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Capital Report: 03-25-2015

A House panel spent part of Wednesday slashing away at the government red tape that developers blame for strangling Florida’s economy. But as Jim Ash reports, an attempt to rewrite the state’s growth management laws got off to a rocky start in the House Economic Development and Tourism Subcommittee.

A bill reforming the way state prosecutors can charge juveniles as adults is starting to move in both chambers of the Florida Legislature. Sascha Cordner reports.

House Committees considered four bills today (Wednesday) relating to alcohol with vastly different outcomes. And Nick Evans reports, with committees beginning to wrap up their meetings for session that could means some measures could be left stranded.

State lawmakers are considering bills to criminalize online sexual harassment and crack down on sexting. D. A. Robin reports.

Deciding who is owed what after a divorce can be chaotic. But Regan McCarthy reports lawmakers want to bring order to the process through math. The Senate’s alimony reform bill uses a formula to decide how much a person should pay in alimony and for how long.

The great stand-off between traditional taxi-cab companies and online ride-on-demand services like Uber roared on in the Florida Legislature today.  As Keta Browning tells us, the speed bump today was public safety.