{"id":337604,"date":"2026-07-12T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T13:15:08","slug":"former-nfl-quarterback-state-senator-attend-ceremonial-signing-of-teddy-bridgewater-act-in-miami-gardens-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337604\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL quarterback, state senator attend ceremonial signing of \u2018Teddy Bridgewater Act\u2019 in Miami Gardens &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The former National Football League quarterback Teddy Bridgewater celebrated a new Florida law bearing his name at a ceremonial signing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Teddy Bridgewater Act\u2019 allows high school coaches to spend up to $15,000 of their own money on food, transportation, and recovery services for players.<\/p>\n<p>The law was officially <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/politics\/florida-signs-teddy-bridgewater-act-into-law-allowing-hs-coaches-to-pay-for-certain-things\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater joined Florida state senator Shevrin Jones for the ceremony in Miami Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The former National Football League quarterback Teddy Bridgewater celebrated a new Florida law&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-337604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337604","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=337604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}