{"id":152578,"date":"2026-02-12T05:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152578\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:07:08","slug":"florida-house-of-representatives-approves-decoupling-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152578\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida House of Representatives approves decoupling bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The \u201cdecoupling\u201d bill in Tallahassee that worries many in the horse capital was approved by the House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bill was approved by a vote of 77-34.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Among Marion and Levy County representatives, only Judson Sapp voted for it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It would remove a requirement for a racing license holder to run live races in order to keep their gambling operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A companion bill in the Senate has not moved, and it is uncertain whether the House bill will gain traction in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The \u201cdecoupling\u201d bill in Tallahassee that worries many in the horse capital was approved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5238,49925,28,14590,4737,55152,36127,3833,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-152578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-bill","tag-decoupling","tag-florida","tag-gambling","tag-horses","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-levy-county","tag-marion-county","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}