Ron DeSantis says business couldn't handle 'patchwork' of local heat protections for workers
Florida’s Governor is trying to cool down the temperature when it comes to a preemption law (HB 433) blocking local governments from protecting private sector employees from the state’s brutal heat.
The issue, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis: Local control would create a regulatory “patchwork” that would have befuddled the capital class.
“It preempted local governments,” DeSantis said, adding that the state has a “regular framework” including “what we didn’t want.”
“You don’t want a patchwork of, like, Miami-Dade has all this and then you go to Collier and then it’s totally different because people are doing business in multiple jurisdictions in this state,” DeSantis explained at Mo’s Bagel a...
