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Sprowls: Florida state colleges must offer money-back job guarantees on three programs
“So now if you go to a state college in Florida, they have to offer at least three certifications or technical degrees where they say, if you come and you get this certificate, And you are not working in that field in six months. We'll give you your money back.…”
Sprowls: Only 14% of Florida State Prison Inmates Are There for Drugs
“Only 14% of the people in state prison in Florida are there for drugs.”
Sprowls: Florida repealed Certificate of Need regulations to break hospital monopolies
“So what we did in, in Tallahassee was first we had, you know, repealing of, you know, massive government regulations like CON, which created monopolies for hospitals.”
Sprowls: No Florida House Member Lost Reelection After Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
“We had a huge debate about Medicaid expansion, where the Florida House had said, we're not gonna expand Medicaid. Because it doesn't help the most vulnerable in our community. That's not who it helps. We're going to focus on them. And the hospital associations…”
Sprowls: Florida School Choice Bill Added 1.5M Eligible Students
“When we passed this bill, there's an extra one and a half million kids who qualify for school choice who didn't qualify before.”
Sprowls: Florida passed Parents' Bill of Rights granting full curriculum access
“One of the ways we tried to combat that this past year is we passed a sweeping parents bill of rights, right? To make sure that parents have the, they understand that they have the right to get the entire curriculum.”
Sprowls: Florida created all-payer claims database for healthcare price transparency
“So we did an all-payer, all-payer claims database, which I think is the biggest in the country, where we said, let's get, let's tell the patient as granular as possible how much their surgery or procedure is going to cost.”
Sprowls: Florida House Unanimously Passed Canadian Drug Importation Despite Pharma Attacks
“You know, the pharmaceutical companies came in hot and heavy because we wanted to open up markets in Canada to importation of drugs, right? They were blasting us on, on TV, Wall Street, going after us all over the place. But basically they attacked us, and the…”
Sprowls: Florida created 'Portraits in Patriotism' to teach civics via interviews
“So we rolled out this program last year we passed called Portraits and Patriotism. And what it does is it's modeled off of the Holocaust Museum where they did the interviews with Holocaust survivors about what it was like to be in concentration camps. And then…”
Sprowls predicts risk assessment will highlight cybersecurity and coastal flooding
“I believe that you're going to see massive risks in cybersecurity. I think you're gonna see massive risks in coastal flooding, both of which are two issues that we looked at last year and had some significant movement on.”