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Capital Report: 04-10-2015

Ratcheting up tension with Governor Rick Scott, lawmakers are plunging ahead with a plan to allow electronic voter registration in Florida. As Jim Ash reports, the move comes despite a warning from the state’s top elections officer.

It’s a year of disruption in Florida. Bills targeting the ride-share service Uber, and the room share system Air B&B are moving. Craft Brewers are challenging major distributors for dominance and now, as Lynn Hatter reports, some doctors are getting in the disruptive spirit by kicking traditional health insurance to the curb.

A bill allowing people to carry a gun without a concealed carry permit during a declared emergency evacuation is now heading to Governor Rick Scott. Sascha Cordner reports.

After passing two committees without resistance a measure billed as online labeling is drawing stiff criticism.  Nick Evans reports that’s because the True Origin of Digital Goods Act appears to preempt federal copyright law.

Senator Dwight Bullard of Miami-Dade has been trying for years to have Florida regulate plastic bags, with little success. But as Matthew Seeger reports, the legislature has approved a similar bill sponsored by Bullard that may do the next best thing- allow individual communities to create their own policies.

A measure aimed at opening skate parks up to more young people is skating through the legislature. Regan McCarthy has more…