{"id":194312,"date":"2026-03-17T01:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194312\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:37:13","slug":"several-north-central-florida-bills-fail-to-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194312\/","title":{"rendered":"Several North Central Florida bills fail to pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Not every bill with impacts here in North Central Florida made it out of this legislative session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The decoupling bill that would separate horse track licenses from their owners\u2019 casino operations passed the House but never moved in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a statement from the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders\u2019 &amp; Owners\u2019 Association, officials say they will remain vigilant if the bill is brought up during the upcoming special session, when leaders work to finalize the state budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bill to restore the Ocklawaha River easily passed the House, but a companion bill died in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Senator Jennifer Bradley\u2019s bill to permit a form of plastic straws where cities had banned them died in committee.<\/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; Not every bill with impacts here in North Central Florida made it out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4232,49925,28,8948,4215,90328,712,15328,50709,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-194312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-bills","tag-decoupling","tag-florida","tag-florida-house-of-representatives","tag-florida-senate","tag-florida-thoroughbred-breeders-owners-association","tag-law","tag-laws","tag-tallahasee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194312","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=194312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}