{"id":154085,"date":"2026-02-13T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154085\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:25:08","slug":"ocklawaha-river-restoration-bill-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/154085\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocklawaha River Restoration bill advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; In Tallahassee, a bill to un-dam the Ocklawaha River is ready for a full vote on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 17-1 to advance the bill, moving it past the final committee hurdle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Senator Stan McClain of Marion County was the only \u201cNo\u201d vote on the bill to unblock the Kirkpatrick Dam and drain the Rodman Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A companion bill is ready for a vote on the full House floor.<\/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; In Tallahassee, a bill to un-dam the Ocklawaha River is ready for a full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5238,74311,4215,712,3833,52471,8755,30903,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-154085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-bill","tag-dam","tag-florida-senate","tag-law","tag-marion-county","tag-ocklawaha","tag-river","tag-stan-mcclain","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154085","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=154085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}