en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjournment_sine_die
“I don’t think it’s healthy for the process (for us) to stay here and continue to talk about something that neither side is changing their view on,” Crisafulli said.
“Hopefully, the Senate president and I can sit down and figure out how to determine when we’re going to come back and hold a (special) session,” he added.”
We don’t think it healthy to have green toxic algae at our doorstep. Its defiantly not healthy. We know that for sure.
“Why?
There are two main reasons the House and Senate budget proposals were so different: a $2.2 billion federal-state hospital funding program known as the Low Income Pool, and Medicaid expansion. The LIP program provides funding to hospitals that treat large numbers of uninsured and Medicaid patients. It is scheduled to end June 30 under an existing agreement with the federal government. The Senate proposed a successor program and assumed the money would come through. The House did not include any LIP money in its budget. What’s more, the Senate’s proposed budget included $2.8 billion in federal Medicaid expansion money to provide health care coverage to more than 800,000 low-income Floridians. The House has long opposed that idea, likening it to an endorsement of Obamacare. Over the course of the session, the two sides refused to back off of their positions. They dug in even deeper this month when the federal government said it was more likely to approve a LIP successor if Florida expanded Medicaid.”
“What happens in a special session?
During a special session, the only legislative business allowed must be restricted to what was stated in the proclamation filed with the Secretary of State, in a communication from the governor, or in the consent approved by three-fifths of both chambers. Because this upcoming special session must address the budget, it will touch on many issues that are tied to state funding. That should make it more of a mini-regular session than a special session. Unrelated topics — such as how much will lawmakers steer into land acquisition from the use of Amendment 1 dollars — won’t get resolved now until special session. It also means lawmakers can negotiate anything into the session using the umbrella of the budget.”
Don’t worry! They’ll just come back to do their job.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/special-session-special-costs
at a great cost to all of us. Crimany! What if Rick Scott takes our 49 bucks back?
Maybe instead of fishes we need to send:
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http://www.tcpalm.com/news/state/house-adjourns-session-three-days-early_33936987
TALLAHASSEE — The House quit session three days early, likely killing a controversial water bill while putting in limbo discussions on environmental spending under Amendment 1 and whether to buy land to send Lake Okeechobee water south.
Here’s a little music to read by.
With budget negotiations with the Senate stalled because of an impasse over health care funding and Medicaid expansion, Speaker Steve Crisafulli sent surprised members home Tuesday.
Lawmakers will reconvene this summer to pass a state budget before June 30, when they have to also decide how to use more than $740 million available through Amendment 1, approved by 75 percent of voters last year to buy, restore and manage land and water resources.
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Florida-House-Session-Adjourns-3-Days-Early-301574831.html
Republicans in the two chambers are at odds over healthcare funding. They also disagree on who’s to blame for the deadlock.
“We sent them multiple offers last week they were not willing to negotiate. We made legitimate offers. They didn’t counter with anything reasonable,” house speaker pro tempore Matt Hudson told us after the house adjourned.
Later, Senate President Andy Gardiner accused the House of refusing to cooperate.
“I think we have offered many times to get together and try to come up with solutions,” Gardiner said.
So we’ll see what happens. Please get some rest legislators.
And soon perhaps a permanent vacation.
Here is our Minority Leader, Mark Pafford. He was ready to work.
so here’s something we can do while we we’re waiting. surfs up!
cyndi lenz 