Flying on private jets OK — but not for free — under proposed new Florida House rules
Less than a week after shaking up the Florida House’s committee apparatus, incoming Speaker Daniel Perez is laying out new rules and procedures he believes will tighten the chamber’s operations while affording its members more flexibility.
Among the changes: allowing House members to fly on private planes, even if they’re owned by lobbyists or companies seeking legislative action, as is allowed today for Florida Senate members.
House members today are under a “blanket prohibition” barring flights on private planes if the aircraft is owned by a company with business before the Legislature. The same ban doesn’t apply to Senate members, which Perez said is an unfair, unnecessary impediment to l...
