be electronically communicated to law enforcement within six hours of
being issued. You have the Designation of the Golf of
Mexico Bill that would formally recognize the Golf of America

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instead of the Golf of Mexico. Related the Golf of
America Bill, which would require all state resources that currently
reference the Golf of Mexico to be changed to the
thoroughly recognized name of Golf of America. You have the
Pet Insurance and Wellness Programs Bill, which would require greater
transparency from pet insurance companies about what is and isn't covered,
along with the ability for policy holders to return insurance

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policies within a short timeframe, and also prevents mandatory medical
exams for pets to be to be considered for policy renewals. Also,
the Trust Fund bills passed, which would re establish the
Resilient Florida Trust Fund within the Department of Environmental Protection.
The governor has until the eighteenth eighteenth to sign those

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six bills in law or to veto them. Related. This
week figures to be the busiest week of the state
legislative session, with dozens of bills potentially set to clear
both bodies of the state legislature. Florida Atlantic University, the
University of Florida, and University of South Florida have submitted
their paperwork to opt into ICE's two eighty seven g
program for combating illegal immigration. Under the plan, campus security

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personnel will be deputized to carry out immigration related services
on behalf of VICE. All three universities cited compliance with
state law as the reason, of course that mandatory participation
part of legislation passed during a special session prior to
the start of the state regular session. Sunday and warm today.
Highs in the low eighties, pretty typical for this date.
We can expect similar weather throughout the week. Should be

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really nice, and gas prices been telling you that they
would continue to come down. They did through the weekend.
They fill another nine cents per gallon over the weekend.
They are nine cents lower than a week ago at
the average price four regular unleaded state wide three oh
nine per gallon. In the Pond Beaches your average price
three to twin twenty three and Martin Well blow out
the state average at three oh four and in Indian
River County right there at the state average at three

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pin oh nine per gallon,