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Workplace gender identity bill clears House committee<\/p>\n
Chris Young reports<\/a> that some opponents of the bill say it discriminates against the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n Bill advances to restrict minors\u2019 access to health care services without parental consent<\/p>\n House Bill 173 would ban physicians from treating minors for sexually transmitted infections, mental health conditions, and substance abuse without parental consent.<\/p>\n The Florida House passes a bill to increase transparency on state conservation deals<\/p>\n The bill would require a month\u2019s notice if conservation land is sold or traded, and justification for why it is not needed.<\/p>\n A Medicaid managed care program for people with disabilities is under review<\/p>\n The Medicaid program hopes to eliminate lengthy waitlists for services, and is backed by House Speaker Daniel Perez.<\/p>\n The Florida House passed a bill to impose tougher qualifications for unemployment benefits<\/p>\n The bill would disqualify anyone who does not contact a minimum number of employers a week, and those who don\u2019t return to work when recalled after layoffs.<\/p>\n The Scoop: Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Mackenzie Queen.<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0 Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workplace gender identity bill clears House committee Chris Young reports that some opponents of the bill say it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1563,76680,6584,3294,1432,13120,30415,36512,135,137,136,416,76681,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-159981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-gender-identity","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-land-conservation","12":"tag-lgbtq","13":"tag-medicaid","14":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","15":"tag-state-government","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-the-scoop","20":"tag-unemployment-benefits","21":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159981","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=159981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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