Legislative Update

What a wonderful week we had visiting the State Capitol Building and many of our Legislators!  Our busy day began with a “Know Before You Go” briefing with donuts and coffee. We broke down into Teams and took off to the capitol building.

Our visitations took us to 12 different Legislators to discuss many items.  The American Legion’s first priority was funding for our Boy’s State/Girl’s State program.  This is through a higher education appropriation which offsets costs and is paid directly to Florida State University.  This appropriation helps us keep our costs per delegate at a reduced rate.

While many of the bills were discussed, with each legislator we focused more on our relationships with each of them.  Brainstorming on ideas of possible future legislation and appropriations was discussed.

Here is a list of legislators that we met with:

  • Representative Duggan
  • Representative Smith
  • Representative Benjamin
  • Representative Gregory
  • Representative Snyder
  • Representative Giallombardo
  • Representative Casello
  • Representative Holcomb
  • Representative Dunkley
  • Senator Burgess
  • Senator Torres
  • Alex Vargo, External Affairs Director for The Speaker of House

Click here for legislation that is being tracked with the actions under each item of where the bill is currently sitting.

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