State Sen. Don Gaetz has been appointed by Senate President Jeff Atwater to head the Senate Select Committee on Florida’s Economy. According to Atwater: “The mission of this Select Committee on Florida’s Economy is to create incentives and eliminate disincentives to economic recovery and growth…and to ensure that government functions more simply, more transparently, less expensively, and more effectively.”
Here are its members: Chair: Senator Don Gaetz (R), Vice Chair: Senator Jeremy Ring (D), Sen. JD Alexander (R), Sen. Michael S. “Mike” Bennett (R), Sen. Dan Gelber (D), Sen. Mike Haridopolos (R), Sen. Anthony C. “Tony” Hill, Sr. (D), Sen. James E. “Jim” King, Jr. (R), Sen. Ken Pruitt (R), Sen. Garrett S. Richter (R), Sen. Eleanor Sobel (D).
Gaetz’s other assignments include: Policy and Steering Committee on Commerce and Industry, Chair
Health Regulation, Chair
Policy and Steering Committee on Social Responsibility
Policy and Steering Committee on Ways and Means
Education Pre-K – 12
Health and Human Services Appropriations
Rules
What about our other state senator, Durell Peaden: Health and Human Services Appropriations, Chair
* Policy and Steering Committee on Commerce and Industry
* Policy and Steering Committee on Ways and Means
* Agriculture
* Commerce
* Judiciary
* Military Affairs and Domestic Security
* Joint Legislative Sunset Committee