“Unfriendly” amendments rarely pass on the House floor, much less to bipartisan applause. Still, most of Florida’s Representatives came together to gut a bill that would loosen financial requirements on local officials.

Rep. Alex Andrade, a Pensacola Republican, said the change effectively killed his bill (HB 735), which also aimed to prohibit public officials from soliciting gifts from foreign entities. After passage of an amendment on the floor filed by fellow Republican Rep. Spencer Roach, the bill sponsor yanked the legislation from House consideration this year.

Bills die frequently toward the end of the Legislative Session, but the life of this legislation played out in unusual fashion...

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