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Legislator delivers 2025 session update to Palm Beach Gardens council
Summary
An invited legislative presenter told the Palm Beach Gardens City Council that the 2025 session yielded a mix of enacted measures and defeated proposals, highlighted the end of the commercial lease tax, expansion of a condo hardening grant program, and said reserves increased to roughly $15 billion.
An invited legislative presenter briefed the Palm Beach Gardens City Council on highlights from the 2025 Florida legislative session and a special session, focusing on bills the presenter said were stopped and measures that passed. The presenter described the special session as largely devoted to blocking what they called "bad legislation," then summarized enacted items and fiscal changes.
The presenter said a controversial amnesty proposal that would have limited cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities was defeated in the senate after passage in the House, and that subsequent legislation…
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