The House has unanimously passed a measure designed to increase prison sentences for child sex offenders. The bill sponsored by Rep. Berny Jacques, a Seminole Republican, increase ...
The work that more than a dozen local governments have undertaken over the past 15 years to combat climate change could be ...
A Florida lawmaker will try again to require all businesses, no matter how small, to use E-Verify, the federal online system that allows employers to confirm whether new hires are legally authorized ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Representative Berny Jacques introduced HB 197, which aims to change which businesses are required to use the E-Verify system to prove eligibility for employment, as an effort to ...
Bill sponsor Rep. Berny Jacques, R-Seminole, said he views it as a way to enforce laws banning employers from hiring workers who don't have proper documentation. E-Verify is a federal online platform ...